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Inter-library Loans 
_ During the year twenty-nine publications were loaned to the 
_American Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Foundation, Car- 
negie Institution of Washington, Columbia University, Messrs. 
Ford, Bacon & Davis of New York, and the U. S. Rubber Co., 
New York. 
The usual collection of books was forwarded to the Biological 
Laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Cold 
Spring Harbor, for their summer session. 
The Garden library borrowed forty-one books for the use of its 
staff from the American Museum of Natural History, the Brook- 
lyn Museum, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Pratt Institute Free 
Library, and the Library of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Wash- 
ington. 
Binding 
During the past year 329 volumes were bound. Among these 
were one thousand bulletins of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture and its various divisions, bound generally in lots of twenty- 
five. 
The 255 volumes mentioned in the 1920 report as having been 
forwarded to the binder were prepared for use during the early 
‘part of 192r. 
| Miscellaneous 
On September 28, Mr. Ernest Reece, Principal of the Library 
School of the New York Public Library, conducted a class of over 
forty Juniors to visit the Garden. The librarian gave a talk on 
the methods used in the organization and work of the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden Library and the arrangement of catalogs and verti- 
cal files. Tea was served in Room 330, and the Director and the 
Curator of Public Instruction both spoke of the work of the Gar- 
den. The class was then taken over the grounds by Dr. Graves. 
Since December first Miss Bessie D. Donegan has filled the posi- 
tion of library assistant, in place of Miss Helen M. Smith, trans- 
ferred to scientific assistant. 
Miss Florence C. Berry has been assisting the library, since 
October 24, from nine to twelve, dating g, embossing, and cutting 
pages of publications. Miss Berry also does the required steno- 
