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Printed lists of the Bulletins and Farmers’ Bulletins of the U. 
S. Department of Agriculture were checked with such of these 
publications as we have here, and a request made for the missing 
numbers. This helped to fill in many of our gaps. 
The Garden Library has been placed on the free mailing list of 
the Smithsonian Institution to receive separates on botany, bac- 
teriology, biology, chemistry, exploration, sanitation, and insects. 
In this manner, we received forty-three publications. 
The entire pamphlet collection, numbering over 7,000, and 
alphabetically arranged by author, was revised and author guides 
were freely inserted in order to facilitate finding them. It is 
hoped that some time in the near future this entire collection 
may be arranged according to subject, as is done at the Amer- 
ican Museum of Natural History, but until this goal may be at- 
tained it was thought best, by the present arrangement, to make 
the pamphlets as easy of access as possible. 
2,062 agricultural experiment station cards have been arranged 
according to the “Key to subject index of experiment station 
literature,” issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, office 
of experiment stations. Previously our experiment station cards 
were grouped roughly according to classes. 
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, during 1917, was represented 
at the Atlantic City meeting of the Pennsylvania Library Club and 
the N. J. Library Association, at the meetings of the New York 
Library Club, and the New York Special Libraries. 
1918 
With the aid of a full-time assistant we shall hope to complete 
the greater portion of the serial shelf list and catalog (one of the 
most necessary tasks to be accomplished here), to fill up the 
gaps in our sets of periodicals, to complete our catalog of dupli- 
cates which entails a comparison of each unverified duplicate with 
the shelf list and catalog, and to prepare for the shelves the 
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station gift of 5,833 parts. 
I wish to extend to each member of the Garden staff my appre- 
ciation of the aid given to me during the past year. 
The statistical report and the list of donors follows. 
