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OFFICERS’ REPORTS. 
LIBRARIAN’S REPORT. 
A. W. LATHAM, MINNEAPOLIS. 
The library has received about the usual number of additions 
this year, the titles of which have been given in the “Horticulturist,” 
with the exception of a few received in the last month, which will be 
noted in an early number of the magazine. 
The additions number about sixty-five, not including the dupli- 
cates which have been received from several of the states, notably 
Wisconsin, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Nebraska and Ontario, 
and one or two extra copies from several other states. 
About eighty paper-bound volumes belonging to the permanent 
library have been bound in cloth this year, making quite an im- 
provement in the appearance of the shelves. 
The accumulation of magazines and periodicals coming into the 
office in the way of exchanges will soon call for more shelf-room, 
or the banishing in large degree of the sutplus stock of our own 
reports. The proportions reached by our library, and the labor and 
expense connected with its increase and care,is a matter which may 
well occupy your attention, and it would seem in place to ask of the 
lawmakers of our state for a small appropriation to meet this ex- 
pense. It would certainly be money well expended and yield the 
best results. 
Our permanent library now numbers about five hundred volumes, 
not including in this count any duplicates. It can be easily and 
rapidly increased by devoting some time to it, which the increasing 
duties of the secretary’s office during the past year have prevented 
my giving, as I should have wished. 
There have been sent out from the office this year, by mail or per- 
sonal delivery, a cloth bound copy of the report of 1893 to each one 
of our membership,in all about 550 copies. One hundred and 
thirty-seven packages of reports, generally three volumes in a pack- 
age, have been sent from this office by express during the past year. 
Many of the members in the state have preferred to pay the express 
charges on three volumes rather than to receive one by mail. 
ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN’S REPORT. 
E. A. CUZNER, MINNEAPOLIS. 
Horticultural reports stored at Pillsbury Hall, State University, 
Minneapolis. 
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