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LIBRARY 
The rapidly growing library of the Garden comprises at present 
about 23,000 volumes and about 21,000 pamphlets. This is not 
a circulating library, but is open free for consultation to all per- 
sons daily (except Sundays and holidays) from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. 
(Saturdays, 9 to 12). More than 1,000 periodicals and_ serial 
publications devoted to botany and closely related subjects are 
normally received. These include the transactions of scientific 
societies from all quarters of the globe; the bulletins, monographs, 
reports, and other publications of various departments of the 
United States Government, as well as those of foreign govern- 
ments, and of all state agricultural experiment stations and agri- 
cultural colleges; the publications of research laboratories, uni- 
versities, botanic gardens, and other scientific institutions of the 
world, as well as the files of independent journals devoted to the 
various phases of plant life. The library is specially rich in pub- 
lications of foreign countries and has a growing collection of 
incunabula and other pre-Linnaean works. 
Bibhographical assistance is rendered to readers by members of 
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the Library staff. 
An annotated list of the incunabula, pre-Linnaean works, old 
herbals, and other rare or historically important books in the Li- 
brary was published as the July, 1935, number of the Botanic 
Garden Recorp. Copies are for sale at 40 cents each, post free. 
