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New Jersey Departmenl of Conservation and Development. Trenton. Animal 



Report . 

 New York Mineralogical Club. Brooklyn. Bulletin. 

 New York Slate College of Forestry. Syracuse. Bulletin. 

 Notes "ii Rhode Island Ornithology. Bristol. 

 Ohio (The) Journal of Science. Columbus. 

 Physiological Abstracts, London. 



Service i 'e ilogique de I'Indochine. Eanoi-Haiphong. Bulletin. 

 Thornwell Museum. Clinton, South Carolina. Annual Report. 

 Vermont Agricultural Experiment station. Bulletin. 



Four hundred and four volumes have been bound. 



Tb.e special catalogue of books subject to loan has been completed 

 and is now in use. Certain works not included in the list may. by 

 order of the Council, be borrowed with the consent of the Librarian. 



Under the revised By-law, 61 works in 66 volumes have been 

 loaned. Seven of these are still outstanding. 1,226 works in 1,476 

 volumes have been used in the study rooms by students of the 

 Academy. 



The requirement that these books be registered before removal 

 from the library has resulted in desirable convenience of access and 

 recovery when wanted by other readers. 



We are under obligation to Mrs. William H. Bennett for the 

 repair and regilding of the frame containing the portrait of her 

 father, George W. Carpenter, Treasurer of the Academy from 

 December, 1826, until his death, June 7, 1860. 



Six volumes and four duplicate pamphlets have been sold. 



184 volumes were given by the Academy and 29 by the President 

 to Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, as a help in replacing 

 the library of that institution, which has been destroyed by fire. 



With the rest of the scientific and literary world we are still suffering 

 from the effects of the English embargo on books from Germany 

 and other belligerent nations. The hoped-for relief referred to in 

 my last report, where the subject is treated of at some length, has 

 not been accorded, and notwithstanding strenuous efforts on the 

 part of American importers to secure concessions from the British 

 censors, what has been called ''the intellectual famine" continues. 

 The Foreign Trade Adviser of our own Department of State is not 

 apparently able to modify the situation, although, with the Librarian 

 of Congress, he has shown every disposition to do so' as far as possible. 

 Shipments sent by way of Rotterdam have been detained on the 

 most trivial pretexts, yet it is only under the protection of the official 

 permits that a supply of current issues and deficiencies can safely 

 be secured. Foreign publishers rarely prepare large editions of the 

 works issued by them and especially is this the case in the present 



