In concluding this account of our Museum, it must not be supposed that 

 all its objects have been enumerated, for there are many others amounting 

 to hundreds of specimens which cannot now be noticed. 



LIBRARY. 



Our Library is the best and most extensive west of the Alleghany Moun- 

 tains. It consists of about 3,200 volumes and pamphlets, kept in admirable 

 order and preservation by our Librarian, Dr. G. H. E. Baumgarten, who 

 without compensation has generously devoted much time and labor to its 

 classification and arrangement. 



Many of the volumes are neatly and substantially bound, the funds for 

 this purpose having been furnished by a few of the members. The Library 

 is particularly rich in memoirs and transactions of foreign and home soci- 

 eties, many of them being of the most costly character. At the present time 

 we are receiving regularly the transactions of upwards of 170 foreign acad- 

 emies and societies, and of about 75 home societies. These are sent to us 

 in exchange for our own publications, of which two large octavo volumes 

 have been published, embracing about 1,400 pages, and profusely illustrated 

 with maps, and diagrams, and engravings of objects of natural history. 



Papers. During the past year, papers have been read before the Academy 

 by Dr. Edmunson, and Messrs. Wislizenus, Holmes, Swallow and Spencer 

 Smith; and many scientific subjects have been brought before the Society, 

 and discussed by its members. 



Removal. From the organization of the Academy to the present time, 

 our meetings have been held in the Dispensary Building, rooms having 

 been generously provided by Dr. C. A. Pope, and, since his removal to Eu- 

 rope, by Dr. John P. Hodgen, free of expense to the Academy. We are now 

 expecting to remove our Library and Museum to the Polytechnic Building, 

 where it is hoped sufficient accomodations will be allotted to us to arrange 

 our collections and Library in rooms which will be more accessible to the 

 public. It is confidently believed that in a few days arrangements will be 

 perfected that will be satisfactory to both the Institute and the Academy. 



The election of officers of the Academy for the ensuing year 

 resulted in the choice of the following gentlemen : 

 President — Benjamin F. Shumard, M.D. 

 1st Vice-President — Adolphus Wislizenus, M.D. 

 2d Vice-President — John Green, M.D. 

 Corresponding Secretary — Charles E. Briggs, M.D. 

 Recording Secretary — Spencer Smith. 

 Treasurer — Dr. Enno Sander. 

 Librarian — G. H. E. Baumgarten, M.D. 



