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The New York Library Club held its October meeting at the 
Garden, This was the first time a library association has met at 
our institution, and while the meeting was especially arranged to 
show the outdoor features, an hour was nevertheless devoted 
to brief talks by Dr. C. S. Gager and Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw on 
the various activities in which the Garden is engaged. The li- 
brarian gave a brief résumé of the collection in the library, and 
the different classes of readers who make use of it. 
The librarian lectured before the senior class of the Library 
School of the New York Public Library on “Problems of a 
Botanical Library,” on June 4, 1918. 
The Library was represented during 1918 at the meetings of 
the New York Library Club and the New York Special Libraries. 
Needs 
The library has now become much too large, is growing too 
rapidly and is too widely used to be adequately served by one 
person. To the exclusion of more important matters, the li- 
brarian’s time is now largely consumed with details that could 
well be cared for by an assistant. 
The binding of old and shabby books and of completed vol- 
umes of periodicals would make the collection more valuable to 
the staff. 
If at all possible book stacks for the balcony should be in- 
stalled at the earliest convenient date so that another year’s ac- 
cessions will not crowd the library to such an extent as to impair 
its usefulness by compelling us to shelve volumes where they 
will not be readily accessible. 
For list of donors and gifts see Appendix 2 (p. 81). The sta- 
tistical report follows. 
