XXX Annual Report of the Council. 



College of surplus shelving, which was acquired by the Society on 

 very favourable terms. 



During the year the Wilde Fund, consisting of ;^3,ooo 

 Consolidated lo % Ordinary A Stock of the Gas Light and Coke 

 Company, was exchanged for ;^7,5oo 4% Ordinary Stock, in 

 conformity with the Company's Act of Parliament. 



The Council has printed in the Memoirs an abstract of the 

 paper " On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat," by Professor 

 Osborne Reynolds and Mr. Moorby, published in the Philosoph- 

 ical Transactions of the Royal Society, and has charged the 

 expense to the Joule Fund. 



The re-cataloguing of the library has been continued during 

 the session and substantial progress made, 11,275 volumes 

 having been catalogued, stamped and pressmarked, 11,181 of 

 these being serials, and 94 separate works. There have been 

 written 2,193 catalogue cards; 2,040 for serials, and 153 for 

 separate works. The total number of volumes catalogued to 

 date is 20,019, fo'' which 5,483 cards have been written. The 

 books catalogued up to the present include the serial publications 

 issued in Great Britain and Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, 

 Holland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, 

 Austria-Hungary, Russia, Greece, and India ; also the separate 

 works relating to Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, 

 Botany, Zoology, and Medicine. 



During the session, 122 volumes have been borrowed from 

 the library, as compared with 234 volumes in the previous 

 session; it is hoped that, as the cataloguing progresses and 

 affords increased facilities for quickly finding any work required, 

 members will make further use of the valuable collection of 

 books possessed by the Society. 



Attention has again been paid to the completion of sets, 

 with the result that 108 volumes or parts have been obtained 

 which render 16 sets complete, whilst 57 volumes have been 

 acquired which partly complete 12 sets. These 165 volumes, 



