508 



PROCEEDINGS OP THE ACADEMY OF 



Ornithology, .... 



Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc., 



Bibliography, 



Mineralogy, 



Physical Science, 



Geography, 



Agriculture, . 



Ichthyology, . 



Mammalogy, . 



Helminthology, 



Chemistry, 



Herpetology, . 



Unclassified, . 



Warner Library, mostly Mathemat 



cs, 



Volumes formed by collection of pam- 

 phlets, ...... 



Volumes in library of Entomological Sec- 

 tion (Am. Ent. Soc), 



Volumes in James Aitken Meigs' library, 



Total, 48,220 



Nearly all the pamphlets above enumerated are bound, the entire 

 collection forming, as noted, 958 volumes. 



The library of the Entomological Section (American Entomolog- 

 ical Society) comprises 2,864 volumes, many of them, however, being 

 duplicates of those elsewhere credited. 



The James Aitken Meigs' library of miscellaneous literature is 

 entirely foreign to the province of the Academy, the scientific por- 

 tions of it having been catalogued and placed when received with 

 the special sections of the main library of which they now form a 

 part. The miscellaneous portion is retained and kept together out 

 of regard for the wishes of the donor John G. Meigs. A shelf list 

 has been prepared but it has not been otherwise catalogued although 

 there is a large amount of material in the collection of indirect 

 interest, sufficient indeed to warrant the preparation of an author 

 and subject catalogue when time can be secured from more pressing 

 matters. 



Excluding, therefore, if it be thought proper, the two sections last 

 referred to, the working library of the Academy contained when 



