1914.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 655 



Zeitsclirift f. ansowaudte Entoniologic, I, 1, 2. 

 Zeitschrift f. Oologie, I-XV. 

 Zeitschrift f. \iilkanoloo;ie, I, 1, 2. 

 Zoolofiiska Bidrag fnm Uppsala, I, II. 



The decrease in the number of accessions as compared to the 

 groAvth of last year is partly owing to a curtaihnent of appropriations 

 and partly to the interference of the war with the publication and 

 transmission of foreign periodicals. 



The issue of German journals, at first interrupted, has now been 

 resumed, and they, just at present, are being received with tolerable 

 regularity. Scarcely anything, except the Comptes Rendus of the 

 Academy of Sciences and the Society of Biology reaches us from 

 France, and these curtailed in size. Needless to say, nothing has 

 come from Belgium since the invasion. The fine annual package 

 from the Catholic University of Louvain will probably never be 

 received again. 



The amount at the disposal of the Library Committee has per- 

 mitted of the binding of only 218 volumes. 



The Card Catalogue is being thoroughly revised by Mr. Fox and 

 information secured regarding incomplete sets, many of which, 

 it is found, are in their present condition because of the death of 

 the authors or the discontinuance of publication. 



A proposition to amend the By-Laws so as to permit of the loaning 

 of books from the Library, on which adverse action had been taken 

 last year, was again referred to the Council and will probably be 

 reported on favorably. Final action on this and other propositions 

 will not be taken by the Academy until the third Tuesday in January. 

 They will be more particularly dealt with in next year's report. 



The Librarian was granted leave of absence to attend the Inter- 

 national Exposition of Book Industries and the Graphic Arts in 

 Leipzig and subsequently the meeting of the British Library Associa- 

 tion at Oxford. On the breaking out of the war all idea of reaching 

 Leipzig had to. be abandoned and news of the postponement of the 

 Oxford meeting soon followed. In the intermediate tin).e between 

 the first mobilization of troops and the beginning of actual fighting 

 the journey from Milan to London was made with no disaster and 

 the minimum of inconvenience. Earlier and later efforts to make 

 the passage were much more serious matters. 



During the Librarian's absence the routine business of the library 



was carried on with characteristic efficiency by his assistants, William 



J. Fox and Furman S. Wilde, to whom he is glad to again make 



deserved acknowledgment. 



Edward J. Nolan, Librarian. 



