De Oe Palmer yisiis ise wt cgeneh ceeded 50 
Cleveland H. Dodge.......ccccccccececee ceases veeeees 50 
Mrs. David Dows 50 
Samuel R. Betts 50 
Samuel P. Avery 25 
Benj. F. Deklyn ...........5, 25 
Mrs. Henry Draper. 25 
Library 
During the year 490 volumes and 572 pamphlets were 
added by purchase and received by gift, together with a 
large number of volumes and parts received in exchange for 
our publications from other institutions. A complete list of 
the institutions with which the Garden is in exchange for 
publications will be found in the report of the Librarian, 
hereto appended. A count of the books on the shelves made 
January 9, 1909, shows that this collection now consists of 
21,230 volumes. The purchase of the older literature of 
botany, systematically begun three years ago, has been con- 
tinued, and many gaps have been filled. In order to secure 
additional works which are continually becoming rarer, I 
propose to send our Librarian, Dr. John H. Barnhart, to 
Europe during the summer, for the purpose of visiting a 
considerable number of bookdealers and selecting from their 
stock such works as we most need, instead of selecting from 
the catalogues submitted by bookdealers as we have hitherto 
done in building up this collection. The books purchased 
during the year were nearly all obtained by the expenditure 
of sums contributed by friends of the Garden to the special 
fund for the increase of the collections, a total of $3,130 
having been credited to the purchase of books, but not com- 
pletely expended. I submit herewith a list of contributors 
and the amounts given by them. 
John Innes Kane... $500 
James B. Ford 250 
Geo. S. Bowdoin 200 
Francis Lynde Stetson 100 
Edward S. Harkness 100 
