Dr. Briggs, from the Committee on Library, made a statement 

 of what had been done during the year, and read the following 

 letter from the Librarian : 



Public School Library, St. Louis, Jan. 3, 1876. 

 Dr. C. E. Briggs, Ch. Com. on Library of the Academy of Science. 



Dear Sir:— On conferring with Geo. Brooke, I find that more work has 

 been done than I thought. All the unbound books and pamphlets have 

 been compared with the Catalogue and located in permanent places on 

 the shelves of the book-cases. It only remains to compare the bound vol- 

 umes with the Catalogue ; numbering and labeling them at the same time ; 

 and to re- write such of the cards as have needed correcting during the pro- 

 cess of comparing. I am satisfied that the employment of Geo. Brooke 

 for one month more, at the same rate of payment as last month, will finish 

 up everything, so that for the future I can keep the Catalogue always up 

 to date, without further expense to the Academy. I should add that the 

 Transactions of the Academy have been tied up in bundles of 20 each, 

 carefully covered with strong wrapping-paper, each package numbered, 

 and the whole placed where they are safe and easily accessible. 

 With great respect, your obed't servant, 



J. J. BAILEY, Librarian. 



The Corresponding Secretary submitted his annual report, as 

 follows : 

 To the President of the Academy of Science. 



I have to report that the operations of the Corresponding Secretary 

 have continued in the usual manner, and with good success, for the last 

 year. One number of our Transactions has been issued and distributed 

 abroad, and another number is nearly through the press. We have re- 

 ceived from Foreign Societies numerous publications of great value, in 

 exchange, which have been duly placed in the library. Six new Foreign 

 Societies have been added to our list of exchanges within the year. Four 

 Corresponding Members have been elected during the year. Of the new 

 exchanges, one is in Mexico, one in England, one in Italy, and three in 

 the East Indies. 



The Smithsonian Institution has, as heretofore, been the medium of 

 transmission of our foreign exchanges, without other expense to us than 

 the cost of transportation between Washington and St. Louis. 



The receipts of the Corresponding Secretary for the year have been 

 $57,68, and his expenditures $53.26, leaving a balance on hand of $4.42, 

 of which a particulur account is herewith submitted. 



Of the amount, $12 were received from the sale of Transactions and 

 $30 from the Treasurer. The expenditures were chiefly for freight and 

 postage. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



NATHANIEL HOLMES, Corr. Sec. 



