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(iiirdcn. When 1 arrived, there were in tlie lil)rary 3,804 volumes 

 and 5,S85 ])am])hlels. There were 224 serial inil)Iicati()ns re- 

 ceived rei^ularly, 150 of these l)ein<4- received in exchant^'e. Thir- 

 teen years later the volumes in the librarv number 14,003, and 

 the pamphlets 9,863. There are 950 titles in our cm-rent serial 

 and ])eri()(lical file, of which 685 are received in exchanj^e. Xot all 

 of these serials issue numbers each year, but in 1(^28 the librarv 

 received numbers or parts of ^yj serials and i)eriodicals aggregat- 

 '"."' 7'3Vc> separate i)ieces. Jm-oui January to June, 1929, num- 

 ])ers or i)arts totalling 3,378 were received from 607 serials and 

 periodicals. 



"Idle readers in the library for 1915 numbered 1,027, while 

 the number for 1928 was 6,283. l^iooks lent to members of the 

 Garden staff numbered 246 in 1915. and 1,101 in 1928. 



" h^or the ten-year ])eriod covering 1916-1926, 2,135 volumes 

 were sent to the bindery, h'or the ])erio(l covering 1927-1929, 

 2,619 volumes were bound. In the main, the volumes bound in 

 1927-1929 were serials, thousands of agricultural ex])eriment 

 station ])ublications and L'. S. documents. 



In these thirteen years the aim of the director and the librarian 

 has been to coiuplete the files of ])erio(licals, serials and society 

 transactions, ddie library today is rich in these comi)leted sets, 

 many of which, as \\-ell as the greater number of the works in 

 ur special collection of incunabula and Pre-Tdnnaean works, were 

 chased wdth the income from the T)enjamin Stuart Gager 

 Memorial b\md, given for this ]nu-i)ose. 



" Attention may be called to the ])hysical ex])ansiou of the 

 library. In 1917 the library moved from the (jue room wdiich it 

 had ()ccu])ied to its i)resent Cjuarters, consisting of a main reading- 

 room with its shelves of hooks and serials, two stack-rooms and a 

 library office which also serves as a work room. 



" The ])rincipal piece of work we set before us for accomplish- 

 ment during 1929 was the binding of as many agricultural experi- 

 ment station ])ul)Hcations as i)ossihle. From January to June. 

 1,282 volumes, of which 421 were serials and 861 agricultural 

 experiment station jjublications, were forwarded to the binder. 

 In order to bind into volumes the agricultural exi)eriment sta- 

 tion annual reports, bulletins, circulars, etc.. 10.837 ])arts were 

 collated and ]irepared for the bindery. 



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