1808.] 9 [Custodian. 



reading and the publication of a paper ; we now propose to 

 maintain the position we have gained and print every article 

 with the utmost promptness. 



By exchanges with correspondents we have sent away 270 

 parts of the Memoirs, 110 parts of the old Journal (half of 

 which were imperfect), 66 complete volumes of the Pro- 

 ceedings, unbound sheets which would more than double 

 the amount, and 41 coj^ies of the annual Reports. The 

 Smithsonian Institution, by its transmission of these publica- 

 tions to all parts of the world, free of expense, has laid us 

 under renewed obligations. 



In response to our requests we have received from the 

 following Societies many early volumes of their Transactions : 



Soci(5t6 des Sciences Natiirelles NeuchS.tel. 



Journal de Conchyliologie Paris. 



Eutomological Society London. 



Senckenbergische naturforschende Gesellschaft . . Frankfurt a. M. 



Naturhistorisch-medizinischer Verein .... Heidelberg. 



Imper. Russkoe Geographitsheskoe Obslitshestvo . . St. Petersburg. 



Obshtshestvo Seljskago Khozjaistva Joujnoi Rossii . . Odessa. 



Naturhistorische Gesellscbaft Niimberg. 



Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen . . . Middelburg. 

 Acad(iniie Impc^riale des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres. Dijon. 

 Soci^td des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles . . . Bordeaux. 

 Acaddmie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux- 

 Arts de Belgique Bruxelles. 



Naturforscliende Gesellschaft Bern. 



Naturhistorischer Verein Augsburg. 



Deutsche geologische Gesellschaft Berlin. 



Royal Society Edinburgh. 



Hollandscho Maatschappij der Wetenschappen . . Haarlem. 



Naturforschende Gesellschaft des Osterlandes . . Altenburg. 



Liverpool Geological Society Liverpool. 



Glasgow Philosophical Society Glasgow. 



Society Royale de Botanique de Belgique . . . Bruxelles. 



We must especially thank the Academy of Dijon, the 

 Geological Society of Berlin, the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh, the Society of Sciences at Haarlem and the Natui-al 

 History Society of Altenburg, which have favored us with 



