Annual Report.] 



10 



[May 6, 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The Society has published since last May four Articles in 

 the Memoirs : on the Fossil Myriapods from Nova Scotia, by 

 Mr. S. H. Scudder ; on Earthquakes in New England, by M. 

 Albert Lancaster ; on Embryology^of Terebratulina, by Prof. 

 E. S. Morse, and a list of the Birds of Western Mexico, by 

 Mr. Geo. N. Lawrence. 



Of the Proceedings two parts, concluding the fifteenth 

 volume, and two parts of the sixteenth have been issued. 





LIBRARY. 



In the two last Annual Reports the need of the addition of 

 a gallery to the back library has been urged ; this want was 

 supplied last June, and the Library is now arranged so as to 

 preclude the necessity of extended changes for many years, 

 although it is probable that a necessity for more shelf room 

 will arise before the close of the present decade. The work 

 of correcting the alcove catalogues has been accomplished ; 

 that on the card catalogue is still in progress. 



The additions during the year number 1353, and may be 

 classified as follows : — 



Volumes . . . 

 Parts . . . . 

 Pamphlets . . 

 Maps and Charts 



8vo. 



ito. 



Fol. 



246 . 



. . . 75 . . 



. . 2 . . '. 



652 . 



... 177 . . 



. . 4 . . . 



124 . 



. . . 24 . . 









Total . . . . 





Total. 



323 



833 



148 



49 



1353 



Two additions of great value deserve especial mention, viz. : 

 two collections of original paintings of Georgian Insects, 

 by John Abbot. One of these collections, painted for Dr. 

 Oemler of South Carolina, consists of nearly two hundred 

 plates, illustrating Lepidoptera in different stages, and was 

 purchased for the Society by the liberality of several mem- 

 bers. The second collection, the gift of Dr. Asa Gray, is of 



