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the card catalogue. The most that I have succeeded in doing 

 in the last matter is the arrangement of these volumes or 

 pamphlets on definite shelves, according to their subjects, a 

 grouping which will, I think, temporarily, at least, serve a useful 

 purpose. Thus, the visitor who wishes to determine whether a 

 separate book or pamphlet is in the library, say on the subject of 

 Zoology, will be told that if an octavo he will find it in case 

 27, or if a quarto in case 41, shelves i and 2, or 4 and 6. If 

 the book is, as is usually the case, entered in the card catalogue, 

 the visitor will have no difficulty, I think, in thus securing his 

 book with very little loss of time. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Bashford Dean, 



Librarian. 



REPORT OF THE EDITOR. 

 February 26, 1900. 



The Editor desires to make the following report for the past 

 Academy year : 



Volume XII of the Annals, Part I, comprising 3 papers of 

 89 pages, with 4 figures, has been printed and distributed. 

 Parts II and III of Volume XII will be issued together, making 

 a total of 14 papers and about 600 pages in the complete 

 volume. Of these numbers 4 to 9 have been issued as author's 

 separates. 



Six numbers, in all about 250 pages, are already in hand for 

 printing in Volume XIII. 



Volume II, Parti of the Memoirs, entitled "The So-Called 

 Devonian Lamprey, Palceospondylus gitiini, with notes on the 

 systematic arrangement of the fish-like vertebrates," Bashford 

 Dean, 4to, pp. 1—32; pi. I (litho), January 20, 1900, has been 

 distributed; and Volume II, Part II, entitled "The Egg of the 

 Hag-Fish, Myxine o;lutiiiosa,'' Bashford Dean (7 typewritten 

 pages and i plate), is in press. 



