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Institution's desiderata in these and related fields when they came into 

 the book markets. Among them were Henri Beraldi's "Les Graveurs 

 du XIX e Siecle," 12 volumes, Paris, 1885-92; George Dixon's "A 

 Voyage Round the World, but More Particularly to the North-West 

 Coast of America, Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788," London, 

 1789 ; W. Vincent Legge's "A History of the Birds of Ceylon," Lon- 

 don, 1880; Urey Lisiansky's "A Voyage Round the World, in the 

 Years 1803, 4, 5, & 6, Performed by Order of His Imperial Majesty 

 Alexander the First, Emperor of Russia, in the Ship Neva," London, 

 1814; Samuel Palmer's "A General History of Printing, from the 

 First Invention of It in the City of Mentz," London, 1733; Leo 

 Schidlof's "Die Bildnisminiatur in Frankreich im XVII, XVIII, und 

 XIX Jahrhundert," Vienna, 1911; J. P. Williamson's "English- 

 Dakota Vocabulary," Santee Agency, Nebr., 1871; Francis Willugh- 

 by's "Ornithologie," London, 1676; William Wood's "Index Ento- 

 mologicus," new and revised edition, with supplement by J. O. West- 

 wood, London, 1854. 



GIFTS 



Space does not permit the separate listing of the 3,893 books and 

 papers which members and friends of the Institution so generously 

 gave to the library during the year. Among them were many items 

 that greatly enriched the collections, notably two gifts of more than 

 200 publications each, on photography, some of them old and rare, 

 which were presented to the division of photography for its sectional 

 library by George R. Goergens, and by the firm of Fuller & d'Albert. 



Separates and reprints of their papers are always most welcome 

 gifts from scientific investigators, and our divisional libraries on 

 special subjects are largely built up of such contributions. In spite 

 of the wartime difficulties of publication and transmission, the year's 

 record of the receipt of literature of this sort includes the names of 

 individual donors from most of the countries of North and South 

 America, and from Great Britain, Portugal, Egypt, Turkey, South 

 Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. 



EXCHANGES 



The Institution's policy of exchange of publications has always been 

 a liberal rather than a rigid one of equivalents, and many of its own 

 publications are sent out without expectation of any return in kind 

 at all. This policy has greatly benefited the library, for it has almost 

 invariably been reciprocated generously by the institutions on the 

 exchange list. During this last war year of paper shortage and small 



