1899.] NATURAL SCIENCES OP PHILADELPHIA. 537 



Anthropology, .... 26 | Mineralogy, .... S 



Medicine, 23 i Ichthyology, .... 8 



Physical Science, ... 17 : Bibliography, .... 7 



Helminthology, . . . 11 Chemistry, 6 



Geography, 10 1 Encyclopaedias, ... 3- 



Two hundred and forty-nine volumes have been bound, nearly 

 all at the expense of the special funds. A much larger appropria- 

 tion than is at present available for this work is a pressing necessity. 



The additional shelving supplied by nine new cases on the entresol 

 floor has measurably relieved the crowding in the English and a part 

 of the German sections of the library of periodicals and journals. 

 The remaining portions still remain so crowded as to make the 

 contents difficult of access. It is hoped that additional room may 

 be secured during the coming year. 



About five hundred volumes of industrial and miscellaneous 

 reports, in no way related to the natural sciences, were, by direc- 

 tion of the Council, transferred to the Free Library, where they 

 Avill be placed at the service of those interested in them, thus in- 

 creasing their usefulness and making available the space occupied 

 by them for the arrangement of works of more importance to the 

 Academy. 



Like ends were secured by the printing and distribution of a 

 catalogue of the duplicate books which had been accumulating for 

 years. The list embraces 1,154 titles of 1,061 volumes and 1,470 

 pamphlets. An intimation having been received from Washing- 

 ton after the issue of the catalogue that government publications 

 could not be thus disposed of by societies to which they had been 

 sent, all such volumes and pamphlets were withdrawn from sale so 

 as to prevent misunderstanding, although some of those on the list 

 were gifts from other sources than the departments of the govern- 

 ment and some were paid for by exchange. The sales, Avhile not 

 very numerous, have much more than repaid the cost of printing 

 and distributing the list. 



With the cooperation of the Free Library of Philadelphia, a 

 transcript of our card catalogue of periodicals has been made as a 

 contribution to a proposed cooperative catalogue of journals in 

 the libraries of the city. The Academy's contribution consists 

 of upward of 2,500 titles, many of them not found in other 



