10 IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



the cise of those now being received. Neither is any mention made of 

 strictly medical or trade publications, or of the large number of valuable 

 works, such as the International Scientific Series, the Humboldt Library 

 of Science, etc. The titles set in italics are those which were purchased 

 upon the express recommendations of the academy. They show how ready 

 and generous has been the response of the state librarian and the board of 

 trustees of the library to the requests of the academy. 



SETS OF SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS IN THE STATE LIBRARY. 



American Association for the Advancement of Science, Proc, I-XLII. 



Amercian Geologist, fs. 



American Geological Society, BuL, I-VI. 



American Institute of Mining Engineers, Trans., fs. 



American Journal of Science, fs. 



American Naturalist, fs. 



American Philosophical Society, Proc, fs.; Trans., I-III, VI, n. s., fs. 



American Society of Civil Engineers, Proc, fs.; Trans., fs. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, fs. 



Annals of Botany, Vols. I- VII. 



Beiblatter zuden Annalen der Physik und Chemie, fs. 



British Association for the Advancement of Science, Repts., fs. 



Chemical Society (London), Journal, fs. 



Compt Rendus de VAcademie, 1895 — 



Histoire de I'Academie, 1699-1764; 



Memoire Adoptez de I'Academie, tm. I-XI; 



Machine de I'Academie, tm. I- VI. 

 Electrical World, fs. 

 Electrotechnische Zeitschrift, fs. 

 Engineering Magazine, fs. 

 Fontschrette der EleMro teknik, is. 

 Franklin Institute, Journal, fs. 

 Johns Hopkins University Circulars, 1896 — 

 Liebig's Annalen der Chemie, fs. 

 Linnean Society, Trans., fs. 

 Nature, fs. 



Neues Jahrbuchfur Geol u. s.f, 1895 — . 

 Philadelphia Academy of Science, Proc, I-XLVI. 

 Popular Science Monthly, fs. 



Reale Instotuto Lombardo di Scienze et Littere, Rend., I-IV n. s., I- 

 XXV. 



Science, fs. 



Scientific American (and supp's), fs. 



Van Nostrands Eclectic Engineering Magazine, fs. 



Wiedmans Annalen der Physik, fs. 



Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, nearly complete. 



Zeitschrift fur Instrumentkunde, f s. 



Zeitschrift fur Physicalische Chemie, fs. 



It will be noted that in several instances the state library owns the back 

 volumes of a given set, while the academy is receiving the current num- 

 bers; for example, the Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., Proc. Amer. As. Adv. 



