neighboring state ; but we believe that the instances mentioned will 

 suffice to give a better and clearer idea of the reference work the 

 library is doing in its own community and outside of it. 



Accessions 



Among tin- C22 relumes received during the veat ire n num- 

 ber of important monographs, and other interesting works. 

 Among these may be mentioned: Handbook of Crocus and Col- 

 cliicum, by E. A. Bowles I'm , i,A!,i / umograph'n \1\ ologiea, 

 Cheeseman's Illustrations of the Neve Zealand Flora; The Genus 

 Iris by W. R. Dykes; Gardner's Orcharding; Genetic Studies of 

 Genius; K osi ye tier's Plant Respiration ; 'I he Magnolias, by |. G. 

 Mill 1 < • il <" < - t mi \i ddo ngi a 11 j ; Pepoon's 



Annotated Flora of Hie Chicago Area; Rehder's Manual of Cul- 

 liral II, it' >lt> i -In ui< ' 1 10 I of 



Great Cities, Th Uneri a) Oai b ill in 1 .1 1 



Walcott's North American Wild Flowers was presented to the 

 library by Miss Harriet H. White; and John Fisk Allen's Victoria 

 Rcgia, illustrated by William Sharp, was donated by the Long- 

 Island Historical Society. 



Among the titles added to the Pre-Linnean Collection is one 

 belonging to the incunabula, and six titles from sixteenth century 

 pr ;ses fhese ir< Lb< Of \ h'ltralium Couimodorun l>< I Virus 

 de Crescentius, 1495; Dioscorides' Dc Medicinal i Materia Libri 

 Sex, Joanne Ruellis Inter prcie, Lyons, 1550; Hieronymus Bock's 

 Krcutcr buck, darinn Underscheidt, Strassburg, 1 5 5 1 ; the De 

 Historia Stirpium Conmientarii Insigues, by L. Fuchs, Lugduni, 

 1 551; Conrad Gesner's Thesaurus Fuonyuii Philialri, de Remediis 

 secretis, Lugduni, 1554; Cristoval Acosta's Tractado delas Drogas 

 y Mediciuas de las Indias Orientates, Burgos, 1578; and Trattato 

 di Christoforo Acosta Africano Medico . \ . 1585, being the first 

 Italian translation, printed in Venetia. 



Thirty-seven volumes were added to the Boys' and Girls' Club 

 Room Collection, bringing the total to 199 volumes. 



There are approximately 2,364 volumes in the Overflow Col- 

 lection shelved in the lower stack room. 862 volumes were trans- 

 ferred from the main collection to the Overflow during the year. 



