Centrali-Americana, Botany, 5 volumes, ed. by Godman & Salvin; 
Blum & Fischer’s “ Flora Javae,” 3 volumes. 
Original copies of the first, sixth, seventh and eighth Annual 
Reports of the Commissioners of Prospect Park were donated 
by Mr. Alfred T. White. 
Our collection now numbers 6,040 volumes and 8,655 pamph- 
lets, an increase over 1918 of 462 volumes and 974 pamphlets. 
The increase in parts of publications is 3,119, largely due to the 
purchase of the Griffiths collection. 
Periodicals 
Forty-six new periodicals were added to our current periodical 
file, among which are the Proceedings of the Royal Academy of 
Amsterdam; Annals of Applied Biology; Journal of the Arnold 
Arboretum; Transactions of the Bronx Society of Arts and 
Sciences; Annals and Bulletin of the Jardin Botanique, Buiten- 
zorg ; Agricultural Gagette of Canada; Revista de Agricultura of 
the Sociedad Agronémica de Chile; Economic Proceedings, New 
Series, and Scientific Proceedings, New Series, Royal Dublin 
Society; Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America; Geo- 
graphical Review; Contributions, New Series, from the Gray 
Herbarium, Harvard University; Bulletin of Miscellaneous In- 
formation, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England; Proceedings 
and Transactions of the Linneaty Society of London; Transac- 
tions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society; Museum 
Work; Recueil des Travaux Botaniques Néerlandais, issued by 
the Société Botanique Néerlandais; Bulletin of the Muséum 
National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris; Revie Horticole; Bulletin 
Agricole de VInstitut Scientifique de Saigon, Indochina; Trans- 
actions of the Sapporo Natural History Society; Journal of the 
Botanical Society of South Africa; Technical Notes of the Forest 
Products Laboratory, U. S. D. A. Forest Service. 
Loans 
It is interesting to note the different sources from which pub- 
lications were borrowed for the use of our staff, and we extend 
our appreciation to the following libraries for the courtesy ac- 
corded us: The Brooklyn Museum library; the Brooklyn Public 
