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1665-1800, 18 vols.; Miller, Gardener's and Botanist's Dictionary, 

 4 vols. ; Linnean Society of New South Wales, Proceedings, 6 

 vols.; Natural History of New York, 17 vols.; Nyt Magazin for 

 Naturvidcnskabemc, 5 vols.; The Phytologist, 17 vols.; Societe 

 Royale de Botanique de Belgique, Bulletin, 6 vols. ; Royal Society 

 of South Africa, Transactions, 9 vols. ; Thome, Flora von Deutsch- 

 land, Oesterreich und dcr Schweiz, 13 vols.; Tournefort, P., 

 Demonstrations Elementaircs de Botanique, 12 vols. ; U. S. Dept. 

 of Agriculture, Report of the Secretary, 3 vols.; U. S. National 

 Museum, Reports, 21 vols.; Wood & Evans, Natal Plants, 6 vols. 



We have added to the pre-Linnaean collection nine titles, includ- 

 ing one incunabulum, all of which have been purchased with the 

 income from the Benjamin Stuart Gager Memorial Fund given 

 primarily for this purpose. We list them herewith : 



Alpini, De Plantis Exoticis, 1656; Arnoklus de Nova Villa, 

 Tractatus de Virtutibus Hcrbarum [1499] ; Clusius, Caroli Clusii 

 Atrcbatis . . . Exoticorum Eibri Decern, 1605 ; Clusius, Rariorum 

 Plantarum Historia, 1601 ; Fuchs, Plantarum Effigies . . ., 1552 ; 

 Linne, Hortus Cliff ortianus, 172,7', Lobel, Icones Stirpium sen 

 Plantarum tarn Exoticorum, 1591 ; Ortus Sanitatis, 1536; Plinius 

 Secundus, Cajus, Historia Mundi Naturalis, 1582. 



Eight volumes of the earlier annual reports were received from 

 the New Hampshire Plorticultural Society ; sixteen volumes from 

 the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station; seven from Maine; 

 the 1st, 2d, 3d, 7th, nth, 12th from Colorado; and four annual 

 reports covering the years 1 896-1 900 from Wyoming. 



Periodicals 



The current periodical file has been enlarged by sixty-nine new 

 titles, thus making the total number received in the library 598. 

 The interesting fact in connection with the new titles is that 57 of 

 the 69 are forwarded us through the initiation of exchanges with 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden publications, and that five of these are 

 subscriptions. 



Some of the new titles are : Publications of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington ; Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, as well as the Pocket Natural History, Botanical 



