MISSOUEI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
For a number of years, wood specimens, thin veneers of 
wood, and mounted slides, lars^ely of woods, have been 
accumulating at the Garden. These specimens, assignable 
to the capital stock account of the Secretary as adjuncts of 
the herbarium, are now inventoried as follows : — 
Wood specimens of various sizes 1,027, valued at $100 00 
Wood veneers, by Spurr, Hough, Ndrdlinger, 
and Michel 2,229, " " 150 00 
Microscope slides, by Penhallow, Hough, Mun- 
roe, and others 1,051, " 250 00 
Together 4,307, " " $500 00 
In 1895, $3,764.00 was spent for purchases and binding 
for the library, which has been increased by 1,150 books 
and 147 pamphlets purchased, and 314 books valued at 
$603.15, and 961 pamphlets valued at $196.82, donated or 
received in exchange for the publications of the Garden. 
Early in the season, a few of the drawings and preliminary 
sketches of the late Paulus Roetter, the delineator of the 
Cactaceac for Engelmann's classical work on that group, 
were purchased of his daughter, and have been hound in a 
volume which is placed beside the p:ngehnann MSS. in 
the library. After a number of eiforts to place an exact 
valuation upon the Sturtevant Prelinnean library,* this 
collection has been arbitrarily appraised at $5.00 per 
volume, — a low average, — and will be added to the capital 
stock account by the Secretary, with the accessions for the 
year. The work of indexing the plant illustrations in the 
library has been continued through the year, 36,057 cards, 
mainly of this class, having been added. 
As now constituted, therefore, the library contains : — 
PampWets 10.930 
Books (general) 9.0'^.: valued at $32,204 23 
" (Startevant) 4«3 " 2,315 00 
•« (Encrelmann, MSS.).. HO 600 00 
" (Eoetter, MSS.) 1 '* " 100 00 
I Report, 16 ; Sixth Report, 1 
