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in the exchange work of the Institution. The success of this coopera- 

 tive service the past few years has been noteworthy. 



GIFTS 



There were many gifts during the year. The Philosophical Society 

 of Washington turned over to the library several thousand copies 

 of its Bulletin to be used for exchange purposes. The Geophysical 

 Laboratory presented 838 miscellaneous publications; the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 525 ; the American Art 

 Association, Anderson Galleries, 38 priced catalogs of art objects; and 

 both the Anthropological Society and the Biological Society of Wash- 

 ington, a substantial number of journals. The outstanding gift, how- 

 ever, was a collection, numbering nearly 4,500, mainly on botany, 

 that had been part of the working library of the late Dr. Frederick 

 V. Coville, chief botanist of the Department of Agriculture and hon- 

 orary curator of the division of plants in the National Museum. The 

 collection was presented by Mrs. Coville. 



Among other important gifts were. Ancient Egyptian Paintings, 

 in three volumes, by Nina M. Davies, with the editorial assistance of 

 Alan H. Gardiner, from John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; Red-Figured 

 Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in two volumes, 

 by Gisela M. A. Richter, from the Metropolitan Museum ; Catalogue 

 of Hispanic Pottery, by Alice Wilson Frothingham, and Catalogue 

 of Laces and Embroideries, by Florence Lewis May, in the collection 

 of the Hispanic Society of America, from the Society; Index Cata- 

 logue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, fourth series, 

 volume 1 (two copies), from the Army Medical Library; A Cata- 

 logue of the Collection of Martinware Formed by Frederick John 

 Nettlefold, together with a Short History of the Firm of R. W. 

 Martin and Brothers of Southhall, by Charles R. Beard, from Fred- 

 erick John Nettlefold; Nel Cinquantenario della Societa Edison, 

 1884-1934, in four volumes, edited by Giacinto Motta, from the ed- 

 itor; Gregorio Vazquez de Arce y Ceballoz, by Roberto Pizano Res- 

 trepo, from the Government of Colombia; Georg Wilhelm Steller, 

 the Pioneer of Alaskan Natural History, by Leonhard Stejneger, 

 from the author; French Arts and Letters and Other Essays, by 

 W. Francklyn Paris, from the author ; An Essex Index, in four vol- 

 umes, compiled by Fred J. Brand, from the compiler; Bibliography 

 and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, volume 2, by 

 John M. Nickles and Robert B. Miller, and volume 3, by John M. 

 Nickles, Marie Siegrist, and Eleanor Tatge, from Marie Siegrist; 

 Oceanic Birds of South America, in two volumes, by Robert C. 

 Murphy, from the American Museum of Natural History ; The Birds 

 of the Malay Peninsula, volume 3, by Herbert C. Robinson and Fred- 



