H4 Report of the President 



Other interesting accessions for the year are : 



Jacquelin Du Val, Pierre Nicolas Camille Genera des 

 Coleopteres d'Europe. 4 volumes, 4to. Paris 

 1857-1868 



Meheut, M. et Verneuil, P. Etude de la Mer. 4to. 

 Paris (1913) 



Tanaka, Shigeho Figures and Descriptions of the 

 Fishes of Japan. 8vo, 30 volumes. Tokyo 191 1- 

 1917 



Day, Francis The Fishes of Great Britain and Ire- 

 land. 2 volumes, 4to. London 1880- 1884 



Godart, (J. B.) Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres 

 ou Papillons de France. 14 volumes & 3 At- 

 lases. Paris 8vo. 1821-1842 



Wenckstern, Fr. von A Bibliography of the Japanese 

 Empire. 2 volumes. Tokyo 8vo. 1907-1910 



Materiaux pour VHistoire Primitive et Naturelle de 

 V Homme par G. de Mortillet. 22 volumes. 

 Paris 8vo. 1865-1888 



An inventory shows that the shelves now contain more than 

 100,000 volumes, many of which are monographs of extreme 

 interest and rarity. 



In order to secure more prompt and successful binding of 

 the scientific publications of the Museum, suitable machinery 

 has been placed in the bindery for doing edition work which 

 has been in partial operation since last July. This branch of 

 the work has correspondingly diminished the binding output 

 for the Library, a condition that will be remedied, it is hoped, 

 by later readjustments. Mr. Francis Curnan, blinded by 

 poison gas when a member of the United States Army in 

 France, has been employed, and has been unusually successful 

 both in operating certain of the machines and at various kinds 

 of bench-work — a commendable example to others who have 

 returned with no disabilities. 



