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Pasteur, Louis. Examen critique d'un écrit posthume de Claude Bernard 
sur la fermentation. Paris, 1879. 
——, Memoire sur les corpuscles organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphére, 
examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées. (Annales de 
chimie et de physique. ser. 3, v. 64, 1862. p. 5-110.) 
Plinius Secundus, Cajus. The Natural history of Pliny. Translated... 
by ... John Bostock and H. T. Riley... London, 1855-1857, 6 
vols. 
Walter, Thomas. Flora Caroliniana. Londini, 1788. 
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From the income of other funds the following items were 
secured : 
Cordus, Valerius... . Annotationes in Pedacij Dioscoridis Anazarbeide 
Medica materia libros V ... Argentorati, 1561. 
Helmont, J. B. van. Oriatrike, or, Physick refined ... London, 1662. 
Rafinesque, C. S. 5S. Principes fondamentaux de somiologie ou les loix de 
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a nomenclature et de la classification de l’empire organique... 
Palerme, 4 
Vaillant, Sebastien. Discours sur la structure des fleurs .. . Leide, 1718. 
Liprary Work 
Reel vl 
ification of the library collections has proceeded during 
the year so that completion of this project is in sight. Classes 
S00 and 900, the Pre-Linnean collection, and the Children’s Club 
Room Library remain to be done. 
Exhibits of books were arranged for the meeting at the Garden 
of the American Rose Society on October 5th, and for the Con- 
ference on medicinal herbs held October 26th. All the books on 
roses, together with runs of serials dealing especially with roses, 
were placed out for the inspection of members of the Society. 
[specially commented on was a display of plant patents for new 
roses issued by the United States Patent Office. For the Con- 
ference on medicinal herbs a display of early herbals was arranged 
in cases in the rotunda and in the library. 
INTERLIBRARY [LOANS 
Books were loaned to: Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, 
srooklyn ; Carnegie Institution of Washington, Dept. of Genetics, 
Cold Spring Harbor, L. I.; Columbia University, New York; 
Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, Lexington; Long Is- 
