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view of Biology; the Anales of the Sociedad Cientifica Argentina ; 
Acta Botanica Fennica, and Meddelanden, of the Societas Pro 
Fauna et Flora Fennica; Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of 
South Africa; Stain Technology; Studies, Tokugawa Institute 
for Biological Research; Bulletin and Scientific Contributions 
from the Tropical Plant Research Foundation, and Bulletin and 
Transactions from the Wagner Free Institute of Science. 
Binding 
Over two hundred volumes have been forwarded for binding, 
mainly completed volumes of periodicals and serials. We hope 
to forward titles from the book collection, as well as periodical 
and serial titles during 1927. 
Inter-Library Loans 
Twenty-six volumes were borrowed for the staff from the 
Brooklyn Museum Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Cornell 
University Medical Library, Kings County Medical Library, New 
York Municipal Reference Library, New York Public Library, 
and the Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 
Thirty-seven publications were loaned during the year to the 
Biological Station, Cold Spring Harbor; Brooklyn Museum Li- 
brary; Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Ge- 
netics, Cold Spring Harbor; Columbia University; Connecticut 
(Storrs) Agricultural Experiment Station; New York Municipal 
Reference Library; Rockefeller Institute, New York; Toronto 
University ; and Union College of Schenectady, New York. 
Reference Work 
Our work in the library is thought of as primarily concerned 
with the staff, or with students, and yet we can trace a direct 
bearing of the Garden library on the economic life of our com- 
mercial community. As it happens, the firms asking for help this 
year were all located in Manhattan, with the exception of one pub- 
lishing house of Yonkers, N. Y. Requests for assistance were 
received from a number of advertising firms, a life insurance com- 
pany, several publishing houses, book shops, a chemical corpora- 
tion, and a firm of patent lawyers. 
