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Gladiolus Society, Grand Central Palace, August 25; and at the 
Long Island Flower Show under the auspices of the Second Dis- 
trict Federated Garden Clubs of New York State at Garden City, 
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September 16. 
I am continuing to serve as the District Secretary for the Ameri- 
can Rose Society. 
Respectfully submitted, 
MONTAGUE FREE, 
Horticulturist and Head Gardener. 
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN FOR 1931 
Dr. C. Sruart GAGER, DIRECTOR, 
Sir: I submit the report of the library for the year 1931. 
Accessions 
The additions to the book collection during the year aggregated 
935 volumes and 788 pamphlets, making a total of 16,775 volumes 
and 12,740 pamphlets now in the library. 
Somewhat more than half of the new accessions were received 
either as gifts or in exchange for our own publications. Special 
acknowledgement for gifts should be made to Dr. C. E. Moldenke, 
Plainfield, N. J., for fifteen early botanical textbooks and work: 
on horticulture; to Dr. Albert Lemée, Brest, France, for the third 
volume in continuation of his valuable “ Dictionnaire descriptif e 
synonymique des genres de plantes phanérogames ”; and the Hok- 
kaido Government, Sapporo, Japan, for the final sections of 
Miyabe and Kudo’s “Icones of the essential forest trees of Hok- 
kaido,” a beautifully printed work in three folio volumes wit! 
descriptive text in both 
97 volumes, 375 
The 
eighty-six plates in natural colors and 
Japanese and English. The total gifts were 
pamphlets and current issues of 118 periodicals and serials. 
complete list of donors is given in Appendix 1, pages 119-124. 
The exchange of Brooklyn Botanic Garden publications for 
those of other institutions and societies continues to be one of the 
chief methods of building up the library collection. Of 937 peri- 
odicals and serials received regularly during 1931, 688 came 
through exchange. 
