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Less ostensible exhibits were placed, or assistance was rendered in 

 placing, as follows : 



Boy Scout Merit Badge Exhibit, Sacramento, March 20 and 21, 1931. 



Boy Scout Merit Badge Exhibit, San Francisco, May, 1931. 



Call of the Open Road, Chester N. Weaver, San Francisco, May, 1931. 



First Annual California Outdoor Exposition, Los Angeles, June, 1931. 



Gravenstein Apple Show, Sebastopol, August 4-9, 1931. 



Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, September, 1931. Exhibit won a special 



award of a blue ribbon. 

 Sonoma County Citrus Fair, Cloverdale, February 19-22, 1932. 

 San Bernardino Orange Show, San Bernardino, February, 1932. 

 Boy Scouts of America, Marysville, April, 1932. 



LIBRARY 



The history of the library activities during the first part of the 

 biennium was largely one of slow plodding work connected with an 

 inventory and valuation of its contents. In this operation we were 

 fortunate in having additional clerical assistance and such report as 

 of June 30, 1930, was compiled and forwarded to the Department of 

 Finance at Sacramento. The work covered not only the accessioning 

 and evaluating of all books at that time on the shelves, but included 

 also the cataloging and valuation of the scientific publications in our 

 possession, thereby making readily accessible thousands of papers that 

 were in our files. The total value at that date was $5,518.68 of which 

 half represented gifts to our library. 



It is hoped that opportunity will be afforded to catalog the serial 

 publications and make accessible more valuable material. 



During the past two years, 186 books were added to our file, twenty- 

 five of these being gifts. 



Expenses for the two-year period, exclusive of salary and emer- 

 gency work, amounted to $732.15, showing a saving of just half of the 

 allotted budget. 



Number of books on shelves June 30, 1932, total 1341 ; pamphlets 

 3636. 



Eighty-four weekly and/or monthly periodicals are received regu- 

 larly, read and routed to the office and field force. This method 

 assists in keeping informed about fish and game conservation work 

 throughout the country. 



The splendid cooperation with the other "special" libraries in 

 this territory and the universities has aided materially in the gathering 

 of research material. 



The library moved into its new, light and attractive quarters near 

 the close of the biennium, thereby affording relief to the threatened 

 congestion in our stacks. 



With the limited personnel of one attendant, and the necessary 

 routine and detail work, it is somewhat difficult to record the exact 

 number of calls and demands made upon the library's facilities. Such 

 records that are available show a splendid growth and continue to 

 demonstrate the need for, and the work of this "special" kind of 

 library, one devoted exclusively to natural history and conservation 

 of fish and game. 



