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past year, 1375 separate publications, including 700 complete volumes. 

 Of this number of volumes there were received from the 



United States 439 



Canada 14 



Mexico 23 



Central America 3 



South America 3 



West Indies 4 



Austria 14 



Belgium 12 



France 28 



Germany. 42 



Great Britain 22 



Holland 5 



Italy 23 



Norway 8 



Portugal .' 9 



Roumania i 



Russia 16 



Sweden 9 



Switzerland 17 



Japan i 



Java 2 



Australia 5 



No effort was made during the past year to increase the number 

 of societies and institutions on our exchange list, but nine societies 

 solicited exchange of publications and have been entered on the list. 

 Seven societies that were on our list, but had not hitherto sent us pub- 

 lications during the last year, sent us their proceedings. We were 

 favored with personal publications of active and corresponding 

 members to the number of twenty-two pamphlets. 



One of the most valuable contributions to the library was from 

 Commander Franklin Hanford, U. S. N., and consisted of twenty-six 

 bound volumes of the Reports of the Coast and Geodetic Survey of 

 the United States from 1851 to 1876, inclusive. This gift makes our 

 set complete to date, and is all the more valuable because it is almost 

 impossible to obtain these particular reports, even by purchase. 

 Commander Hanford has also given us seventeen astronomical publi- 

 cations of the National Observatory at Washington, and twenty-nine 

 pamphlets of Ordnance Notes from the Ordnance Department of the 

 United States Army. 



The publications which we receive being largely the proceedings 

 of scientific societies, are mostly unbound, but the number of bound 

 volumes added during the year is greater than e^ er before, number- 

 ing eighty. 



Our collection has outgrown the limits of the space kindly allowed 

 us in Anderson Hall, University of Rochester, and there is urgent need 

 that other accommodations be secured where we shall not only have 

 more room, but where the publications will be accessible to the mem- 

 bers of the Academy. 



