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Library.—The library has until now been lodged in the same 
building as the herbarium, but before long it will be moved into 
the new herbarium building. It numbe t present 17,000 
works in over 38,000 volumes. The books are kept in oe cases 
which are locked. There are hae ee in use: (I 
chronological catalogue in 6 vo ; (2) a sh bee ae 
catalogue and (3) a subject cao (rine. For administra- 
tive purposes the library and the herbarium form separate 
departments under the a Py ae director. Visitors have 
access to the library on week days from 10 to 3 o'clock, excepting 
Saturdays (in the summer). 
Seed Control Station.—This is in the same building as the mu- 
seum and it also has its own staff and special equipment. It 
possesses a mycological collection, a collection of diseased or 
otherwise injured plants, spraying appliances and other similar 
instruments for the destruction of parasitic organisms. The 
station is devoted primarily to research work, but also supplies 
gratis information concerning plant diseases and mycology 
generally. 
Seminarium.—The functions of this department have already 
been explained on p. 200. It is at present lodged in the her- 
barium building. 
School of Horticulture.—This is an elementary school attached 
to the Garden and under the control of the director, but m 
tained by the Society for the Protection of Poor and Sick Children 
of St. Petersburg and is subsidized by the government. It 
occupies a special building and has its own fruit and vegetable 
garden. 
It only remains to add a few words concerning the official 
publications emanating from the Imperial Botanic Garden. The 
principal journal, Acta Horts hol pee has already been 
mentioned. It has run to more than volumes, with about 
18,000 pages. To this was added in i351 = Bulletin du Jardin 
Impérial Botanique de St. Petersbourg, and in 1902 the Journal 
traitant les moyens de combattre les maladies et les lésions des 
plantes cultivées et des plantees sauvages utiles, which in 1907 was 
superseded by another journal under the title Les maladies des 
