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REPORT OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHER 
Dr. N. L. Brrrron, Drrecror-1n-CHIEF. 
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report for 
the year 1914. 
Assistance of those seeking information in the Garden 
library has occupied much of the Bibliographer’s time; 
increasingly so as this function of his office has come to be 
appreciated by users of the library. The variety of infor- 
mation sought is as wide as the field of botany and horti- 
culture. Of course, some of the problems presented remain 
unsolved, but these are relatively very few. At the same 
time bibliographic research has been continued, and the 
various manuscript records that have proved useful for 
reference in the bibliographic work have been further 
developed. 
After an interval of a year and a half or more during 
which funds for the purpose were not available, the Garden 
was once more in a position to enlarge the representation of 
the older botanical literature in our library, when the 
breaking out of the European war rendered the usual 
channels of trade unsafe; consequently few books have 
been purchased from abroad. By far the most important 
accession of the year was the botanical library of the late 
Professor Lucien M. Underwood, purchased with his col- 
lection of fungi, in July. This contained some works not 
previously represented, and even the duplicates were useful 
in the development of much-needed departmental libraries, 
which are placed near the collections to which they more 
especially relate. 
Three parts of North American Flora have appeared 
during the year: Volume ro, Part 1, in July, Volume 29, 
Part 1, in August, and Volume 34, Part 1, in December. 
In the case of the first, the very careful and efficient atten- 
tion of the author to details, greatly lightening the usual 
burdens of the bibliographer, is here gratefully acknowl- 
edged. Of the Flora, eleven volumes are now in course of 
publication, and of one of these, five parts have appeared. 
