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REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN 
Dr. N. L. Brirron, DrrectTor-1n-CHIEr. 
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report for 
the year 1912. 
When the Garden was established, it received as a deposit 
under a formal agreement nearly all of the books relating to 
botany in the library of Columbia University, and these 
still form a noteworthy percentage of the Garden library, and 
include many of the most necessary works of reference. In 
recent years, however, the department of botany of the 
University has felt an increasing need for some of these 
books, in its endeavor to build up a more useful depart- 
mental library, and early in the present year 540 volumes, 
requested by the University, were returned to it for this 
purpose. Of the books thus withdrawn the Garden had 
its own copies of 90 volumes; the private library of the 
writer, which is deposited with the Garden and available 
for reference, contained 35 more; since the transfer 187 have 
been purchased by the Garden, and 3 presented to it. This 
leaves 225 volumes not yet replaced; some have been ordered, 
but have not yet been received; some, while not exactly 
duplicated in the Garden library, are essentially so; of the 
remainder, few are of great importance. 
Near the end of the year the remarkable and valuable 
collection of Darwiniana, formed by the late Charles Finney 
Cox, was purchased by special subscription and presented 
to the Garden in memory of Mr. Cox, who was so closely 
associated with the development of the institution. This 
gift included 125 bound volumes, many of them rare and in 
fine bindings. For a fuller account of the Cox collection of 
Darwiniana, one may refer to the Journat for January, 
1913. 
During the year 779 volumes have been bound, including 
39 which are the property of Columbia University. These 
779 volumes, together with the Cox Darwiniana and the 
usual purchases and gifts, have more than offset the loss in 
number due to the large withdrawal by Columbia University, 
