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Osborn, E. C. Quereau, G O. Smith, W.G. Tight, and J. A. Udden. This 
gives a total membership at this date of 242. Several Fellows are liable 
to be dropped from the roll for non-payment of dues, and there are four 
candidates now before the Society. 
_ Distribution of Bulletin—The distribution for the year is included in 
the following table: 
DISTRIBUTION OF BULLETIN FROM THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE DURING THE YEARS 
1891-1897 
Complete Volumes 
Vol.1. Vol. 2. Vol. 3. Vol. 4. Vol. 5. Vol. 6. Vol. 7. Vol. 8. 
Distributed to Fellows. .. 09 214 214 223 222 231 
Donated to“exchanges” 91 91 89 89 89 87 85 89 
Sold to libraries. .. .. 87 87 89 85 80 86 79 75 
Sold to Fellows ....... 22 15 9 5) 3 2 1 
Sent to Fellows, defi- 
CONE Sie Se eee 2 il Ht 
Womate diets tactic ti... 4 4 3 2 2 2 1 il 
Bound for offices and 
NAY Soomsn pone 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 
Volumesin reserve .. 55 305  347(?) 352(?) 343(?) 97(?) 109(?) 105 (?) 
Complete volumes re- 
ceived....... ...... 264 506 750(?) 750(?) 734 900 (?) 500(?) 500(?) 
Brochures 
1.1. Vol. 2 Vol.3: Vol.4, Vol.5.  Vol.6. Vol.7. Vol. 8. 
GIGI 6 faeeeene Pane ea to 48 132 46 43 26 11 12} 5 
Sent to libraries, defi- 
CHEM GS ee ae Sees anes 7 4 3 1 1 3 5 
Sold to Fellows........ 16 20 8 13 17 a 2 2 
Sold to the public..... 12 15 16 138 7 11 6 6 
Womated Feit cie tee es 3 3 3 3 2 
Subscriptions.—The list of libraries subscribing to the Bulletin was 
printed in the former report. ‘To that list is added seven libraries which 
have subscribed during the past year, as follows: 
Cambridge—Radcliffe College (brochures). 
Columbia—South Carolina College. 
Harrisburg—Pennsylvania State Library. 
Newark (New Jersey)—Free Public Library. 
Philadelphia—University of Pennsylvania (brochures). 
Sacramento—California State Library (brochures). 
West Point—United States Military Academy. 
This makes a total of 72 permanent subscribers. There are probably 
several other libraries which are keeping a file of the volumes, but their 
