RECORDS 21 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



The work in the Library during the past year has been 

 directed toward clearing up the accumulations in exchanges 

 during the period of financial stress through which the Academy 

 has been passing ; and the Librarian is glad to be able to state 

 that through the energy of the present assistant, Mr. W. M. 

 Erb, all material up to date is now sorted, catalogued and filed 

 on the shelves and open to reference to members of the 

 Academy. 



The great need of the Library is still, as it has been for a 

 number of years past, an appropriation for the binding of books. 

 Hundreds of volumes of periodicals have now accumulated and 

 while every effort is made to preserve them intact considerable 

 injury and loss is unavoidable. A second need is adequate 

 cataloguing by expert hands. The usefulness of the Library 

 w^ould be much increased if this could be provided. With the 

 limited appropriation at present at the disposal of the Librarian 

 it has seemed wiser to concentrate the energy upon keeping 

 the accessions in order rather than to divert any portion of the 

 funds to the two purposes suggested. The same policy will 

 doubtless be pursued during the coming year. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Livingston Farrand, 



Librarian. 



REPORT OF THE EDITOR. 



Volume XIII of the Annals, Parts 2 and 3, comprising four 

 papers, together with the Records of the Meetings of the 

 Academy, from January, 1900, to December, 1900, have been 

 printed and distributed. This completes Volume XHI of the 

 Annals, which consists of seven papers, together with the 

 Records forming a volume of 542 pages and 16 plates. 



Volume XIV of the Annals, Part i, has also been printed 

 and distributed, and this Part consists of four papers of 84 pages 

 and 5 plates. Volume XIV, Part 2, containing the Records 

 of the Meetings of the Academy for the year January, 1901, 



