A survey of research materials in Virginia libraries, 1936-37

There are approximately 1,100 volumes in GENERAL BIOLOGY
at the University of Virginia. The collection includes some
bibliographical and some biographical material, and there are
twenty-two periodicals currently received.

Five libraries in Virginia are notably close in reported
amount of material in general biology: the College of William
and Mary, 655 volumes; the State Library, 650 volumes; Randolph-Macon

Woman's College, 625 volumes; Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
594 volumes; and Hampton Institute, 592 volumes. Of these,
the library at Virginia Polytechnic Institute is comparatively
strong in periodical holdings. Both that library and the library
at Randolph-Macon Woman's College subscribe to the Wistar Institute
Bibliographic Services. Apparently most of the college and
university libraries have been currently receiving Biological
Abstracts.

Of material on BOTANY the library of the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute contains 1,262 volumes. This collection includes
sets of the Index Kewensis Plantarum Phanerogamarum, of the
Natürlichen Pflanzen-Familien, and of the Kryptogamen-Flora by
Rabenhorst; the reports of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, of the
Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg in Java, of the Missouri Botanical
Garden in St. Louis, of the New York Botanical Garden, and of
the United States National Herbarium; and the following serials
(a number, however, being incomplete): American Botanist, American
Fern Journal, American Journal of Botany, Botanical Abstracts,
Botanical Gazette, Botanical Review, Botanische Zeitung, Botanisches
Zentralblatt, Butler University Botanical Studies,
California University Publications in Botany, Deutschen Botanische
Gesellschaft, Dutch East Indies, Instituut voor Plantenziekten,
Mededeelingen, Florida, State Plant Board, Circulars, Monthly
Bulletin, Quarterly Bulletin, Reports, Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus,
Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte in der Lehre von den
Gärungs-Gebiete der Pflanzenkrankheiten, Journal of Mycology,
Minnesota Botanical Studies, Minnesota Plant Studies, Botanical
Series of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota,
Montreal University Contributions du Laboratorie de Botanique,
Mycologia, New Phytologist, North American Flora, Pennsylvania
University Botanical Laboratory Contributions, Phytopathology,
Plant Physiology, Plant World, Revue Général de Botanique, Rhodora,
Royal Botanic Club, Notes, Société Mycologique de France,
Bulletin, Southern Appalachian Botanical Club, Journal, Torrey
Botanical Club, Bulletin, Wyoming University Publications in
Science, Botany, Zeitschrift für Botanik, Zeitschrift für
Pflanzenkrankheiten.

At the University of Virginia Library there are approximately
1,800 volumes in botany, the majority being books, not serials.
Some of the earlier works are represented; there are Engler's
Das Pflanzenreich, the Index Kewensis, the Natürlichen Pflanzen-Familien,
and Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora; and the publications
of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, of the
Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, of the New York Botanical
Garden, of the Jardin Botanico of Rio de Janeiro, and of the
United States National Herbarium are currently received.

A general collection in botany is maintained at the College

of William and Mary. At the time this survey record was taken
the collection consisted of 575 volumes.

Of volumes in ZOOLOGY the University of Virginia has approximately
2,400. This is a general collection with some early
works, such as Buffon's Histoire Naturelle (both in the original
and in translation); with several monumental sets, for example,
Audubon's Birds of America, Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen der
Thier Reichs, and Lankester's Treatise on Zoology; and with a
fair representation of reports of marine laboratories, zoological
gardens, and zoological serials. For purposes of research the
most significant part of the collection probably consists in the
material — books, periodicals, and pamphlets — on ornithology,
this being largely the gift of J. H. Riley, Esq., of the United
States National Museum.

The Library at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute contains
1,090 volumes in zoology. This also is a general collection.
It includes runs of thirty-eight serial publications, in addition
to which there are the reports (chiefly annual) from twenty-two
government departments or laboratories.

The State Library in Richmond has approximately 1,000 volumes
in zoology, the collection being general but with some
emphasis on popular zoology and birds. About 200 of the volumes
are the publications of state departments of fisheries. Special
sets include Audubon's Birds of America, the Cambridge Natural
History, Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, Jardine's Naturalist's Library,
and Kingsley's Riverside Natural History.