32 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT ON THE LIBRARY. 



By Samuel Henshaw. 



During the year from August 1, 1903, to July 31, 1904, 1,982 

 volumes, 1,914 parts of volumes, 1,607 pamphlets, and 85 maps 

 have been added to the Library. 



The total number of volumes in the Library is 40,064, the total 

 number of pamphlets is 33,330. 



One thousand, one hundred and forty-two volumes have been 

 bound ; sixteen hundred pamphlets have been separately bound. 



To Messrs. William Brewster, Louis Cabot, Arthur F. Estabrook, 

 Augustus Hemenway, Francis H. Peabody, Dudley L. Pickman, 

 John E. Thayer, and another, the Museum is indebted for a copy of 

 volumes one and two of Audubon's u Birds of America " (Elephant 

 folio). This is an accession of considerable importance and 

 value ; the plates, two hundred in number, are early impressions 

 of great brilliancy and are in a remarkable state of preservation ; 

 the legends are of much bibliographic interest. 



Another work, or part of a contemplated book, from the library 

 of Louis Agassiz is worthy of a brief note ; it is pages i-lxiv of a 

 general work on snakes by Johannes Wagler, and bears the follow- 

 ing dedication in pencil : " Prof. Dr. Agassiz mit besten Grusser 

 von Dr. Y. Martius." According to Dr. Leohnard Stejneger, of the 

 United States National Museum, who has kindly given me the facts 

 concerning this unique copy, the work was " probably printed 

 shortly after 1824." Owing to adverse criticism, the printing was 

 discontinued, and the work suppressed so successfully, Dr. 

 Stejneger writes, " that Wagler never afterwards used any of the 

 new names and never referred to the work again. Your copy is 

 probably the only one which got out." 



