xxvi Anminl Report of tJie Council. 



The Wilde Endowment Fund, which is kept as a separate 

 banking account, shows a balance of ^114. 2s. 2d. in its favour, 

 as against ;^66. iSs. id., at the beginning of the financial 

 year, there being an increase of ten pounds in the receipts from 

 the invested funds as compared with the receipts for several 

 years past. 



The Joule Memorial Fund has this year incurred an expendi- 

 ture of sixteen pounds five shillings by the purchase and repair 

 of a silver chronometer watch, formerly belonging to the late 

 Dr. J. P. Joule, which the Council has resolved to place in one 

 of the Society's rooms as a memorial of a distinguished past 

 President. 



The Librarian reports that during the session 876 volumes 

 have been stamped, catalogued and pressmarked, 759 of these 

 being serials, and 1x7 separate works. There have been written 

 366 catalogue cards, 211 for serials, and 155 for separate works. 

 The- total number of volumes catalogued to date is 31,549 for 

 which 11,225 cards have been written. 



Satisfactory use is made of the library for reference pur[)Oses, 

 but the number of volumes consulted is not recorded. During 

 the session, 175 volumes have been borrowed from the library, 

 as compared with 200 in the previous session. 



Further attention has been given to the comi)letion of sets, 

 68 volumes or parts having been obtained, which complete 

 three sets, and partly complete four. Of these, S volumes 

 were purchased, 20 volumes were presented by Mr. Francis 

 Nicholson, and the rest were presented by the societies publishing 

 them. 



A larger amount of binding than usual has been done this 

 session, 316 volumes having been bound in 228. 



A record of the accessions to the library shows that, from 

 Apiil, 190S, to March, 1909, 737 serials and 113 separate works 



