386 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Fellows, 90 Life Members and 11 Patrons and 20 Non-resident Mem- 

 bers. There have been 10 deaths during the year, 12 resignations have 

 become effective, 7 names have been dropped from the roll for non- 

 payment of dues, 2 names have been transferred to the list of Non- 

 Resident Members. Twelve new members have been elected during 

 the year. As the membership of the Academy a year ago was 502, 

 there has been a net loss of 14 during the year 1912. Announcement is 

 made with regret of the loss by death of the following members : 



Col. John Jacob Astor, Active Member for 17 years. 

 George Borup, Active Member for 4 months. 

 Charles F. Cox, Active Member for 36 years. 

 Prof. Morris Loeb, Active Member for 20 years. 

 William Pennington, Active Member for 6 years. 

 Edward Kuss, Active Member for 5 years. 

 Prof. John B. Smith, Active Member for 5 years. 

 Isidor Straus, Active Member for 7 years. 

 James Terry, Life Member for 30 years. 

 Col. John Weir, Life Member for 6 years. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Recording Secretary. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



The accessions to the library of the New York Academy of Sciences 

 during the current year have been, by exchange and donation, 313 

 volumes and 1,670 numbers. Successful efforts have again been made 

 to complete imperfect files of publications and special acknowledg- 

 ments from the Academy are herewith extended to the Institutul Me- 

 teorologic al Romaniei for the presentation of nineteen volumes (1892- 

 1911) ; to the Verein fur Erdkunde zu Leipzig for the presentation of 

 five volumes (1865-1871) ; to the Belfast Natural History and Philo- 

 sophical Society for the presentation of seven volumes (1872-1881) and 

 to the Societe Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathematiques de 

 Cherbourg for the presentation of six volumes (1858—1864). I am also 

 pleased to report that the books of the Academy have been more ex- 

 tensively used than during any of the preceding years. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



Ralph W. Tower, 



Librarian. 



