348 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC.^ 



Communications forwarded : 



Acknowledging gifts to the Library 680 



Requesting the supply of deficiencies 155 



Acknowledging gifts to the Museum 76 



Acknowledging photographs and biographies 3 



Letters of sympathy or congratulation, addresses, etc 5 



Diplomas and notices of election of correspondents and delegates' creden- 

 tials 8 



Miscellaneous letters 121 



Annual reports and circulars sent to correspondents 14 



Total forwarded 1,062 



Respectfully submitted, 



J. Percy Moore, Corresponding Secretary. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



The efficient services reported last year as having been rendered 

 during the concluding months of 1917 by the Assistant Librarian, 

 William J. Fox, have been continued and the growth of the library 

 represented by the following report is the result : 



The total additions amount to 4,503, consisting of 4,061 pamphlets 

 and parts of periodicals, 293 volumes, 148 maps and one framed 

 portrait. 



They were received from the following sources : 



Exchanges 2,024 



Isaiah V. Williamson Fund 1,209 



United States Department of 



Agriculture 688 



General Appropriation for the 

 Purchase of Books 



Authors 



Pennsylvania State Library. . . . 



United States Department of 

 the Interior 



Editors 



American Entomological Society 



Imperial Department of Agri- 

 culture of the British West 

 Indies 



Trustees of the British Museum 



New York Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station 



Samuel G. Gordon 



Secretaria de Agricultura y 

 Fomento, Mexico 



California State Commission of 

 Horticulture 



Cuerpo de Ingenieros de Minas 

 del Peru 



Water Supply Commission of 

 Pennsylvania 



Utah Agricultural College Ex- 

 periment Station 8 



88 

 62 

 56 



54 

 40 

 30 



22 

 16 



15 

 12 



11 



9 



9 



9 



James Aitken Meigs Fund 8 



United States Department of 



Commerce and Labor 8 



Vermont Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station 8 



New York State Board of 



Charities 8 



Carleton College 7 



Thomas B. Wilson Fund 6 



Mrs. Samuel G. Dixon 6 



South Dakota School of Mines 6 



Edward J. Nolan 6 



Publication Committee of the 



Academy 5 



Commission of Conservation, 



Canada 5 



Dr. Henry Skinner 5 



Queensland Department of 



Mines 4- 



Indiana University 4 



United States War Department 3 



Government of India 3 



Witmer Stone 3 



Department of Conservation and 



Development, New Jersey ... 3 

 California Fish and Game Com- 

 mission 3 



Departmentof Fisheries, Bengal, 



Bihar and Orissa 2 



