354 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4th Ser. 



Department of Invertebrate Zoology 

 By W. K. Fisher, Curator 



Field work was done at three places on the Pacific Coast. 



Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Oldroyd made an extensive collection of marine 

 invertebrates at Friday Harbor, in the region of Puget Sound, Wash- 

 ington. Shore forms and those occurring in moderate depths were taken. 



In cooperation with the University of Southern California a dredging 

 trip was attempted in the vicinity of Santa Cruz Island, with their dredg- 

 ing boat, the Anton Dohrn. Owing to unfortunate accidents to machinery 

 and cable this did not result in many specimens. In lieu of these, the 

 University of Southern California substituted a number of duplicates from 

 their general collection. 



A little collecting was done in June at Monterey Bay by Mr. A. W. War- 

 nock and the curator. 



Report of the Librarian for 1917 

 By Edward P. Van Duzee, Assistant Librarian 



The work done in the library during the past year has been largely of 

 a routine character, although some advance has been made toward render- 

 ing the main collection of books more available to the student. The series 

 of periodicals and society publications in foreign languages have been 

 collated and arranged alphabetically in the lower library room and the 

 shelves properly labeled so these sets are now as readily accessible as are 

 those in the English language in the main reading room. One hundred 

 and twenty-six lineal feet of shelving have been added in the reading room, 

 all but the lowest and uppermost of which have supplemental shelves inter- 

 polated, this portion being used for the temporary shelving of current 

 serials, thus making it more convenient for students to learn what has 

 been published recently that may be of interest to them. In the lower 

 library room 128 lineal feet of shelving have been erected for geological 

 publications, and in the store room 416 lineal feet for duplicates and other 

 reserved material. 



Additions to the library during the year number 749 bound volumes 

 and many excerpts and other pamphlets which have not yet been acces- 

 sioned but many of which are of much value. These accessions are in 

 addition to the periodicals and society publications received by exchange 

 and from other sources. 



In planning for another year it seems very desirable that an assistant 

 be made available for at least a part of the time to attend to the acces- 

 sioning and cataloguing of the departmental collections and of books added 

 during the year as well as to keep up certain routine work connected with 

 the care of the main library, and that a reasonable sum of money be set 

 aside for the binding of serial sets that are liable to loss and mutilation in 

 their present form. It also seems proper that something be allotted to the 

 departmental libraries for the purchase of books, as scientific workers are 

 placed at a serious disadvantage if unable to procure certain books 

 important to the problems they may have in hand. 



