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fire in the bindery. Four numbers of the current Proceedings (62 pages 



and 4 plates) were printed at the cost of the Rumford Fund ($266.22). 



The total expenditure for printing falling on. the General Fund was 



$2438.82. The appropriation was $2400, and the return from sales 



$101.01, leaving an unexpended balance of $62.19. The Committee 



recommends for the coming year an appropriation of $2400, the same as 



in the last. 



For the Committee, 



Samuel H. Scudder, Chairman. 



Report of the Committee on the Library. 



The two most important matters relating to the Library have been the 

 installation of a steel stack for folios by the Massachusetts Historical 

 Society, on the same terms as the other stacks were furnished, and the 

 commencement of a new card catalogue of subjects and authors, for which 

 $200 was appropriated last year. About 1300 cards, covering nearly 

 the whole of the works on mathematics and astronomy, have been type- 

 written at a total cost of $70.62. 



The reappropriation of $100 and an appropriation of $100 from the 

 income of the Rumford Fund is requested to continue this work and to 

 purchase a catalogue case. 



The accessions during the year have been as follows : 



Vols. Parts of toIs. 



By gift and exchange .... 473 2027 



By purchase — General Fund . 28 717 



By purchase — Rumford Fund . 36 340 



Total 537 3084 



Last year the total number of accessions was 3224. 



28 volumes and 717 parts of volumes were bought with the appropria- 

 tion from the income of the General Fund at an expense of $339.52 ; 

 340 parts of volumes were bought with the appropriation from the income 

 of the Rumford Fund for $101.48; 36 volumes of the " Fortschritte der 

 Physik," needed to complete the set to date, for which a special appro- 

 priation was made from the income of the Rumford Fund, have been 

 purchased at an expense of $202.66; 698 volumes were bound at an 

 expense of $925.41, of which $861.11 was charged to the General Fund 

 and $64.30 to the Rumford Fund. 



A. Lawrence Rotch, 

 Librarian and Chairman of the Committee on Library. 



