ANNUAL REPORT. 307 



1913. 



other rooms, in addition to the Medical Libraiy, which 

 has for many yeai's been separated from the general 

 Library. The Council records with j^leasure its apprecia- 

 tion of the help given by Mr. J. Arnold, the Caretaker of 

 the Museum, in the rearrangement of the Library. 



The Library has twice been catalogued, in 1856 and 

 1885. The last Catalogue, w^hich has many defects in 

 classification and arrangement, has become almost useless, 

 for the Library has twice been rearranged, and no con- 

 venient record of additions has been kept. The prepara- 

 tion of a new subject Catalogue will perhaps prove too 

 great a task ; but it is hoped to prepare a Catalogue of 

 tile titles of the periodicals and an index of authore' 

 names. As a preliminary to a new Catalogue, the Honor- 

 ary Secretary-, with the assistance of the Honorary 

 Librarian and other members, undertook the preparation 

 of a list of the contents of the Library, which at the 

 same time was provisionally rearranged in accordance with 

 the Brussels system of classification. This work has re- 

 quired the closing of the Library for some months, and it 

 mav be necessary during the coming year for the Council 

 to ask members to submit to some further inconvenience 

 while the labelling of the books and the author-index are 

 being com-pleted. 



As a further aid to the use of the Library, the Coun- 

 cil resolved to purchase, so far as the Society's means^ 

 allowed, the Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 

 1800-1900, and the International Catalogue of Scientific 

 Literature. The Government of Tasmania, alone among the 

 Governments of Australia, has never subscribed to the 

 International Catalogue, and there is no set of it in Tas- 

 mania. The income of the Morton AUport Memoa'ial Fund 

 has not been spent in full for several years, and the 

 Council resolved that the accumulation of income, and 

 future income, be spent, in the main, in the purchase of 

 these Catalogues. The income, which is about £10 a year, 

 will not provide for purchasing more than half of the 

 annual volumes of the International Catalogue, to say 

 nothing of past volumes and of the 1800-1900 Catalogue; 

 but the Council is hopeful that if the membership con- 

 tinues to increase it niay be possible to devote some of 

 the Society's ordinary funds to this purpose. The volumes 

 purchased during the year were — the Royal Society Cata- 

 logue of Scientific Papers (1800-1900), Subject Index, vols. 

 I., II., and III. (Pt. 1); International Catalogue, the first 

 eleven issues for General Biology, Geologv, and Zoology. 



The Council found, however, that the most urgent 



