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with the exception of one purchased, were presented by the 

 respective societies publishng them. 



A considerable amount of binding has been done, 633 

 volumes having been bound in 549, and 125 volumes have 

 undergone repair, 



A record of the accessions to the library shows that, from 

 April, 1898 to March, 1899, 665 serials and 54 separate works 

 were received, a total of 719 volumes. By allowing for the 165 

 volumes obtained to complete sets, it will be seen that the normal 

 increase to the library has been 554 volumes. The donations 

 during the session (exclusive of the usual exchanges) amount to 

 50 volumes and 126 dissertations ; 4 books have been pur- 

 chased (in addition to the periodicals on the regular subscription 

 list). 



During the past session the Society has arranged to exchange 

 publications with the following : American Mathematical 

 Society, New York ; Astrophysical Journal, Chicago ; Augustana 

 College, Rock Island ; Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences ; 

 Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde, Berlin ; Illinois 

 State Laboratory of Natural History, Urbana; Instituto 

 Geoldgico de Mexico ; K. K. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, 

 Vienna ; Linnean Society of New South Wales, Sydney ; Museo 

 Nacional de Montevideo ; Philadelphia Commercial Museum ; 

 Science Abstracts, London ; South African Museum, Cape Town ; 

 University of Toronto ; Wisconsin Geological and Natural 

 History Survey, Madison. 



Through the co-operation of the Free Reference Library, 

 the Owens College, the Manchester Museum, and the Concho- 

 logical, Geographical, Geological, Medical, and Microscopical 

 Societies, the Council was enabled to publish, in December last, 

 a " List of the Current Scientific Serial Publications received by 

 the Principal Libraries of Manchester," which includes the serials 

 received by the above-mentioned institutions as well as those 

 taken by this Society. 



