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It is gratifying to report excellent progress in the Library; more 

 books purchased, a larger exchange list, better conditions for work, 

 and consequent better service to the Museum staff and to the public 

 generally. The effort to secure some of the older literature of anthro- 

 pology and botany is being continued and important works, difficult to 

 obtain, have been added. For the Department of Anthropology there 

 has been purchased a number of works on Africa and the Pacific Islands. 

 On account of changes in the map it was necessary to reclassify the 

 literature already in the library relating to these localities. For the 

 Department of Botany a number of out of print works have been 

 secured. Among the more valuable additions are the following works : 

 Boott, Illustrations of the genus Carex; Hooker, Exotic Flora; Hum- 

 boldt & Bonpland, Voyage — sixieme partie, botanique ; Seeman, The 

 botany of the voyage of H. M. S. Herald; Sloane, Catalogue plantarum 

 quas in insula Jamaica sponte provenient; Vahl, Eclogiae Americans. 

 The largest single acquisition received during the year was that ob- 

 tained with the Strecker collection of moths and butterflies, which 

 was received, however, too late to be catalogued. This accession 

 consists of 318 volumes and 947 pamphlets, and contains a number 

 of rare entomological works which are valuable both historically and 

 scientifically. A preliminary examination shows that there are a 

 number of duplicates, which will be valuable for exchange material. 

 With the purchase of the Proceedings and- Transactions of the 

 important entomological societies of this country the entomological 

 library has been considerably strengthened. Through the courtesy 

 of Mr. Kiralfy, Commissioner-General of the Franco-British Exhibi- 

 tion, London, the library received a collection of 89 catalogues and 

 reports of the Franco-British Exhibition. The Superintendent of 

 Documents, Washington, D. C, forwarded 195 publications of the U. 

 S. Geological Survey that fill many gaps in the files of its publications 

 in the general library. Fa*om the Board of Education, South Ken- 

 sington, London, was received 29 volumes of miscellaneous publi- 

 cations. The Botanical Garden of Buitenzorg, Java, sent 57 volumes. 

 Dr. John Coulter of the University of Chicago presented 2 5 botanical 

 manuscripts; and Miss Alice Bache Gould of Boston an original edi- 

 tion of the Flora de Filipinas. The list of periodicals and serials re- 

 ceived by'gift and exchange from contemporary institutions, both 

 domestic and foreign, increases in number and value from year to year. 

 During the year 984 volumes and pamphlets were bound. The binding 

 in plain black cloth of many back numbers of periodicals and serials 



