298 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Special mention, also, is deserved the donation of Dr. W. F. 

 McNutt, of this city, who presented to our library the three 

 Vols, of Prof. Alex. Agassiz's " Kevision of the Echini " — a 

 work of rare value which is very difficult to procure, even at 

 its present price of $60. 



There are now being bound, and nearly ready for delivery 

 from the bindery, 312 volumes. 



The importance attached to the library may be measured 

 by the almost exclusive correspondence being carried on 

 with other societies concerning our publications, and the 

 completing of broken sets of proceedings, etc. 



The card cataloguing by authors and subjects has been 

 steadily prosecuted, but it was found necessary at the be- 

 ginning of the year, before resuming the work, to determine 

 accurately the amount of cards written by Mr. Churchill, who 

 was employed the year previous in doing this kind of work. 

 The Council appointed its own members as a Commit- 

 tee of the Whole to carefully count the cards. The result 

 proved that precisely 52,685 were written, as against 125,- 

 000 reported by Mr. Churchill at the last annual election. 

 Unfortunately, however, the gre;iter portion of these 

 were, upon examination, found to be unclassified; and in 

 order to render them available, a great deal of labor and 

 time was required — in fact, it takes nearly as much time to 

 classify a card as to write it. 



The book catalogue of our library, completed to date, 

 is to be published in our forthcoming volume of pro- 

 ceedings. This, it is believed, will prove of very great 

 utility to our members and to scientific students, besides 

 furnishing data by which foreign societies can estimate its 

 value and importance. 



EEPORT OF DIRECTOE OF MUSEUM. 



In most of the departments the work performed by the 

 the curators has been simply the care and preservation of 

 their respective collections. The additions to the museum, 

 not included in the appended reports, are the following: 



