ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY. PAD | 
U. S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
Bureau of the Mint, Geo. E. Roberts, Director: Report of the director of the mint upon 
the production of precious metals in the United States, for 1897, 404 pages, 10 plates; for 
1898, 313 pages; for 1899, 435 pages, 18 half-tone plates. 
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Henry S. Pritchett, Superintendent: Annual report of 
the superintendent, 1898, 489 pages, many plates, map in pocket; 1899, 964 pages, many 
plates, map in pocket. Special publication No.4, the transcontinental triangulation, 
1900, 871 pages, many plates, map in pocket. 
ILLINOIS. 
CHIcAGO.—Armour Institute of Technology: Year-book, 1900-01. 
Chicago Academy of Sciences: Fortieth annual report, 1897, 28 pages. Bulletins: Nos. 2, 
3, 4, 500 pages, many plates and figures. 
Field Columbian Museum: Publication 51, anthropological series, vol. II, No. 4, 10 pages, 
11 plates. Publications 39, 43, 48, 50, botanical series, vol. I, Nos. 5, 6, 24 pages, 5 
plates; vol II, Nos. 1, 2, 123 pages. Publications 33-36, 44, 538, geological series, vol. I, 
Nos. 3-8, 144 pages, 16 plates. Publications 30-32, 37, 38, 40, 41, 49, 45-47, zoological series, 
vol. I, Nos. 11, 18, 104 pages, 16 plates; vol. II, 471 pages, 143 plates; vol. III, Nos. 1, 2, 14 
pages, 4 plates. Publications 29, 42, 52, report series, vol. I, Nos. 4-6, 252 pages, 40 plates. 
Library Bureau: Public Libraries, monthly, vol. IV, 1899, 472 pages; vol. V, 1900, 488 pages. 
University of Chicago, Department of Geology: Journal of Geology, semiquarterly, vol. 
VII, 1899, 842 pages, many illustrations; vol. VIII, 1900, 800 pages, many illustrations. 
PrortA.— Fred Boettger: Bulletin of the Peoria Scientific Association, 1887, 92 pages. 
SPRINGFIELD.—/Ilinois State Museum of Natural History: Bulletin No. 12, 69 pages, 5 plates 
of crinoids, etc. 
URBANA.— Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, S. A. Forbes, Director: Bulletin, vol. 
V, articles VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, 478 pages. Biennial report, 1897-98, 32 pages, 10 plates. 
INDIANA. 
Bioomineton.—J. W. Beede, Ph. D., University of Indiana: The stratigraphy of Shawnee 
county; the McPherson Equus beds; notes on Kansas physiography ; new fossils from 
the Kansas Coal Measures; Carboniferous invertebrates, 187 pages, 43 plates; a recon- 
noissance in the Blue Valley Permian, 12 pages, map. 
INDIANAPOLIS.— Department of Geology and Natural Resources, W. 8. Blaichley, State Geolo- 
gist: Twenty-third annual report, 1898, 1771 pages, 8 lithograph maps, numerous 
sketches; twenty-fourth, 1898, 1078 pages, 88 plates, 1 lithograph map. 
Indiana Academy of Science: Proceedings, 1898, 298 pages; 1899, 184 pages. 
IOWA. 
AmEs.— Towa Agricultural Experiment Station : Bulletins, Nos. 41, 66 pages; 53, 8 pages. 
DAVENPORT.— Davenport Academy of Sciences: Proceedings, vols. V, 1885-’89, 370 pages, 2 
plates, portrait ; VI, 1889-97, 392 pages, 34 plates; VII, 1897-’99, 280 pages, 17 plates. 
Des Mornes.— Jowa Academy of Science : Proceedings 1898, vol. VI, 234 pages, 7 plates. 
Towa Geological Survey: Vol, IX, annual report, 1898, 572 pages, 13 plates, 56 figures; vol. 
X, 1899, 666 pages, 10 lithograph maps, 11 plates, 102 figures. 
Towa Historical Society: Documentary material relating to the history of lowa; Iowa 
historical record, vols. XIV, XV, 1899, 1900. 
L. H. Pammel, Author: Contributions from the botanical department of Iowa State Col- 
lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Nos. 10-13. 
T. J. Fitzpatrick, Author: The Orchidacew of Iowa, 14 pages; ferns of Iowa and their 
allies, 14 pages. 
KANSAS. 
AvrcHIson.— E. B. Knerr, Ph. D.; Midland Monthly, occasional. 
ErrincHaM.— Lumina C. Riddle, Author: The embryology of alyssum, 11 pages, 3 plates. 
J. W. Beede, Ph. D. (see Bloomington, Ind.) 
Emportia.— State Normal School: Catalogues; twelfth biennial report. 
L. C. Wooster, Author: Educational values of the naturalsciences. Description of a new 
species of Hydreionocrinus, by S. Weller. 
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