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appendix under the heading of books presented. The books on alga) 

 have since been transferred to the Botanical Department of the Calcutta 

 University as special research on the algse is being undertaken there." 

 A detailed knowledge of the deficiencies in our sets of jjeriodicals, 

 and of the complete absence from our library of certain important 

 journals not otherwise available in Calcutta, is due to the careful study 

 of Dr. S. W. Kemp, whose " Catalogue of the Scientific Serial Publica- 

 tions in the Principal Libraries of Calcutta," published by the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal in 1918 with the aid of a grant made by the Trustees 

 of the Indian Museum, is a boon of no small magnitude to all those 

 engaged in scientific research in India. Dr. Kemp has drawn up lists 

 of the deficiencies in the library of the Survey and these lists have 

 been circulated to booksellers in England, America and certain other 

 countries, with a view to rectification so far as funds permit. 



The Government of India at the end of last financial year made a 

 special grant of Rs. 3,000 to be spent on the purchase of foreign 

 periodicals which we had been unable to obtain during the war. 



N. ANNANDALE, 

 Director^ 

 Zoolo(jical iSurvef/ of India. 



