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ning with 1867 to 1915, lacking but one volume to complete the 
set. This missing volume, No. 40, for 1886, is being advertised 
for in the “ Want Columns” of the American Library Associa- 
tion Bulletin, which reaches the desk of every library in the 
country. There is, therefore, a very good chance of filling this 
The total number of volumes in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 
Library on December 31, 1916, was 4,371. A word of explana- 
tion is necessary in order to account for the discrepancy between 
the last number in the accession book, 3,527, and the number of 
volumes said to be in the library, 4,371. This is due to the fact 
that the incorporation, as an integral part of our library, of the 
books transferred from the Brooklyn Museum in November, 
1913, to the Botanic Garden, and numbering between eight and 
nine hundred, was authorized only last fall, and they have not 
yet been accessioned. 
The total number of volumes and pamphlets on December 31, 
1916, was 11,193, as compared with 9,689 on December 31, 1915 
—an increase of 1,504 items—for the year. 
Periodicals 
Copies of the “List of Current Periodicals on File in the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Library,” prepared by my predecessor, 
Dr. Laura E. W. Benedict, and reprinted from the Botanic 
Garden Recorp, for October, 1916, were sent to the libraries of 
the American Museum of Natural History, New York Botanical 
Garden, Columbia University, New York, and Northwestern 
Universities, and to the New York Public Library; to the Brook- 
lyn Museum, Children’s Museum of Brooklyn, the John Crerar 
library, the Brooklyn Public Library, Main Branch, as well as 
to the Reference Department, and to. the Bedford, Prospect, and 
Williamsburg Branches of the Brooklyn Public Library. 
Thirty-four new periodicals have been added to the library. 
This makes a total of two hundred fifty-eight current periodicals 
received at the Garden, through subscription, exchange, gift, 
transfer, deposit, and publication, through which were received 
2,093 parts of current periodicals during the last year. Some of 
the additions are: Addisonia, Alaska Agricultural Experiment 
