THE LLOYD LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 
Building No. 1 
This building was erected by C. G. Lloyd in 1902, and was designed to 
contain both the books and the specimens, the two upper floors being devoted 
to the books and the lower floor to the specimens. During the short time ihat 
has intervened our library has increased so rapidly that the building is inad¬ 
equate for its purposes, and during the past winter a new building has been 
erected to be devoted exclusively to the library. The old building, now known 
as the Lloyd Museum, will contain the herbarium and the mycological collec¬ 
tion. The herbarium of pressed plants is estimated at about thirty thousand 
specimens, chiefly obtained by exchange by C. G. Lloyd during his earlier years. 
The mycological department contains many thousand dried specimens of fungi, 
particularly of the Gastromycetes, estimated at not less than five thousand 
different collections. There are more specimens of this family ten times over 
than in all the other museums of the world combined. 
Building No. 2 
This building was erected in the winter of 1907 and 1908. It is four 
stories, 22^x72 feet. It is devoted exclusively to Botany and Pharmacy 
(with a section on Eclectic Medicine), and contains a collection of books 
among the largest on these subjects. The volumes have not been counted, but 
some idea of the number may be obtained from the following statistics: There 
are 6,253 linear feet of shelving, and the books now occupy 2,600 linear feet 
of this space. As a shelf is found to hold on the average 429 books to every 
50 linear feet, the estimated number is 22,308 volumes. Cases have been 
placed in the upper floor, but the other three floors have only wall shelves, with 
provision made for floor cases in future as the needs of the library may require. 
When completely filled with shelving the library has a capacity of 1 1,413 linear 
feet, sufficient to shelve 98,000 volumes. If the collection of books continues 
to increase as it has in the past five or six years, the full capacity of this library 
will be taken in the next twenty years. We do not know that we shall ever 
accomplish it, but it is our ambition to make the Lloyd Library in time a 
practically complete library of its subjects. 
Cincinnati, Ohio, 
June 1, 1908. 
