﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY 
  119 
  

  

  by 
  the 
  Philatelic 
  Literature 
  Society 
  of 
  London; 
  Nomenclator 
  Ani- 
  

   inalium 
  Generiim 
  et 
  Subgeneriim, 
  from 
  the 
  Preussische 
  Akademie 
  

   (Icr 
  Wissenschaften 
  — 
  a 
  publication 
  not 
  regularly 
  sent 
  in 
  exchange, 
  

   but 
  which 
  the 
  Academy 
  was 
  good 
  enough 
  to 
  present 
  to 
  the 
  Smith- 
  

   sonian 
  Institution; 
  Le 
  Tresor 
  de 
  Petrossa, 
  from 
  the 
  Academia 
  Ro- 
  

   laana 
  ; 
  and 
  Denl<:maller 
  aus 
  Aegypten 
  und 
  Aethiopen, 
  in 
  12 
  volumes, 
  

   i)}^ 
  C. 
  E. 
  Lepsius, 
  from 
  Mrs. 
  George 
  Cabot 
  Lodge. 
  Another 
  impor- 
  

   tant 
  gift 
  was 
  a 
  copy 
  of 
  Billeder 
  af 
  Nordens 
  Flora 
  Med 
  Tekst 
  af 
  

   A, 
  Mentz 
  og 
  C. 
  H. 
  Ostenfeld 
  — 
  a 
  work 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  authors 
  arc 
  doing 
  

   for 
  Scandinavian 
  wild 
  flowers 
  what 
  Mrs. 
  Charles 
  D. 
  Walcott, 
  in 
  her 
  

   well-known 
  North 
  American 
  Wild 
  Flowers, 
  is 
  doing 
  for 
  the 
  flowers 
  

   of 
  our 
  own 
  country, 
  Tliis 
  interesting 
  work 
  was 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  

   institution 
  by 
  the 
  authors, 
  through 
  the 
  good 
  offices 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Oskar 
  

   Thyregod, 
  librarian 
  of 
  the 
  Industriforeningens 
  Bibliotek, 
  Copen- 
  

   hagen. 
  

  

  But 
  the 
  outstanding 
  gift 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  was 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  John 
  Donnell 
  

   ►Smith 
  botanical 
  collection 
  of 
  1,C00 
  volumes. 
  This 
  library 
  was 
  really 
  

   presented 
  to 
  the 
  Institution 
  in 
  1905, 
  but 
  only 
  part 
  of 
  it 
  was 
  trans- 
  

   ferred 
  to 
  Washington 
  before 
  last 
  year. 
  Now 
  it 
  is 
  all 
  shelved 
  in 
  the 
  

   west 
  end 
  oi 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Building, 
  awaiting 
  the 
  completion 
  of 
  a 
  

   special 
  alcove 
  in 
  the 
  section 
  of 
  botany, 
  where 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  deposited, 
  

   that 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  easily 
  available 
  to 
  the 
  scientists 
  there. 
  This 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  

   the 
  most 
  valuable 
  gifts 
  ever 
  made 
  to 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  library. 
  It 
  

   includes 
  books 
  not 
  duplicated 
  in 
  Washington, 
  and 
  at 
  least 
  one 
  rare 
  

   work 
  of 
  which, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  librarian 
  knows, 
  there 
  is 
  only 
  one 
  other 
  

   copy 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States. 
  This 
  is 
  a 
  volume 
  by 
  Gomez 
  Ortega, 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  at 
  Madrid 
  in 
  1797, 
  which 
  contains 
  the 
  first 
  published 
  descrip- 
  

   tions 
  of 
  many 
  important 
  plants 
  of 
  Mexico. 
  The 
  library 
  is 
  particu- 
  

   larly 
  rich 
  in 
  works 
  on 
  tropical 
  American 
  plants, 
  especially 
  those 
  of 
  

   Central 
  America. 
  Many 
  of 
  the 
  books 
  were 
  obtained 
  abroad 
  and 
  are 
  

   beautifully 
  bound. 
  Each 
  volume 
  bears 
  a 
  distinctive 
  plate 
  with 
  the 
  

   name 
  of 
  the 
  donor. 
  In 
  1908 
  a 
  catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  collection 
  was 
  pre- 
  

   pared 
  by 
  Miss 
  Alice 
  Cary 
  Atwood, 
  of 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  Agricultui-o. 
  

   and 
  published 
  by 
  the 
  Institution. 
  

  

  The 
  work 
  done 
  on 
  the 
  general 
  catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  

   library 
  (not 
  including 
  that 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  tlie 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  

   Astrophysical 
  Observatory, 
  spoken 
  of 
  elsewhere), 
  which 
  is 
  kept 
  in 
  

   the 
  office 
  reading 
  room, 
  was 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Volumes 
  catalogued 
  3, 
  922 
  

  

  Volumes 
  recatalogued 
  134 
  

  

  Charts 
  catalogued 
  221 
  

  

  Cards 
  typed 
  1, 
  097 
  

  

  Library 
  of 
  Congress 
  cards 
  filed 
  406 
  

  

  New 
  authors 
  added 
  520 
  

  

  