MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 39 



REPORT ON THE LIBRARY. 



By Miss F. M. Slack. 



During the year ending September 1, 1898, the Library has 

 received 641 volumes, 2,422 parts, and 118 pamphlets. 



VOLUMES. PARTS. PAMPHLETS. 



Gift 26 46 17 



Exchange 182 750 63 



Purchase 15 285 1 



A. Agassiz . 89 1,341 37 



Library of Theodore Lyman .... 100 



Binding Parts 229 



641 2,422 118 



The whole number of volumes in the Library is now : — 



Museum Library 23,933 



Whitney Library 5,000 



28,933 

 Volumes of bound pamphlets 3,026 



31,959 



The whole number of pamphlets is : — 



Bound 17,965 



Unbound, Museum Library 300 



Whitney Library 5,000 



23,265 



Library of Theodore Lyman. 



In addition to the one hundred volumes counted in the increase 

 of the Library, Mr. Lyman's books included the following : — 



291 volumes of duplicates, the greater part of which being better bound than ours, 

 we^ placed on the shelves, and the volumes withdrawn placed among duplicates. 

 63 volumes of bound pamphlets, chiefly duplicate. 

 A set of Challenger Reports. 

 A set of Museum Publications, 

 A set of Louis Agassiz's works. 



