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received from one hundred and fifteen individuals and 

 seven societies and public bodies. 



The exchanges have been received from ninety-nine 

 societies and incorporate bodies, of which sixty-nine are 

 foreign. 



From the editors of the "American Naturalist" fifty- 

 one serial publications. 



In this connection the Librarian would state that there 

 is a box or shelf catalogue of the books in the upper hall ; 

 an accession catalogue, being a full list of the additions 

 to the library, chronologically arranged, and an alpha- 

 betical catalogue of a large portion of the library. A 

 full alphabetical catalogue of all the books and pamphlets 

 would be a great desideratum and would facilitate very 

 much the duties of the students and all others who may 

 have occasion to consult the library. The early attention 

 of the Institute is particularly requested to the consider- 

 ation of this subject. 



The arrangement of the manuscripts has been com- 

 pleted during the past year. All the manuscript papers 

 are now carefully assorted and placed either in bound 

 volumes or in packages, labelled on the back so that any 

 one can ascertain whether any desired manuscript is among 

 them without removing them from the shelves. It would 

 be a great advantage if this arrangement could be kept 

 up with all manuscript papers as they are brought in, for 

 nothing seems more useless than to keep them packed 

 away in closed drawers and in obscure corners out of 

 sight. Our manuscripts are now often consulted by gene- 

 alogists and others, and much gratification has been ex- 

 pressed at the manner in which a portion of them have 

 thus been made available. 



MUSEUM. Many valuable specimens in Natural His- 



