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the past year, however, we have set this case apart for fresh 
accessions, so that the staff may have an opportunity of examin- 
ing them. 
Accessions 
Among the accessions secured by purchase or exchange may 
be mentioned The American Monthly Microscopical Journal, 12 
volumes; The Monthly Microscopical Journal, 18 volumes; Bo- 
tanische Zeitung, 18 volumes; Journal of the Elisha Mitchell 
Scientific Society, 11 volumes; Philadelphia Academy of Natural 
Sciences, 11 NG UUEES 5 Revue Horticole, v. 59-82; Sitzungsbe- 
richte der Matl h-Natu haftlichen Klasse der K. 
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, v. 93-112. 
Of unique interest, in an historical sense, are John Gerarde’s 
“Herball” (1633), and “Nova Plantarum Genera” by Petro 
Antonio Micheli (1729), both secured by purchase; the three 
volumes of Johanne Bauhin’s “ Historia Plantarum Universalis ” 
(1640), presented by Mr. Alfred T. White; and John Parkin- 
son’s “Theatrum Botanicum,’ donated by Mrs. Joseph Epés 
Brown. The Parkinson is a complete and perfect copy of the 
first edition, London, 1640, having engraved title page, and page 
of Errata at the end. 
Included in Mrs. Brown’s gift were 23 volumes of the “ Flores 
des Serres et des Jardins de L’Europe,” and “Orchidaceae of 
Mexico and Guatemala,” by John Bateman. The latter book is 
a royal quarto, containing 40 colored plates. The preface is 
dated 1843, and only 125 copies were issued. 
We gratefully acknowledge Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith’s gift 
of 50 photographs of botanists, authors’ original drawings of 
published papers on hepatics, mosses and lichens, autograph let- 
ters of botanists and valuable manuscripts and correspondence. 
Our collection now numbers 5,578 volumes and 7,681 pam- 
phlets, a total of 13,259, not including current numbers of serial 
publications. The total number of parts added to the library 
during the past year is 4,131, as compared with 11,196 for 1917. 
The large figure for 1917, however, is due to the 5,833 parts pre- 
sented to us by the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station. 


