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USE OF THE LIBRARY 
By the completion of some runs of serials, the addition of cer- 
tain historical works, as well as some of the newer publications, 
we have been able to verify citations, refer to articles, and trace 
work for the curators and students of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden more easily and rapidly than formerly. The work with 
members of the Garden and people who come for lectures or classes 
continues as usual. Many who come in for guidance to certain 
parts of the Garden and greenhouses, stay to examine books and 
periodicals. Our borrowings through the inter-library loan system 
were less, twenty-four volumes only having been lent us in 1932 
although there were thirty-five in 1931, proving how our own ma- 
terial comes nearer to meeting demands. On the other hand, 
many more requests were made for us to lend material to other 
institutions. An increasing knowledge of our collection is shown 
by the greater number of volumes loaned during the last four 
months of 1932. The following report tells how widely these 
institutions are distributed. 
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INTERLIBRARY LOANS 
Fifty-three volumes were lent to the following: Messrs. Batten, 
Barton, Durstine and Osborn, New York; Brooklyn Museum 
Library; Brooklyn Public Library; Buffalo City Hospital (Mr. 
Irving Knobloch, Botanist); Buffalo Public Library; Carnegie 
Institution of Washington, Department of Genetics, Cold Spring 
Harbor, L. I.; University of Chicago Library; Columbia Univer- 
sity Library; Flagler Memorial Library, Miami, Florida; Rev. 
Fred W. Gray, Philippi, West Virginia; Mr. Kenneth K. Mac- 
kenzie, New York; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New 
York; National Aniline and Chemical Company, Inc., New York; 
New York University; Princeton University Library; Rockefeller 
Institute for Medical Research, New York; Rutgers University 
Library, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 
Twenty-four volumes, in all, were borrowed from the American 
Museum of Natural History; Mr. Kenneth K. Mackenzie; Brook- 
lyn Museum Library; Brooklyn Public Library ; Cohnbi Uni- 
versity Library. 
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