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is but one instance of the utilization of the library’s resources for 
work of immediate practical value. 
Exchange of duplicate material with other libraries secured 
273 items. 
Reclassification was completed during the year, save for the 
Children’s Club Room Library, on which work was begun. The 
reading room was painted during July. In December air-raid 
precautionary measures included having boxes made for the 
storage of the rare books and listing these books so that records 
could be quickly compiled should the necessity of immediate 
storage arise. 
In June the Works Progress Administration’s binding project 
was discontinued due to budgetary readjustments. Since the 
beginning of 1941 436 volumes had been bound and 2,000 pam- 
phlet covers made. Altogether since 1939 this project had bound 
a total of 1,279 volumes and made 4,800 pamphlet covers for 
the library. 
On April 21st the Library Committee of the Woman's Auxiliary 
of the Garden gave a tea for the staff of the Central Branch of the 
Brooklyn Public Library, our newly acquired neighbor. On dis- 
play were some of the early Herbals and illustrated botanical 
works. 
INTERLIBRARY LOANS 
Books were loaned to: Boyce Thompson Institute, Yonkers, 
N. Y.; Brown University, Providence, R. I.; Carnegie Institution 
of Washington, Dept. of Genetics, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I.; 
Columbia University, New York; Consolidated Edison Co., New 
York; E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Experimental Station, 
Wilmington, Del.; New York Botanical Garden; New York Uni- 
versity, Washington Square Library; Princeton University, 
Princeton, N. J.; Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 
New York and Princeton, N. J.; E. R. Squibb & Co., Brooklyn; 
Toronto University, Toronto, Canada; United ait Co., New 
York; U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; William R. 
Warner & Co., New York. 
Books were borrowed from: Brooklyn Museum; Brooklyn 
