792 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Expenditures. 



Publications $3,267.53 



Sundries: Moving 15.20 



Vault Rent 12.50 



Interest on Bonds, bought 49 .55 



Income transferred to Principal .... 138.78 $3,483.56 



Balance April 1, 1913 1,067.04 



1,550.06 



May 14, 1913. 



The following reports were also presented: 



Report of the Library Committee. 



During the past j'ear the books on Arts and Sciences, the Periodicals 

 and Society Publications, the books on Mathematics and those on 

 Astronomy — these forming the first four of our 32 classes — have 

 been transferred from the stack to the fourth floor of the main build- 

 ing. The space released in the stack has been utilized by rearranging 

 the books of the remaining 28 classes. It is estimated that the avail- 

 able shelf-room will suffice for fifteen years' growth at the present 

 rate. 



The question of protection against fire has given the committee 

 serious concern, in view of the close proximity of our stack to the backs 

 of the Boylston Street buildings. 



The best remedy was believed to be the substitution of wired glass 

 in the east wall of the stack, and this change has been made at an 

 expense of $757. 



Pressure of other work has prevented any progress in the important 

 task of filling gaps in our serial publications. The arrangement of 

 the unbound pamphlets is nearly completed. The folios have been 

 transferred temporarily to the broader sheh'es of the entrance hall. 



A complete set of the Academy publications has been placed in the 

 reading-room, together with the International Catalogue of Scientific 

 Literature. 



87 books have been borrowed from the library during the year by 

 19 persons, including 16 Fellows and 4 libraries. All but one book 

 has been returned for examination, or satisfactorily accounted for. 



