586 ANNUAL EECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



issued intended to contain all abstracts and briefer commu- 

 nications, and to present an actual record of the operations 

 of the society, and efforts are making to increase the circula- 

 tion of this series by placing the subscription price at a dol- 

 lar per annum, in the hope that the public, if not the Lyceum, 

 may be benefited thereby. Subscriptions will be thankfully 

 received by Mr. Robert Dinwiddie, corresponding secretary, 

 No. 113 Water Street, New York. 



PUBLISHING FUND OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENN- 

 SYLVANIA. 



The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is endeavoring to 

 secure a permanent publishing fund, and offers, in return for 

 subscriptions of $25, to supply to each subscriber during his 

 life a copy of every work issued by the society, and to pub- 

 lic libraries those published during twenty years to come. 

 The fund already received amounts to $21,000. The money 

 is placed in the hands of trustees, and the interest only used. 

 It is stated that more than nine hundred persons and libraries 

 have, so far, subscribed, and additional names are desired for 

 the sake of increasing the available resources. The society 

 has recently published a translation of the " History of the 

 Swedish Congregations on the Delaware River," by Israel 

 Acrelius. This forms an octavo volume of five hundred 

 pages, and is well illustrated. They will also soon publish an 

 historical map of Pennsylvania, on which will be restored a 

 large amount of aboriginal nomenclature, sites of forts, bound- 

 aries of purchases from the Indians, etc. Circular. 



REPORT OF THE PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF NATURAL 



SCIENCES. 



The report for 1873 of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia announces the final completion of the labor 

 upon which Mr. Tryon and his associates have been engaged 

 for several years past; namely, the arranging, labeling, and. 

 mounting of a very extensive collection of shells belonging 

 to the Academy. The total number by actual count is 14,161 

 species, in something less than 100,000 specimens. The col- 

 lection is stated to be one of the finest extant. The librarian 

 reports .1336 additions in the way of books during the year, 

 of which 299 were volumes. Most of these were obtained 



