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Trustee, to fill a vacancy in the Board. At the same meeting 

 the sum of 8636,300 was appropriated to carry on work of inves- 

 tigation, publication and administration during the year 1909. 



2. Report of the Librarian of Congress and Report of the 

 Superintendent of the Library Buildings and Grounds for the 



fiscal year ending June 30, 1908. Pp. 143. Washington, 1908. 

 — The Library of Congress is so far a model in its work and 

 methods for the other large libraries in the country that the 

 annual report of the Librarian, Mr. Herbert Putnam, possesses 

 particular interest. The total amount expended by the Library, 

 in 1908, was -$615,000, while the appropriations for 1909 are 

 somewhat more than $100,000 greater than this sum. The 

 increase in number of books for the year is slightly over 100,000. 

 The important purchase of the year was that of the Huitfeldt- 

 Kaas collection of 5000 volumes of Scandinavian literature, made 

 by the state archivist of Norway, who died in 1905. A portrait 

 of Mr. A. R. Spofford, who was for 32 years Librarian in Chief, 

 and who died on August 11, forms the frontispiece of the volume. 



3. Harvard College Observatory ; Edward C. Pickering, 

 Director. — Recent publication are noted in the following list 

 (continued from vol. xxvi, pp. 99): 



Annals. — Vol. LIV\ A Catalogue of Stars fainter than the 

 magnitude 650 observed with the 4-inch Meridian Photometer; 

 forming a supplement to the Revised Harvard Photometry. 

 Pp. 280. 



Vol. LVI, No. IV. Classification of 1,477 Stars by means of 

 their Photographic Spectra; by Annie J. Cannon. Pp. 65-114. 



Vol. LVII, Part II, Comparison Stars for 252 Variables of 

 Long Period. Prepared for publication by Leon Campbell, 

 Assistant, under the direction of Edward C. Pickering, Director. 

 Pp. 213-288. 



Vol. LIX, No. II. Photographic Photometry on a Uniform 

 Scale ; by Edward S. King. ^Pp. 33-62/6 figures. 



Vol. LX, No. IX. A Catalogue of Photographic Charts of 

 the Sky. Pp. 231-251. 



Vol. LXlV, No. I. Observations with the Meridian Photo- 

 meter during the years 1902 to 1906. Pp. 32. No. II. The 

 Variable Star SS Cygni. 213843 ; by Leon Campbell. Pp. 33-53. 

 I Plate. No. III. Schonfeld's Comparison Stars for Variables. 

 Pp. 55-89. 



Circulars. — No. 137. 25 New Variable Stars in Harvard 

 Map, Nos. 31-43. 



No. 138. 060547. The Variable Star, 31,1907. Pp. 6. 



No. 139. 26° 179. A New Variable of the Class of Lyra?. 

 003226. Pp. 7. 



No. 140. 16 New Variable Stars in Harvard Map, Nos. 4 and 

 13. Pp. 3. 



No. 141. 29 New Variable Stars near Nova Sagittarii. Pp. 4. 



No. 142. 28 New Variable Stars in Harvard Map, Nos. 30 and 

 33. Pp. 3. 



