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the living collections and to investigations in progress, with a view 
to including plants from all parts of the world of some special 
interest, whether horticultural, economic, or scientific. From the 
last point of view it is sought to have representatives of all the 
families of the higher plants, and particularly of those genera in 
the various families which appear to suggest the primitive condi- 
tion of the family. 
HIBRARY 
The Botanic Garden library comprises at present over 11,000 
volumes and more than 8,300 pamphlets. During 1926, there 
were received current numbers of 847 periodical and serial pub- 
lications and government documents, devoted exclusively, or in 
part, to botany and various aspects of plant life and gardening. 
These include practically all of the more important botanical 
journals published. The card catalogue contains more than 35,- 
500 Torrey Botanical Club index cards and over 19,500 Index 
Algarum Universalis cards. Among special collections may be 
mentioned the following: 
The Library of Annie Morrill Smith (Mrs. Hugh M. 
Smith), from 1902 to 1905 co-editor, and from 1906 to 1911 
editor of the Bryologist. This collection comprises chiefly works 
on mosses, hepatics, and lichens, and includes many rare and im- 
portant items. 
2. A growing collection (127 volumes as of January I, 1927) 
of pre-Linnaean works, including a number of botanical incunab- 
ula. These foundational works, including numerous rare items, 
and most of the important herbals, are being built up with the in- 
come from the Benjamin Stuart Gager Memorial Fund, presented 
to the Garden in 1918 by two anonymous donors. The principal 
of this fund was originally $10,000, and has since been increased, 
by reinvestment, to $13,417.20. The annual income is used to 
purchase rare or expensive works that the library might not other- 
wise be able to afford. 
3. The pamphlet collection has been built up by purchase and 
exchange and by correspondence with investigators and_ in- 
stitutions throughout the botanical world, and is rich in authors’ 
