1909.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 575 



They were distributed to the several departments of the Library as 

 follows : 



Journals 5,602 Mineralogy 28 



Agriculture 319 Medicine 25 



Geology 278 Helminthology 22 



Botany 249 Mammalogy 22 



General Natural History 152 Physical Science 18 



Geography '. 130 Bibliography 17 



Voyages and Travels 117 Ichthyology 15 



Entomology 98 Chemistry 10 



Anatomy and Physiology 73 Mathematics 4 



Anthropology 66 Encyclopedias 1 



Conchology 36 Unclassified 29 



Ornithology 36 



Fifteen hundred and seventy-eight volumes have been bound since 

 the last report. 



Among the new books acquired during the year that are worthy of 

 special mention are the following: 



J. D. Hooker's Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery 

 Ships Erebus and Terror, in seven quarto volumes. 



A complete set of thirty- two volumes of the periodical Kosmos, 

 published in Lemberg. 



Kops and Van Eeden's Flora Batava, a complete set to date of 

 twenty-three quarto volumes. 



Ungarische Revue from 1885 to 1895, received from the Hungarian 

 Academy of Sciences in response to an application for deficiencies. 



Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, Volumes 1 to 7. 



The publications of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. 



Transactions of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society 

 from 1835 to 1895. 



Volumes 1 to 13, inclusive, of Forest and Stream, completing our set 

 of that periodical. 



A set of the J ahresbericht ilber die Fortschritte der physischen Wissen- 

 schaften (der Chemie und Physiologie) , in thirty volumes. 



The following new journals have been added to the list: 



Archiv filr die Geschichte der Naturioissenschaften und Technik, 

 Leipzig. 



Zcitschrift fiir induktive Abstammungs- und Vererbungslehre, Berlin. 



Zeitschrift fiir Botanik, Jena. 



Dorfleria, Vienna. 



Mannus, Wurzburg. 



Natur, Leipzig. 



Proshistorische Zeitschrift, Berlin. 



The current year is probably the most important in the history of 



