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dener’s Magazine” and other series treating solely of orchids, as 
“‘Lindenia,”’ ‘The Orchid Review,” “Journal des Orchidées ” 
and “ L’Orchidophile”’ are now in complete files on the shelves. 
The periodicals in the botanical series proper are also in com- 
plete sets with the exception of two or three. Among these is 
the “ Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift,’ the back numbers 
of which are most difficult to obtain and of which a complete 
series but rarely comes on the market. 
The acquisition of these series, and last summer, that of a col- 
lection of the older botanical literature * along with usual and 
current accessions, have crowded the shelves to such an extent 
that increased shelf room was needed. 
The first additions were four fire-proofed oak book-cases, built 
into the recesses of the reading-room. They were put in place 
early in 1902 (Fig. 11), and accommodated a number of books 
that had remained stacked in a store-closet for lack of space. 
These shelves were soon filled to overflowing and since the 
beginning of the present year, sixteen sections of steel stacks, 
constructed to match in every way the existing ones, have been 
added to the book-room. The new sections have an estimated 
capacity of three thousand volumes and will provide for the 
development of the library for several years to come (Fig. 10). 
A new card index case has also been constructed against one of 
the piers of the reading-room (Fig. 10) and into it are sorted the 
accumulated cards, so that the catalogue is now in a continuous 
series and complete to date. It contains the catalogue of the 
books as well as the ‘Index to recent Literature relating to 
American Botany”’ which has been issued by the Torrey 
Botanical Club since 1894. Besides this main catalogue, the 
library has a separate set of the “Index of recent Literature 
relating to American Botany,” a set of the “Card-Index of 
Genera, Species and Varieties of Plants published since 1885” 
published by Miss Josephine A. Clark and a set of the “ Index 
Botanique Universel ” begun by the Bulletin de 1’ Herbier Boissier 
in 1902. A subject catalogue has also been started, but is 
necessarily of very slow growth. 
* Journal, vol. 3, p. 203. 
