Annual Eeport] 222 [May * 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The radical changes made in the basement during the 

 summer and autumn have materially impeded the regular 

 issue of the publications. Eleven signatures of the Proceed- 

 ings have been issued, completing the thirteenth volume, and 

 four signatures of the fourteenth volume are already in type. 

 One paper of the Memoirs, "Historical Notes of the Earth- 

 quakes of New England," by Mr. William T. Brigham, has 

 already appeared ; the second paper, "Early Stages of Tere- 

 bratulina," by Prof. Edward S. Morse, is ready, and only wait- 

 ing for the plates; the third paper, on the "Osteology and 

 Myology of Didelphys Virginiana," by Elliott Coues, M. D., 

 U. S. A., with an appendix by Prof. Jeffries Wyman, M. D. f 

 is well advanced and will soon be issued, completing the first 

 annual part of the second volume. 



There is now a fair prospect that both the Proceedings and 

 Memoirs will be issued with the promptness which has 

 hitherto characterized the publications of the Society. 



LIBRARY. 



The accessions to the Library during the year by gift, ex- 

 change and purchase, number 1185, which may be classified 

 as follows : 215 volumes, 765 parts of volumes, 183 pam- 

 phlets and 22 maps and charts. 



The disturbed state of the countries from which many of 

 the exchanges come will suggest the cause of this reduced 

 number compared with that of the preceding year. 



The appeals made to societies for volumes and parts to 

 complete our imperfect series, have in several instances been 

 responded to very generously. From the Zoological Society 

 of London, we have received the first five volumes of its 

 Transactions nearly complete. Two or three parts being out 

 of print could not be supplied. 



Several societies to whom our Memoirs, Proceedings and 

 occasional papers have been sent, have for the first time 

 honored us with their publications. 



