REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



IT. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Office of the Librarian, 

 Washington, D. C. , August 29, 1901. 

 Sir : I have the honor to submit herewith the executive report of 

 the Library for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901. 

 Respectfully, 



Josephine A. Clark, 



Librarian. 

 Hon. James Wilson, Secretary. 



WORK OF THE YEAR. 



ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



During the past year the accessions to the Library have numbered 

 over 4,000 books and pamphlets. These accessions have included 

 many reference books of especial value in the work of the Depart- 

 ment and a large number of scientific periodicals. The following are 

 among the most noteworthy acquisitions to the Library during the 

 year: Martius's Historia naturalis Palmarum, 3 folio volumes, fully 

 illustrated ; the latest edition of Beilstein's Handbuch der organischen 

 Chemie, a standard work in chemistry; Doubleday and Westwood's 

 Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, 2 volumes, and Leech's Butterflies 

 from China, Japan, and Korea, 3 volumes, both of which works are 

 richly illustrated by colored plates. Archiv fur Zoologie und Zootomie, 

 1800-1805, Der Naturforscher, 27 volumes, 1774-1793, and Belgique 

 horticole, 35 volumes, completing the Library copy, are among the 

 valuable additions to the periodicals. At the sale of the library of the 

 noted naturalist Henri Milne-Edwards, in Paris, over sixty works on 

 zoology were obtained, many of which are rarely available for pur- 

 chase. To the class of books on gardening such publications as 

 Gardens Old and New, Cook's The Century Book of Gardening, and 

 Henderson's Picturesque Gardens have been added. 



PERIODICALS. 



The periodicals and serial publications currently received by pur- 

 chase and by exchange number considerably over 2,000. These pub- 

 lications include farm papers, technical scientific journals, and serial 

 publications of learned societies from all parts of the world. The 

 widespread distribution of the Department publications on condition 

 of exchange has materially enlarged the collections of foreign serials 

 during the past few years. This class of accessions to the Library is 

 the largest and it is the most valuable in the current work of the 

 Department. 



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