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Rendus, de ’ Académie des Sciences de Paris, in cloth, covering 
the years 1904, and 1906-1913, in seven volumes; Zeitschrift fiir 
Pflanzenkrankheiten, in cloth, 1908-1912, in five volumes; Be- 
richte der Deutschen botamischen Gesellschaft, beginning with 
1883 through 1909, in one-half morocco, in twenty-six volumes, 
and for 1910-1912 in paper-covered numbers; the Encyclopaedia 
Britannica, Handy Volume Issue, 11th ediione in library buck- 
rum, in twenty-nine volumes; Proceedings of the Society for 
Horticuliural Science, cloth bound, eleven volumes, covering the 
period 1903-1914; Bailey's Standard Cyclopaedia of Horticul- 
ture, new edition, four volumes. 
Gifts 
The large gifts of the year have been received from Mrs. Clar- 
ence R. Hyde, seventy-four volumes; fourteen volumes from the 
Long Island Historical Society Library ; other gifts were received 
as follows: Vinton’s Address at the Inauguration of the Hunt 
Botanical Garden in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1855; Report on the Work 
of the Agricultural Experiment Stations, 1914, from the United 
States Department of Agriculture; Pammel’s Major John F. 
Lacy, Memorial Volume; Report of the 15th Expedition of the 
Harvard School of Tropical Medicine to South America; Stuart’s 
Voorbereidende Onderzoekingen ten Dienste van de Selektie der 
Theeplant; Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1915 ; 
Murrill’s Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms; Rogers’ Introduc- 
tion to the Study of South Australian Orchids; Robbins’ Ethno- 
botany of the Tewa Indians; Rio de Janeiro, Jardim Botanico 
Archivos ; Cook’s Economic Plants of Porto Rico. A complete 
list of donors is given below (pp. 77-79). 
While there have not been as many volumes received through 
exchange, we may enumerate the Massachusetts Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station, Annual Reports, covering the years 1908-15; 
American Philosophical Society, Proceedings, 1914-15, as well as 
the General Index for volumes 1-50, 1838-1911 ; Ottawa, Canada, 
Dominion Experimental Farms, Reports from the Various Divi- 
sions; New York Zoological Society, Annual Reports for 1915, 
and from the New York State Library, thirty volumes of the 
New York State botanist’s reports, from the first volume begin- 
