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fund will probably be as useful, and can be obtained with perhaps as little 

 effort, as any contributions that could be received for the Academy. We 

 cannot expect that the invested funds will grow very rapidly, but, if we suc- 

 ceed in increasing them even four or five hundred dollars per year, we shall 

 soon have a very respectable income without relying wholly or even in part 

 upon the dues of members." 



The Librarian reported that during 1898 exchanges had been 

 received from 276 societies, of which five had this year been 

 added to the exchange list. In all 941 numbers were reported 

 as having been added to the library, an increase of 104 as 

 compared with the preceding year. It was reported that 

 during the year the Transactions of the Academy had been 

 distributed to 527 societies or institutions, chiefly by exchange 

 or donation. 



