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Mr. Wm. E. Dodge $1.000.00 
Mr. D. O. Mills....0 occ ccccc ccc ccccceeccce seeeeeees 1.000.00 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie 1.000.00 
Mr. J. eae Morgan 1.000.600 
Mr. Wim. C. Schermerhorn.....cccccccccecseesees 500.00 
Hon. Chas. Pp. Daly 100.00 
Mr. Samuel Sloan 100.00 
Hon. oe BE OW We viene annua Gecaae 100.00 
TNE ra CO cohen ttre aes coe Geen ans ahaa rs 100.00 
Dr. N. L. Britton 100.00 
$5,000.00 
Volumes aggregating 490 have been bought by means of 
this fund through an expenditure of $1,916.65. Under the 
appropriation for Library, 54 volumes have been bought, and 
657 volumes have been received through gifts and exchanges, 
the total number of volumes added to the Library during the 
year being 1201, together with over 1250 pamphlets and parts. 
Considerable binding has been done. 
The gift by the New York Academy of Medicine of 203 
volumes of books from the library of the late Dr. David 
Hosack, is especially noteworthy. This collection includes 
many very rare works of the last century, now seldom to be 
obtained. 
Special attention has been paid to obtaining agricultural 
and horticultural works, and many volumes have been secured 
through exchanges. 
Mr. Nash, General Assistant, acted as Librarian during 
the first part of the year, and Professor MacDougal, First 
Assistant, has taken charge of the books since his appoint- 
ment in July. The Scientific Directors have authorized the 
appointment of a regular librarian for 1g00. 
Museums and Herbarium. 
The accumulation, preparation and mounting of specimens 
has proceeded continuously throughout the year. Over 70,- 
000 specimens have been secured, mainly by gifts. Specimens 
mounted for the Herbarium aggregate the enormous number 
of 115,600, an increase certainly unprecedented in any 
American herbarium. <A detailed account of the progress 
