REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN 
FOR Igtl 
Dr. C. Stuart Gacer, DirEcTor. 
Siu: I beg to submit herewith my report for the year ending 
Decenber ol. Tort: 
The Library 
At the time of my appointment, January 1, 1911, the Botanic 
Garden did not possess a book to form even the nucleus of a 
library. During this first vear of the Garden’s existence, we have 
been so limited as to space that equipment for receiving, records 
ing and shelving large numbers of books could not be con- 
sidered, so our acquisitions by purchase have consisted only of 
such books as were actually required for the conduct of the 
work of the Garden, and a small number advertised by dealers 
and which are difficult to procure, or which have been issued in 
such small editions that they may not be available when we come 
into possession of our own building, with ample room for caring 
for a growing libra 
In addition to ae s purchased, we acknowledge the gift of a 
copy of the first edition of Darwin’s “Fertilization of Orchids,” 
from Mr. Alfred 'T. White; Lindley’s “The Vegetable Kingdom,” 
from the late George C. Brackett; nine bound volumes and sev- 
enteen unbound volumes of Science, five bound volumes of Gar- 
dening, and a number of unbound miscellaneous publications, 
from Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith; Report of the Advisory Board 
of Consulting Engineers for the Improvement of State Canals 
(New York) for 1910, from Mr. R. C. Murphy; a biography of 
Carl von Linné (unbound), from Mr. J. V. Borin; twenty-three 
bound publications from the Geological Survey of New Jersey ; 
six from the U. S. Department of Agriculture; five from the U. 
S, National Herbarium, two from the U. $. National Museum ; 
one from the Maryland Weather Service; and twenty-three vol- 
umes from Dr. C. Stuart Gager, making in all a total of seventy- 
seven bound volumes presented to the Library. 
We have also secured by gift and exchange a large number of 
pamphlets on botanical subjects. ‘These include reprints and 
monographs; bulletins and reports from the various divisions of 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and from the State Agri- 
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