is keen, the food which will develop interest into knowledge and productiveness is the great work of the Institute Library.

Members and citizens generally are cordially invited to donate to the libraries either books or pamphlets that will be of value for reference or for circulation.

Additions to the Library for the past year, not mentioned under the several departments, have been as follows:

From CHARLES H. COOK, M.D. :

Twenty-four volumes of the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

From Mr. HENRY C. KNIGHT:

Sixteen volumes of "Ridpath's Library of Universal History."

From Gen. HORATIO C. KING :

"The Phantom Column."

From Mr RALPH H. WAGGONER:

Ten Chinese books.

From Mrs. SADIE L. BERGEN : "The Bergen Genealogy."

From SCRIBNERS' SONS:

"Robert Louis Stevenson, Letters, Criticism, Sketches,

etc."

From The Rev. SYLVESTER MALONE:

"The Henry McCaddin Memorial."

From Dr. LANGDON C. STEWARDSON: "Origins and Destiny."

From THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

"Military Notes on the Philippines."

From Mr. J. EDMUND WOODMAN:

"The Geology, Marine Zoology and Botany of the Vicinity

of Boston."

From N. M. SPEDON:

"Talent." (One bound volume.)

From ADELBERT M. DEWEY:

"Life of Rear Admiral Dewey and the Dewey Family History."

From THE NAVAL OFFICE:

"Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion."

From THE UNIVERSITY of Iowa:

"The Far North."

From Miss ALICE C. FLETCHER:

"A Pawnee Ritual Used When Changing a Man's Name," "The Harmonic Structure of Indian Music."

From Mr. JAMES LITTLEJOHN :

One bound volume of "Punch" and one bound volume of "London Illustrated News."

From the Hon. JOSEPH H. WALKER, M.C.:

"Reform of Treasury, Banking and Currency."

Reports from the following Institutions:

The Rochester Athenæum and Mechanics' Institute.

Oberlin College, Ohio.

The John Crerar Library.
University of Pennsylvania.
Indiana Academy of Science.

The Lowell Observatory.

The Lowell Historical Association.

Pratt Institute.

The Southampton Art Museum.

Columbia University.

N. Y. State Museum.

The Chicago Academy of Science.

The National Museum.

Field Columbian Museum.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Smithsonian Institution-2 Vols.
N. Y. Public Library.

Princeton University.

Museum of Natural History, Springfield.
The New England Society of Brooklyn.
Lehigh University.

Kansas University.

Tennessee University.
Harvard University.

Ohio State University.

From the Department of Agriculture, Annual Reports, 3 vol., 106 pamphlets, issued under the departments of Entomology, Botany, Agrostology, Animal Industry, Experiment Stations, Statistics.

From the Commissioner of Labor, Annual Report, 2 vols. From the United States Patent Office, Annual Report, twenty-two Official Gazettes and alphabetical index..

Reports from the Interstate Commerce Commission, of the Librarian of Congress, of the N. Y. Railroad Commissioners, of the Department of Labor, of the Department of Charities and Corrections, of the Commissioner on Education.

THE JOHN D. JONES LABORATORY BUILDING, COLD SPRING HARBOR, 72 x 36 FT.