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EEPOET OP THE LIBRAEIAN. 



The Librarian has pleasure in reporting many valuable accessions 

 and additional exchanges during the year 1903-4. 



Towards the end of 1902 a circular letter was sent to a number of 

 well-known societies whose publications were not received by this 

 Society nor by any other institution in Cape Town. It was sym- 

 pathetically answered in all cases in which an answer was received. 

 The Gottingen, the Leipzig, and the Vienna Academies of Science 

 have agreed to send from the present time the scientific sections of 

 their publications in exchange for our Transactions. The societies 

 of Eome, of Naples, and of Turin have agreed to do the same. In 

 addition, these societies have agreed to let this Society have their 

 publications in exchange for ours for all years for which our Society 

 has publications of its own to offer in return. It has also been 

 arranged to have exchanges with the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, and with the Gesellschaft Deutscher 

 Naturforscher und Aerzte. 



The Institution of Civil Engineers has supplied copies of its 

 Minutes and Proceedings, completing as far as it was able the set of 

 its publications in the possession of this Society. 



The Eoyal Colonial Institute has presented a set of its publications. 

 Volumes, or parts of volumes, missing, have been received from the 

 Societe des Sciences Naturelles de l'ouest de la Erance ; from Mr. 

 H. C. Eussell, in connection with the Meteorology and Eainfall 

 publications of New South Wales ; from the Institut Colonial de 

 Marseilles ; and from the Faculte des Sciences de Marseilles ; the 

 Geographical Journal ; Scottish Geographical Magazine ; the Secre- 

 tary of the Meteorological Commission, Cape Town ; the Government 

 Entomologist, Cape Town ; and the Director of the Geological Survey, 

 Cape Town 



The Entomological Society of Holland has presented the Society 

 with a complete set of its publications. 



The Society owes thanks to these and to other societies for the 

 ordinary exchanges of the year. The Society has also to acknowledge 

 with thanks the receipt of copies of author's reprints received from 

 Messrs. H. C. Eussell, E. Cohen, Charles Janet, S. S. Hough, L. 

 Crawford, J. C. Beattie, F. P. Mennell. 



The Cape Government has generously donated a set of the parts 

 of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature which have 



