36 TRANSACTIONS 



Chairman Burgess presented the report of the Scien- 

 tific Section, and Chairman Cooley that of the Board of 

 Trustees, incorporating the following report of the Com- 

 mittee on Library and Museum : 



JSTumber of Books received during the past year 31 



Society proceedings bound into volumes 63 



Total number of books in the library 1,362 



Total number of atlases and maps 66 



Number of miscellaneous pamphlets 386 



To the exchange list has been added the following : 



Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Chicago Academy of Sciences. 



Colorado College Scientific Society. 



Field Columbia Museum (Chicago). 

 ■ ^Natural Science Association of ^taten Island. 



Memoirs of the New York Academy of Sciences. 

 A new section has been added to the library cases, and 75 or 80 vol- 

 umes of Proceedings are in the binder's hands. 



To the Museum there have been added by purchase during the 

 year, twenty-five specimes of minerals ; a large collection of corals, 

 shells, sea-urchins, star-fish, etc., comprising more than one hundred 

 specimens ; two mounted groups of animals and birds in glass cases ; 

 one bald eagle (Haliaetus Leucocephalus) ; one American herring 

 gull (Larus argentatus) ; one pair of bufl:-breasted sheldrake (Mergus 

 merganser). An aerolite found in Stanford, Dutchess County, has 

 been presented by Martha Bockee Flint. 



Edward Elsworth, treasurer, presented the following 

 report for the year ending May 5, 1896 : 



CREDIT. 



By amount in Repair Fund, May 7th, 1895 $1,307 89 



" " "Museum " " " 673 60 



" " "General " " " 780 17 



' " " "Special " " " 2,262 63 



" cash received from Members 56 00 



" " " " Rubinstein Club 10 00 



" " interest on Repair Fund 250 00 



" " " " Museum" 500 00 



" " " " General" 625 00 



" " " " Special " 750 00 



$7,215 29 



