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enabled to devote more of her time to the larger tasks of the 
library. For example, preparing a tentative list of foreign scien- 
tific societies in order to extend our exchange list ; making greater 
progress with the serial shelf list than has been the case in the 
two preceding years; cataloging the greater part of the Griffiths 
collection, and revising the pamphlet collection and its catalog. 
Fic. 13. Brooklyn Botanic Garden French war orphan fund. Filling 
a German helmet with pennies at the children’s rose arch. The helmet 
was captured by one of the children’s garden “ boys,’ who saw service in 
rance 
Accessions 
Among the larger accessions secured by purchase, the most im- 
portant is the Griffiths collection. In this way we secu 18 
volumes of the original edition of Saccardo’s invaluable ee 
Fungorum.” Other publications added to the library are: 31 
volumes of the Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Kew, England; 23 volumes of the Proceedings 
-of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston; 34 
volumes of the Annals of the Jardin Botanique, Buitenzorg ; The 
Orchid Album, 11 volumes; Revie Horticole, 5 volumes; Biologia 
