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Inter-Library Loans 
Requests for the loan of publications were received from several 
scientific institutions out of the city, as well as from city institu- 
tions. Libraries of business firms have also availed themselves 
of this privilege. Twenty-one volumes were borrowed during 
the year. 
Seventy-four publications were loaned us for the use of our 
staff by the American Geographical Society, American Museum 
of Natural History, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, 
Columbia University, Cornell University, Library of Congress, 
Lloyd Library, N. Y. Public Library, and the libraries of the 
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture and the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
Miscellaneous 
Thanks is due the N. Y. State Library for forwarding us a 
case of agricultural experiment station publications among which 
were found many missing numbers from our shelves. 
The library was also successful in securing 337 early numbers 
of Annual Reports and Bulletins direct from agricultural experi- 
ment stations in response to requests for early lacking numbers. 
ists of scientific institutions and government agricultural de- 
partments were compiled for future exchanges. 
Eighty-three new subjects were added to our reference file. 
This file includes the source where the information wanted was 
found, so that repetition of work is eliminated. 
To facilitate the use of the library, 160 black letter shelf labels 
were made for serial titles, agricultural experiment stations and 
. S. publications; over 250 guides for the pamphlet collection; 
and 165 new guides for seed catalogues. 
Shelf space in the library is so limited that we were forced 
to withdraw 350 volumes, and add them to our overflow collec- 
tion in the downstairs stack room, which now totals 634 volumes. 
The Garden library was represented at the New York Library 
Club, the Annual Convention of the Special Library Association, 
and at the New York Regional Group of Cataloguers. 
For list of donors and gifts, see Appendix 1. 
The statistical report follows: 
