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The most important work ahead of this department for the coming year 

 is, as it was last year, the building up of a representative collection of west 

 coast insects, a collection that for our west coast fauna will be the equiva- 

 lent of the great collections in the museums of the east. In the Hemiptera 

 and Diptera at least we already have material that cannot be ignored by 

 students undertaking monographic work in these orders. Still, this is 

 but a beginning and our energies for a few years should be largely con- 

 centrated upon the local fauna. The greatest needs of this department 

 during the coming year is for more cases for the arrangement of our 

 material and for more help for the curator in the mounting and labeling 

 of specimens. There are large accumulations of valuable material on hand 

 to be mounted or immediately available when there is suitable help for 

 preparing the specimens. The call for more assistance and more cases 

 will continue for a few years until the foundation for our collection of 

 local insects has been laid by the acquisition and arrangement of a good 

 series of our common and more characteristic species. 



Librarian's Report 

 By E. P. Van Duzee, Assistant Librarian 



The year 1919 has seen satisfactory advance along all lines of work in 

 the library. Additions to the library during the year number 444 complete 

 volumes and a considerable number of pamphlets and society publications 

 not yet completing volumes. Of the additional volumes noted 39 were 

 received by gift and 200 through exchange with other institutions. The 

 total number of volumes accessioned on December 31, 1919, was 11,880 of 

 which 4,750 were entered during the past year. The collation and classifi- 

 cation of the miscellaneous government and institutional publications is 

 rapidly nearing completion and a good proportion of these have been fully 

 catalogued and the cards incorporated in the library catalogue. About 125 

 boxes that had not been opened since the library was moved to the new 

 building were unpacked and their contents assorted and distributed. Addi- 

 tions from this and other sources necessitated the rearrangement of the 

 entire series of periodicals and society publications in the English language 

 so they now occupy five of the six cases in the up-stairs reading room. 



As during the previous year, Miss McLellan and Mrs. Van Duzee have 

 each devoted a portion of their time to the care of the library, Miss 

 McLellan taking charge of the reading room, caring for the current 

 accessions and making all entries in the accessions register, while Mrs. 

 Van Duzee has done the classifying and cataloguing of the books. Both 

 have done careful and efficient work and are rapidly getting the library 

 into excellent condition. Use of the library by the public and by members 

 outside of the regular staff of the institution has shown a satisfactory in- 

 crease and the books purchased have included such as will prove valuable 

 to those readers, as well as technical works for the use of the curators. A 

 considerable number of books have been ordered from European sources 



