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National Gallery of Art, which is an important part of the 

 Museum, also received numerous additions, conspicuously those 

 presented by Mr. Charles L. Freer of Detroit, supplementary to 

 his other large and valuable collections given in 1906. 



3. Library of Congress. Report of the Librarian, Herbert 

 Putnam, and Report of the Superintendent of the Library Build- 

 ings and Grounds, Frank L. Averill, for the fiscal year ending 

 June SO, 1915. Pp. 221 ; 6 plates. — An important part of the 

 work of the Library of Congress during the past year has been 

 the development of the plans having to do with the "preparation 

 of such indexes, digests and compilations of law as are required 

 for Congress and other official use." An appropriation of $25,000 

 by Congress for this end became available on July 1, 1914, and 

 the Librarian indicates here the many special lines on which the 

 work planned will be carried out. The Library of Congress now 

 contains 2,364,000 books, with large numbers of manuscripts, 

 prints, maps, pamphlets, etc. The increase over the preceding year 

 of 110,564 books is considerably less than the average, in con- 

 sequence of the war conditions existing in Europe. An important 

 gift is that of Mrs. Ridgely Hunt of a collection of 316 volumes, 

 chiefly Italian works from the library of Wm. Cruger Pell ; other 

 gifts are also enumerated. Of the purchases, the most notable is 

 that of 10,741 volumes of Chinese literature selected by Dr. Hing 

 Kwai Fung. The East Asiatic collection in the Library is now in 

 excess of 45,000 volumes. 



4. The John Crerar Library; Clement W. Andrews, 

 Librarian. A List of Rooks on the History of Industry and 

 Industrial Arts. January, 1915. Prepared by Aksel G. S. 

 Josephson. Pp. 456. Chicago, 1915. — The present volume is 

 the eleventh of the bibliographical publications of the John 

 Crerar Library and follows a related volume, issued in 1911, 

 which gave a " List of Books on the History of Science. " Although 

 based upon the resources of one Library only, this is an important 

 contribution to bibliography in general, as it is the first attempt 

 to bring together a large number of titles in the subjects men- 

 tioned ; it is important to note that these fall in a department in 

 which the Library is particularly strong. This list includes the 

 economic history of the industries, including the history of com- 

 merce and banking, while the history of the science of economics 

 is included in the earlier volume mentioned on the History of 

 Science. Titles are arranged largely on the basis of the class 

 catalogue with numerous references to countries and centuries so 

 as to aid the student to find the material desired. 



5. Modes of Research in Genetics / by Raymond Pearl. 

 Pp. vii, 182. New York, 1915 (The Macmillan Company). — 

 Some of the most important recent experiments in the breeding 

 of animals have failed to yield their potential scientific value 

 because of the lack of sufficient precision in the methods em- 

 ployed. The investigator does not always realize the importance 

 of the principles of biometry and of a clear conception of the 

 meaning of statistical data for the success of his work. In this 

 book the author discusses the inadequacies of current modes of 



