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amounts to about one half the total funds available. Several 
invaluable and expensive sets are lacking from our shelves, and 
they are becoming rarer and more expensive annually. It has 
not been possible to carry on the scientific investigations of the 
past year without numerous borrowings from other libraries, 
even from other states. 
I have elsewhere indicated the need of a fund of at least $5,000 
for immediate expenditure. An itemized statement of how such 
a fund could at once be used to advantage will be gladly sub- 
mitted to any one interested. The sum named is a conservative 
one. The occupancy of our permanent and commodious quarters 
early next spring will remove the embarrassment to rapid and 
large expansion which has hitherto obtained. 
Herbarium 
Accessions—A total of 5,325 herbarium specimens have been 
accessioned, 3,032 being phanerogams and 2,293 cryptogams. Of 
these, 2,999 were obtained by purchase, 880 by collection, 468 by 
exchange, and 978 by gift. In January we received from Dr. E. 
B. Southwick, for about thirty years entomologist of Central 
Park, New York, his entire herbarium collection estimated at 
about 30,000 specimens. 
New Cases-—Mention was made in my preceding annual re- 
port of the need of at least four new double-faced metal cases to 
care for the anticipated increase in our collections during 1916. 
In November orders were placed for three of these cases, two 
to be purchased from corporate stock, and one from the tax 
budget funds. 
Needs—As noted last year, the work of. mounting and other 
physical care of the herbarium collection is sufficient to justify 
the appointment of a herbarium assistant on full time. Several 
thousand specimens are still unmounted in addition to the 30,000 
presented by Dr. Southwick. With only a part of the time of an 
assistant available, it has been possible to mount only a few over 
4,000 specimens during the year. Additional herbarium cases 
are also needed. 
