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Periodicals 
Thirty-seven new titles have been added to the serial collec- 
tion currently received. Among these may be mentioned: Jour- 
nal of the American Peat Society; Publications of the Graduate 
School of Tropical Agriculture and Citrus Experiment Station 
- of the University of California; Journal of the Elisha Mitchell 
Society; The Garden (London); Journal of the Horticultural 
Society of New York; Iowa Conservation; Contributions of the 
Department of Botany of Iowa State College; Journal of the 
Linnean Society; Quarterly Bulletin of the Michigan Agricul- 
tural College; Science Progress; Memorias de la Sociedad Cu- 
bana de Historia Natural, Felipe Poey; West Indian Bulletin. 
Due to the efforts of Dr. M. L. Raney, secretary of the Ameri- 
can Library Association, Committee on Importations, in coopera- 
tion with the State Department at “Washington, the library 
received from Holland the followi ing German periodicals for 
1918: Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt; Berichte der 
Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft; Flora; Jahrbiicher fiir 
Wisseneschaftliche Botanik; Zeitschrift fiir Botanik; Zeitschrift 
fiir Induktive Abstammungs- und Vererbungslehre; Zeitschrift 
fiir Pflanzenkrankheiten; Zeitschrift fiir Pfllanzensiichtung. 

Library Assistants 
The library has had its vicissitudes in attempting to secure an 
assistant. On March 1, 1918, Miss Ruth Taylor was appointed, 
but resigned on account of ill health. Two inexperienced high 
school students were then tried, Miss Johanna Boehling and Miss 
Jennie Gilligan, each giving full time alternate weeks, beginning 
with the latter part of April, 1918, until the completion of the 
school term. Miss Gilligan resigned September 1, 1918, to enter 
a more remunerative position. The librarian then remained 
without assistance until the early part of December, when Mrs. 
Burdick once more gave two hours each afternoon, typing cata- 
log cards, preparing books for the shelves and helping with rou- 
tine work in general. Miss Meyer typewrites pamphlet cards, 
cuts pages, etc., whenever possible, in addition to her corre- 
spondence work for the library. 
