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Some of the larger sets acquired during the year were the 
Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, 11 vols.; Atts 
dell’ Istituto Botanico dell’ Universita di Pavia, 11 vols.; Board 
of Scientific Advice for India, Annual Report, 17 vols.; Bulletin 
de la Société Botanique de France, 29 vols.; Magyar ie ante 
Lapok (Ungarische Botanische Blatter), 17 vols.; Philosophical 
Transactions, of the Royal Society of London, series B, 34 vols.; 
Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of 
Science, Halifax, 29 vols.; Proceedings of the Biological Society 
of Washington, 11 vols.; Proceedings of the Royal Society of 
London, 40 vols.; Publications of the Carnegie Institution of 
Washington, 47 vols.; Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen-Flora von 
Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz, 18 vols.; Verhand- 
lungen des Botanischen Vereins der Proving Brandenburg, 64 
vols. 
Chief among the rarities purchased with the income from the 
Benjamin Stuart Gager Memorial Fund may be mentioned 
Arnoldus De Nova Villa, Incipit Tractatus De Virtutibus Her- 
barum, Vinceciae, 1491. The other additions to our Pre-Linnaean 
collection, acquired in the same way, were Nicolas Monardes, 
Simplicium Medicamentorum Ex Novo Orbe Delatorum ... , 
1579; Joannes Baptista Porta, Phytognomonica In Quibus Nova 
.. + , 1591; Prosper Alpinus, Prosperi Alpini De Plantis Aegypti 
Liber... , 1640; Anselm Boetius De Boot, Florum, Herbarum 
. , 1640; Ulyssis Aldrovandus, Dendrologiae Naturalis... , 
TOT 
Through the courtesy of the Long Island Historical Society ove 
seventy volumes were donated by Mr. William J. Studwell in 
memory of Henry A. Studwell, M.D. Included in this gift is 
the historically interesting volume entitled Vestiges of the Natural 
History of Creation, published anonymously but generally under- 
stood to have been written by Robert Chambers. 
Periodicals 
The library receives currently 709 periodical and serial titles, 
an increase of III over 1922. Exchanges now number 548, and 
subscriptions 72. Of the 111 new titles, 54 are foreign, and 
some of these are listed herewith: 
