678 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Dec, 



whereas they have now been transferred to the section of Journals 

 and Periodicals, where they properly belong. Similarly some of the 

 books in the Meigs Library have been removed from the miscellaneous 

 collection, which is only retained because of a condition imposed by 

 the donor, John G. Meigs. 1 The separated books have been placed 

 with related works in the general library. 



Special attention may be called to the following accessions: 



Nature Notes. London. Eighteen volumes. 



Giornale Arcadico di Scienze, Roma. Seventeen volumes. 



Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France; Paleontologie. Volumes V-XVI. 



Annates de V Universite de Grenoble. Twenty-one volumes. 



Thurston's Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Seven volumes. 



Grote, Vogt and Hofer's Siisswasser Fische von Miiteleivropa. 



George G. Heye Expedition, Contributions to South American Archceology. 



The Academy is indebted to His Royal and Imperial Highness the 

 Grand Duke Ludwig Salvator of Austria for the gift of twenty-three 

 superbly illustrated volumes, the privately printed records of many 

 years of travel and exploration. The works relate for the most part 

 to the geography, physical characters, ethnography and history of 

 some of the islands of the Mediterranean Sea and are finely illustrated 

 with hundreds of figures and plates. The collection includes a beauti- 

 ful panorama, twelve feet in length, of the Bay of Alexandrette, the 

 ancient Alexandria ad Issum. 



The books were secured through the active interest of the late 

 Dr. Theodore de Thodorovitch, who, as a member of the Academy 

 and in his official capacity as Austro-Hungarian Consul, represented 

 the claims of the library as a depository of the desired works based on 

 its importance to students of science and its liberality of adminis- 

 tration. 



It is a cause of sincere regret that the death of Dr. de Thodorovitch 

 before the arrival of the volumes deprived the Academy of the oppor- 

 tunity of making to him the acknowledgment of obligation he so well 

 deserved. 



We are also indebted to the Hon. Maurice Francis Egan, our Minister 

 to Denmark, for his co-operation in securing by exchange the valuable 

 publications of Dr. Wesenburg-Lund's Fresh-water Laboratory, which 

 we were not able to procure through the booksellers. 



The following new serials have been added to the library during 

 the year : 



1 See Report of Librarian for 1895. 



