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REPORT ON THE L 
BRARY FOR 1936 
Dr. C. Stuart GAGER, DIRECTOR, 
Sir: 1 submit herewith my report for the year ending December 
51, 1956, 
ACCESSIONS 
The collections at present comprise 35,230 pieces, of which 
number 19,300 are volumes and 15,930 are pamphlets, an increase 
of 530 volumes and 552 pamphlets or 1,082 pieces during 1936. 
Volumes purchased totaled 157; volumes bound accounted for 265 
of the 530 accessioned. Gifts during the year were 86 volumes, 
329 pamphlets, and 713 parts. The list of donors is included in 
Appendix I. 
Of periodicals and other serials the library received 734 as 
exchanges, 84 as gifts, 145 as purchases, and 7 through publication 
by the Garden making a total of 970 titles. 
List of some important accessions 
Apuleius Platonicus or Barbarus. Herbal of Pseudo-Apuleius .. . fac- 
simile, described . yy Dr. F. W. T. Hunger. Leyden, 1935. 
Bower, I. O. Primitive fei plants... London, 1935. 
Brosse, Guy de la. Description du ne) roval des plantes medecinales, 
estably par le roy Louis le juste, a Paris... aris, L636 
Culpeper, Nicholas. The English oe enlarged... London, 1653. 
Darwin, Erasmus. Zoonomia; or, the Laws of organic life, London, 1801. 
Dodge, C. W. Medical mycology ... St. Louis, 1935. 
Dugegar, B. M. and others. Biological effects of radiation... New York, 
3 
Dutrochet, R. J. H. L’Agent immédiat du mouvement vital... Paris, 
1826. 
Edgeworth, M. P. Pollen. London, 1877. 
Farrer, Reginald. Alpines and bog plants. London, 1908. 
Grieve, Mrs. M. A Modern herbal... London, 1931. 
Herbert, W ie Amaryllidaceae ... London, 1837. 
Hermann, Paul. Horti Academicit Lugduno-Batavi ... 1687. 
Hine, Mrs. W. R. New flower arrangements. New York, 1936 
Jung, Joachim. Doxoscopiae physicae minores ... Hamburg, 1662. 
Linné, Carl von. Disquisitio de quaestione ... sexum plantarum... Pe- 
tropoli, 1760. 
———, Flora Jamaicensis ... Upsala, 1759. 
Orbis eruditi judicium ... Stockholm, oie 
Linnean Society of London. Proceedings. 1838-1914. 
