1910.] 



NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 



677 



These accessions were distributed to the several departments of 

 the library as follows : 



Journals 5,717 



Agriculture 405 



Geology 304 



Botany 270 



Voyages and Travels 133 



■General Natural History _ 125 



Entomology 123 



Geography 97 



Anatomy and Physiology 76 



Anthropology 62 



Mammalogy 39 



Conchology 38 



Helminthology 



Medicine 



Mineralogy 



Ornithology 



Physical Sciences. 



Ichthyology 



Bibliography 



Chemistry 



Herpetology 



Mathematics 



Encyclopedias 



Unclassified „ 



34 



30 



26 



24 



24 



21 



13 



7 



6 



5 



4 



20 



Five hundred and forty-three volumes have been bound, being 

 but little more than the unbound accessions of the year. The accu- 

 mulation of unbound volumes has been nearly all put in proper shape 

 by the liberal appropriations of the few preceding years. 



A careful count of the books now in the possession of the Academy 

 furnishes the following statistics : 



Journals 



Geology 



General Natural History 



Botany 



Voyages and Travels 



Anatomy and Physiology... 



Anthropology 



Entomology 



Ornithology 



Conchology 



Dictionaries and Encyclopedias. 



Agriculture. 



Medicine 



Bibliography 



Physical Science. 

 Mineralogy 



32,926 Geography 640 



3,851 Mathematics 577 



3,458 Mammalogy 430 



3,405 Ichthyology 405 



2,307 Helminthology 311 



1,961 Philology 298 



1,573 Chemistry 293 



1,379 Herpetology 204 



1,054 Meigs Library (Miscellaneous).... 1,794 



952 Warner Library (Miscellaneous) 132 



891 Library of the Entomological 



882 Section (American Entomol- 



809 ogical Society) 4,150 



744 Unclassified 374 



690 



671 67,161 



This is an increase of 15,912 volumes since the enumeration of 1901. 

 In view of the strictly special character of the library this should be 

 regarded as a gratifying exhibit. It represents the steady current 

 growth of the collections, no large libraries having been received 

 en bloc. The separate pamphlets have not been counted, but an 

 estimate has been made of the number of volumes those still unbound 

 would make if arranged uniformly with the rest of the collection. 



Many of the volumes in the library of the Entomological Section 

 are duplicates of those on the shelves of the Academy. There is an 

 apparent falling off of 121 volumes on Conchology instead of an in- 

 crease, but this is accounted for by the fact that the Conchological 

 journals were formerly plaeed with the special books on that subject, 



