84 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



REPORT OF LIBRARIAN. 



To THE Cincinnati Society of Natural History: 



The plans for the enlargement of the Society's building 

 during the past year embraced special accommodations for 

 the library, which is now located in a well-lighted room, on 

 the second floor, and jointl}' occupied as a reading-room by 

 the Photographic Section. 



In this room our volumes are arranged on the shelves of 

 ten large book-cases, each provided with glazed double doors. 

 In addition to these there are three similar cases in the Sec- 

 retary's room, on the first floor. The latter are occupied 

 principally by unbound pamphlets, exchanges and the latest 

 reports. 



Our library, at the present date, consists of 2,409 bound 

 volumes and about 1,800 pamphlets and exchanges. The 

 bound volumes comprise valuable works of reference in gen- 

 eral science, comprehensive reports of National and State sur- 

 veys, and monographs and elaborate treatises on special sub- 

 jects. 



The following departments of science are fairly well repre- 

 sented, namely : Geology, including paleontology and miner- 

 alogy; chemistry, physics and microscopy; botany and for- 

 estry ; zoology, including conchology, ichthyology, entomol- 

 ogy and ornithology ; anthropology, ethnography and arch- 

 aeology. 



The quarterly Journal, jniblished by our Society, contain- 

 ing, as it does, a report of the vSociety's proceedings, and the 

 most important scientific papers contributed by its members, 

 is highly appreciated by scientists in both hemispheres, and 

 secures for us a large and valuable exchange list. The.se ex- 

 changes number one hundred and sixty-eight, of which 

 eighty, or nearly one-half, are American, and the remainder 

 come from scientific associations in luirope, Asia, Africa, 

 Australia and South America. 



It has been the custom of our Society to bind from forty to 

 fifty volumes of exchanges and pamphlets each year, but, 

 owing to a diversion of the vSociety's funds to building pur- 

 po.ses during the past year, no additional volumes have been 

 bound, and there is a considerable accumulation of verv im- 



