1894.] 



NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 



465 



Geological Survey of Ala- 

 bama, 1 



United States Fish Commis- 



^iou, 1 



Ujiited States Civil Service 



Commissiou, 1 



Department of Mines, Nova 



Scotia, 1 



Upsal Observatory, i 



S. R. Roberts, 1 



Dr. Henry Skinner, .... 1 



Dr. M. V. Ball, 1 



Directors of City Trusts, 



Philadelphia, 1 



Australian Museum, .... l 



They were distributed to the 

 follows: — 



Iowa Geological Survey, . . 



Mrs. H. Carvill Lewis, . . 



Angelo Heilprin, 



East Indian Government, . 



Venezuelan Government, . 



Norwegian Meteorological 

 Institute, 



Illinois State Board of Agri- 

 culture, 



Dr. H. C. Wood, 



American Humanitarian 

 League, 



Comit6 M6t6orologique In- 

 ternational, 



John L. Peyton 



several departments of the library as 



Journals, 3,910 



Geology 234 



Botany, 133 



Conch ology, 113 



General Natural History, . 58 



Anthropology, 54 



Entomology, 48 



Mammalogy, 28 



Anatomy and Physiology, . 27 



Mineralogy, 22 



Voyages and Travels, ... 19 



Ornithology, 18 



Agriculture, 15 



Physical Science, 14 



Encyclopedias, 11 



Herpetology, 10 



Ichthyology, . . 

 Chemistry, . . . 

 Helminthology, 

 Bibliography, . 

 Geography, . . 



9 

 8 

 7 

 5 

 1 



In addition to these, 127 works having no relation to science have 

 been received and catalogued for future disposition by the Library 

 Committee. 



The increase in the number of accessions is due to replies received 

 to 258 applications for deficiencies and 62 propositions for exchange 

 of publications. The latter included letters written to all the 

 scientific societies and journals not yet on the Academy's exchange 

 list, the names of which could be ascertained. The results of the 

 correspondence have been encouraging. 



The binding has been confined almost entirely to the department 

 of journals and periodicals, 403 volumes having been bound during the 

 year, while 86 volumes are now in the hands of the workmen. Much 

 still remains to be accomplished, although the good results of the last 

 two years' comparatively liberal appropriations for binding are 

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