426 PROCEEDINGS OP THE ACADEMY OF [1889. 



ally by card, and the very small number of inquiries for missing 

 parts show that there is practically no loss in the mail. A great 

 advantage results in making known, at the earliest possible moment, 

 the researches of those who make onr pages valuable and the various 

 zoological and other records are enabled to give an epitome of them 

 within the year for which they are published. 



Acknowledgment of the reception of our publications has been 

 made, by sixty-three postal-cards and by seventy-three letters, the 

 former all representing mail transmissions while a large number of the 

 latter should be so counted. Letters of envoy number barely forty, 

 being a decrease in number from past years due, doubtless, to the 

 use of the mail in sending to us. 



A pleasing indication is afforded by a portion of the correspondence 

 from various parts of our country, desiring copies of our by-laws 

 and asking for such information as will enable the formation of a 

 society on the plan of our organization. These have been promptly 

 answered and the future will doubtless show some results. 



During the year three correspondents have been elected and no- 

 tification has been promptly sent. Replies have been received from 

 all where time has been sufficient to permit it. 



The additions to the Museum have been numerous, and have been 

 acknowledged by the Curator-in-Charge, as will be learned from his 

 report. 



Respectfully submitted, 



George H. Horn, M. D., 



Corresponding Secretary. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



The annual statistics of the Librarian's report indicate that the 

 year ending November 30, 1889, has been an unusually prosperous 

 one in the department of the Academy of which he has charge. 

 The additions received number 4,446, an increase of 489 over the 

 growth of 1888 and of 1,066 over that of the preceding year. Six 

 hundred and eighty volumes, 3,786 pamphlets and parts of periodi- 

 cals and continued works and 26 maps are recorded. 



