SYNOPSIS OK PROCEEI)INC;S. 215 



EXTENDITUKES. 



Curator's salary $5"^ 00 



Janitor's salary iSo 00 



Door-keeper's salary 5^ 00 



Refunded C. E. Putnam 125 94 



Interest, C. E. Pickering 40 00 



Express on freight 4° '4 



Fuel 7207 



Gas 14 10 



Postage 2667 



Taxes and insurance 20 75 



Incidentals 54 5° 



$1,126 17 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 

 To THE President and Members of the Academy-: 



The increase in the library of the Academy during the past year has 

 been constant and regular, and about the same as the preceding year, 

 and including works on the usual variety of subjects. 



The whole number added is 2,465, and may be partially classified 

 as follows : 



Transactions of 45 societies in the United States 105 



Transactions of 100 foreign societies 150 



Government publications ... 100 



Archeology and Ethnology 25 



History and Biography 30 



Geography and Statistics 10 



Relating to Liljraries 20 



Medical and Health Reports 12 



Educational • 5^ 



Astronomy and Physics 10 



Meteorology 5° 



Geology and Palaeontology 40 



Zoology 12 



Ornithology 3 



Entomology 5° 



Botany 60 



Odd numbers of newspapers, etc 105 



Fourteen monthlies, ten weeklies, and two daily papers are received regularly. 



It has been impossible, as yet, to prejiare a catalogue of the hbrary, 

 which IS very much needed, and it is hoped that this may be done 

 within the coming year. 



No binding has been done for several years, and the number of 

 volumes which must be bound for proper preservation is rapidly in- 

 creasing, and now amounts to several hundred, of which no exact enu- 

 meration has been made. 



A section of shelving has been added, giving fifty fee^t additional 

 space, and making the shelf room now occupied about four hundred 

 and twenty feet, and more space is now greatly needed. About fifty 

 feet of shelf room is occupied by the duplicates, which are ot consid- 

 erable value, and I would recommend that these be disposed of as 

 soon as practicable to the best iidvantage in exchange for other books. 

 These shelves would then be available for the other books, and in ad- 



