Report of the President 77 



teachers and many classes of children have been conducted 

 through the hall. 



In addition to the departmental work the editorship of the 

 American Museum Journal and the Guide Leaflets has been 

 carried. 



THE LIBRARY 

 DEPARTMENT OF BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS 



Ralph W. Tower, Curator 



The Library has experienced another year of excellent 

 progress. Although no large collections in any one subject 

 have been acquired, the many volumes received by gift, pur- 

 chase and exchange have been of a character most adapted to 

 our needs. 



The number of works now in the Library is more than 

 62,000 volumes, including all bound pamphlets, which are 

 treated both on the shelves and in the catalogue as true volumes. 

 In addition to the above, the Osborn Library of Vertebrate 

 Paleontology contains 1,465 volumes and some 4,000 pam- 

 phlets. 



Again the patronage of Anson W. Hard has made it pos- 

 sible for us to possess other rare series and classical treatises 

 . which are so interesting and important that they 



. are especially acknowledged herewith : Historia 



Accessions , __ : 7 , °_ _ 



de Chile, 1847-185 3, by C Gay, an extremely 



rare set in thirty volumes dealing with the fauna, flora and 

 ethnology of the country; Aizatomie Compare'e, 1850-1856, by 

 Cuvier et Laurillard, a large folio volume devoted to the my- 

 ology of the vertebrates ; Vues des Cordilleres et Monui?iens des 

 Peuples Indigenes de V Amerique (Voyage de Humboldt et Bon- 

 plana), 1810, by Al. de Humboldt, a most authoritative work 

 on the manners and customs of the people ; Voyage Pittoresque 

 et Arche'ologique dans la Province D' Yucatan, 1838, by F. 

 de Waldeck; Die Vogel Afrikas, 1901-1905, by Ant. Reiche- 

 now, in three volumes and an Atlas; British Diving Ducks, 

 1913, by J. G. Millais, two volumes; Les P/diculines, 1880- 

 1885, by E. Piaget, three volumes; Die Inlandsche Kunstnijver- 



