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Early in the present year Walter E. Bryant made a visit 

 to Lower California in the interest of the Society, in order 

 to study the habits and secure good specimens of its birds 

 and mammals. A stay of a few months enabled him to make 

 large accessions to our ornithological collections. Being 

 alone, he was unable to penetrate the interior sufficiently to 

 secure a complete series, especially of the mammals, and it is 

 hoped that the Society will undertake at once the fuller explo- 

 ration of this still almost unknown field which lies at our 

 doors, and promises so rich a reward in material for scien- 

 tific investigation, before it shall have been stripped by ex- 

 plorers sent out b}' Eastern and foreign societies. 



The exchanges with foreign societies, whereby our Library 

 is mainly increased, have been kept up and largely extended, 

 and subscriptions have been made to the principal scientific 

 journals which cannot be obtained by exchange. 



The bibliographic catalogue of the Library has been com- 

 pleted to date, and will be published in the forthcoming 

 volume of our proceedings. I need not inform you that 

 such a catalogue will prove to be a great convenience to 

 members and others who may wish to consult scientific 

 works. 



We have published during the year two parts, the first 

 on the Anatomy of a New Annelid; the second, on Antiqu- 

 ties of the Pacific Slope of Guatemala — both by Gustav 

 Eisen — of the second volume of our Memoirs, and the title- 

 page and index of Volume I, which remained without those 

 necessary adjuncts for twenty years. Index and title-page 

 has also been printed for Proceedings VII, Part I, complet- 

 ing the volume, now tAvelve years old. 



The second series of Proceedings has been commenced 

 by the publication of Part I. Part II embracing, in addi- 

 tion to the papers, the proceedings proper of the last two 

 years, and completing the volume, is now in press, and will 

 be issued during the present month. 



The papers read before the Academy during the year 



