ANNUAL REPORT. 79 



natural protections from the heat of summer and the bleak winds 

 of winter and their absence can be explained only on the false as- 

 sumption that the usual shade trees and vines will not grow in this 

 climate and that native trees are undesirable. 



WORK AS LIBRARIAN. 



In addition to my work as botanist, it has also fallen to my 

 lot to act as the librarian of the Station. I have had general 

 charge of the work of completing the various sets of state and gov- 

 ernmental publications received by the Station and am glad to 

 report that in addition to the forty-six volumes of the Bulletins 

 and Reports of the various Experiment Stations of the different 

 states bound last year about 180 more volumes have recently been 

 completed and sent to the binder, so that, although a number of 

 them yet remain more or less imperfect, we shall have an almost 

 complete set of these valuable publications for consultation in the 

 work of the Station. In addition complete sets of the bulletins of 

 this Station have been sent to every public library in the state, so 

 as to make them more available to the general public. This is now 

 the more necessary as many of these bulletins are out of print and 

 it was only with the greatest difficulty that sufficient numbers 

 were obtained to complete these several sets. In order to make 

 the various subjects embraced in our publications more accessible, 

 an index covering the entire period was prepared for Bulletin No. 

 28 and has been continued in each annual report succeeding. I 

 have also had general oversight over the work of mailing the bul- 

 letins of the Station and I would recommend that the mailing list 

 be printed and the mailer be used throughout for the work of 

 issue. One other pressing need for the Station library is that all 

 the books belonging to the Station be properly labeled and cata- 

 logued with a card-index of titles and subjects, as this would make 

 available a great mass of special agricultural literature now 

 unknown and needed for the work of the several departments of 

 the Station. 



