RECORDS OF MEETINGS OF 1909 
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REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 
The library of the New York Academy of Sciences has received during 
the year 1909, through exchange and donation, 309 volumes, 48 separata 
and 1502 numbers. Special acknowledgments are herewith made to those 
institutions which have made gifts of available lacuna in our files of their 
publications,— especially to the Deutscher Naturwissenschaftliehmedizin- 
ischer Verein fur Bohmen “Lotos” in Prag for a complete set of their pub¬ 
lications since 1853 to date, and also for 9 volumes of the “Abhandlungen 
clerk. Akademie der Wissenschaft in Berlin” dating from 1816 to 1826. 
A complete list of the exchanges of the Academy is submitted herewith. 1 
Respectfully submitted, 
Ralph W. Tower, 
Librarian. 
REPORT OF THE EDITOR. 
The Editor reports that during the past fiscal year Part III, completing 
Volume XVIII, was distributed, and that Numbers 1 to 5 inclusive of Part I 
of Volume XIX have been printed. Part III of Volume XVIII contained 
the following papers: 
“An Investigation of the Figure of the Sun and of Possible Variations in 
its Size and Shape.” By Charles Lane Poor. 
“Outline of the Geology of Long Island, N. Y.” By W. O. Crosby. 
“Charles Darwin and the Mutation Theory.” By Charles F. Cox. 
“Records of Meetings, 190S.” By Edmund Otis Hovey. 
The numbers of Part I of Volume XIX that have already been distributed 
are the following: 
“Darwin Memorial Celebration.” By Edmund Otis Hovey. 
“Plan and Scope.” Correlation Bulletin No. 1. By Henry F. Osborn 
and W. D. Matthew. 
“Studies on the Morphology and Development of Certain Rugose Corals.” 
By Thomas Claeher Brown. 
“The Fossil Vertebrates of Belgium,” By Louis Dollo. Correlation 
Bulletin No. 2. Translated by W. D. Matthew. 
“On the Origin and Sequences of the Minerals of the Newark (Triassic) 
Igneous Rocks of New Jersey.” By Wallace Goold Levison. 
1 See page 335. 
