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3 dust-proof cases and 3 portfolios, and manufactured 2,800 press- 

 board pamphlet covers for library use. 



in January a new steel cabinet was installed for the Pre-Linncan 

 collection. This cabinet, matching one already in the library, 

 rounds out the symmetrical arrangement of the reading room and 

 alleviates the former harmful overcrowding. The new cabinet was 

 immediately filled by the redistribution of books from the three 

 overcrowded cases. 



ddie Pre-Linnean collection was rearranged alphabetically by au- 

 thor in three size divisions for sextodecimos, quartos, and folios, 

 location being indicated on the catalog cards by the symbols * S, 

 *, * P respectively. This changing of call numbers on the catalog 

 cards is still in progress. Class 800 was reclassified, thus leaving 

 only class 900 and the Children's Club Room Library to be re- 

 classified. 



Additional shelving was also installed against the wall of the 

 reading room balcony. Four wooden bookcases, each ol twelve 

 shelves capacity, provide for expansion in the serials collection. 



The volumes purchased in 193') with the money given by the 

 Mrs. Field's Literary Club were on display April 11th when the 

 members of the Club were entertained at a tea given by the Li- 

 brary Committee of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Garden. This 

 exhibit was repeated on April 25th for the meeting of the Woman's 

 Auxiliary and for the Spring Inspection in May. From October 

 15th to December 4th the library had a display commemorating the 

 centennial of the death of the well-known American botanist, 

 Rafinesque (1783-1840). Portraits, biographies, and works by 

 Rafinesque were exhibited in the rotunda. 



Interlibrary Loans 



Rooks were loaned to: American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York; Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, Brooklyn; 

 Boyce Thompson Institute, Yonkers, N. Y. ; Brooklyn Public Li- 

 brary; Brown University, Providence, R. I.; Carnegie Institution, 

 Dept. of Genetics, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. ; Columbia University, 

 New York; Dominion Forest Service, Ottawa, Canada; Long Is- 

 land College of Medicine, Brooklyn; Mountain Lake Biological 

 Station, Va. ; New Jersey Public Library Commission, Trenton, 

 N. L; New York University, Washington Square Library; Charles 



