JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 571 



1. A. F. Bandelier; Observations on Ozone. 



2. Dr. Boisliniere: On the Deterioration of the Mixed Races. 



3. Judge N. Holmes : On Prehistoric Man. 



4. Dr. C. C. Parry: On the Permanent Snows in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. 



5. Dr. E. Sander: On the Rock Salt Formation of the Coast of Lou- 

 isiana, and its Chemical Composition. 



6. Dr. Arthur Schott : On the Cactus Flora of Yucatan. 



7. Dr. A. Wislizenus: On Atmospheric Electricity ; and other commu- 

 nications on the Relation of the same to Cholera, and on the Relation of 

 Thunderstorms to the Fire Alarm Telegraph. 



8. Dr. G. Engelmann: Meteorology of 1865; and other Meteorologi- 

 cal communications; on the Stage of the River in 1865; on Californian 

 Pines; on the American Species of the Genus Juncus, and on the Genus 

 Isoetes. 



Some of these communications have already been published in the last 

 number of our Transactions; others it is expected to communicate to the 

 scientific public through our next number. 



I have thus laid before you a fair statement of the present condition 

 of our Academy. I feel confident that you, and those who may join us 

 hereafter, will use your utmost exertions for the attainment of those 

 high aims for which our Academy was founded, and that our fellow- 

 citizens will appreciate and aid our labors in the fields of science, as our 

 co-laborers in other communities and other countries so generously do # 



The Librarian, Dr. G. Baumgarten, also read a report on 

 the number and condition of the library. 



EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



In a detailed tabular statement of all the books which is appended to 

 this report, I extract the following items : 



The library of the Academy contains — 

 9 folio volumes, 

 394 quarto volumes, 

 243 quarto pamphlets, 

 1,178 octavo volumes, and 

 601 octavo pamphlets, 



being 1,581 volumes and 

 843 pamphlets, 



Total, 2,424, adding to which some 20 volumes and pamphlets not 

 stamped, we obtain a grand total of 2,444. 



Of this number, 82 are deposited. 



The principal wealth of the library consists in its long lists of serials 

 obtained in exchange for the Academy's own publications. This list 

 embraces 192 quarto vols., 37 quarto pamphlets, 784 octavo vols., and 177 

 octavo pamphlets; total, 1,190. Of this number, 261 are American pub- 

 lications; from Canada we received 40 ; from Great Britain, 51 ; from 

 Germany, including Austria, 468; from Switzerland, 50; France and 

 Belgium, 89; Italy, 59 ; Spain and Portugal, 10 ; Holland, 77; Sweden, 

 Norway and Denmark, 34 ; Russia (aside from the Memoirs of the St. 

 Petersburg Academy, which are classified as separate works), 34 ; from 

 Bohemia and Hungary, in the Bohemian and Magyar language, 17. 



Of works on Natural Sciences, we have 6 folio and 84 quarto vols., 

 140 quarto pamphlets, 239 octavo volumes, and 305 octavo pamphlets — 

 total 774 ; among which 248 belong to Geology, 89 to Botany, and 207 to 

 Zoology. Of the other classes I will mention that of Geography, in 

 which are ranged 97 works, 49 of which are quarto volumes, as valuable 

 as they are bulky. 



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