14 IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. 

 Receipts. 



Balance from last year $ 63.16 



Ten membership fees at $3 _ 30.00 



Annual dues from members 58.00 



Proceedings sold 2.05 



Total $ 153.21 



Disbursements. 



Expenses of ninth annual meeting. $ 6.43 



Stationery and stamps, collecting dues 3.41 



Printing programs, circulars, etc 16.25 



Author's reprints Vol. II.. 50.00 



Express and postage on proceedings.. 19.25 



Clerk hire, exchange and miscellaneous expenses 1.88 



Balance 55.99 



Total $ 153.21 



Respectfully submitted. 



Herbert Osborn. 



The committee appointed to examine the accounts of the secretary- 

 treasurer reported as follows: 



The committee finds the accounts of the secretary to be correct. 



I C. C. Nutting, 

 Signed - C. O. Bates, 

 ( A. C. Page. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



Des Moines, Iowa, December 31, 1895. 



Gentlemen— I have the honor to submit the following report of my 

 work as librarian of the academy for the year past. The academy is now 

 receiving regularly forty-three serial publications, including the reports of 

 the most important American and some of the foreign societies. In addi- 

 tion, the reports of a considerable number of state and government bureaus 

 ai'e received. The papers are catalogued and placed in the alcove assigned 

 to the academy by the state librarian. "Within the past year exchanges 

 have been effected whereby all, or a considerable number, of the back 

 numbers of the following series have been placed upon our shelves: 



Transaations Connecticut Academy of Science. 



Bulletin New Brunswick Natural History Association. 



Proceedings Colorado Scientific Society 



Transactions St. Louis Academy of Science. 



Tufts College Studies. 



Proceedings Natural Science Association, Staten Island. 



Colorado College Studies. 



In two other cases exchanges were effected by the combined efforts of 

 the Academy of Sciences and the Geological survey. In these cases it was 



