next General Assembly, (1) for the aggregate sum of $300,000 for the completion of the Historical Building; (2) that instead of renewing the biennial appropriation for cataloguing the State Library, the General Assembly create the position of cataloguer of the State Library (including historical department); (3) instead of detailing one of the three State Library assistants to keep the books of the several departments of the library, including the numerous accounts of the historical department,, and instead of detailing the stenographer of the historical department for work part of the time at the State Library proper, that a combined bookkeeper and stenographer be added to the State Library force at a salary which will command high-grade service for the performance of the large volume of bookkeeping and typewriting steadily increasing with the growth of the several departments over which the State Librarian has charge; and (4) that the traveling library department of the State Library be transferred to the Iowa Library Commission.

Calling attention to the financial statement herewith appended, and to the accompanying lists of books added to the library. since my last report; also commending the faithfulness and efficiency of my assistants, Miss Helen M. Lee, Mrs. Florence A. Russell and Miss Mary Rosamond, and the hearty co-operation of Curator Aldrich and his assistants, Misses Whitcomb and Steele, in my efforts to make the consolidation law effective, and thanking the outgoing Governor and the members of the Library Board, of which he is ex-officio chairman, for their uniform kindness and courtesy, I am

Respectfully,

JOHNSON BRIGHAM,

State Librarian.