Vol. V] GRUNSKY— PRESIDENT'S REPORT FOR 1914 5 



ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY 



There have been the usual accessions to the Hbrary resulting 

 from purchase, subscriptions to periodicals, and from ex- 

 changes. There have also been many donations as set forth 

 in the appendix to the Director's report. Only a few of the 

 more important donations will be mentioned here. 



1. A collection of about 200 volumes and pamphlets from 

 the late Professor William Eimbeck, received through Captain 

 Ferdinand Westdahl of the United States Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey. 



2. Through the courtesy of Senator Geo. C. Perkins the 

 library now receives regularly the Congressional Record, as 

 issued. 



3. The Director has presented to the library a bound set 

 of the Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 

 This set comprises Volumes I-XIII, and is complete. 



4. Mr. Horace Davis has presented to the library a com- 

 plete original set of the publications of the Academy. The 

 volumes are handsomely and substantially bound and con- 

 stitute the most perfect set of the Academy's publications which 

 it possesses. 



5. A large number of pamphlets from the Gray Herbarium, 

 among them many of the papers by Professor Asa Gray and 

 Professor Sereno Watson. 



6. Thirty-one numbers of the Journal of Morphology, 

 from the Wistar Institute. 



7. About 40 early numbers of the Proceedings of the 

 California Academy of Sciences from Professor W. G. Farlow. 



PUBLICATIONS 



The Academy has published during 1914 five papers: One 

 is No. X (Proc, 4th Sen, Vol. H, Part 1) of the series re- 

 lating to the Expedition to the Galapagos Islands, and the 

 other four are in continuation of Vol. IV, Fourth Series of 

 the Proceedings, as follows : 



The Gigantic Land Tortoises of the Galapagos Archipelago. 

 By John Van Denburgh. Fourth Series, Vol. II, No. X, 

 pp. 203-374, plates 12-124. Published September 30, 1914. 



