1869.] 11 [Annual Report. 



by the family is prefixed. The work is also embellished by 



steel plates and woodcuts. 



We must again express our great indebtedness to the 

 Smithsonian Institution for the liberality with which they 

 transmit our publications from Washington to foreign coun- 

 tries, and receive returns for us through their European 

 agents, free of charge. This system of interchange, initiated 

 many years ago by the Smithsonian Institution, has proved 

 of immense advantage to American Societies, not only in a 

 monetary point of view, but in the simplicity of the method 

 and the certainty of its results. It is, however, much to be 

 desired that the transmission from this country could be made 

 with greater frequency, not so much for our own sake as for 

 that of our foreign correspondents; while parcels are for- 

 warded to us at an average interval of three or four weeks, we 

 do not send our own publications more than once a year; in- 

 deed many of our transactions do not reach our foreign friends 

 until a year after their publication. This year our transmis- 

 sions have been twice as large as usual, that for 1868 having 

 been forwarded immediately after the Annual Meeting, and 

 that for 1869 a few weeks ago. We have sent away 737 

 parts of our Memoirs, 312 parts of the old Journal, 254 com- 

 plete volumes of the Proceedings, unbound sheets of the 

 same equivalent to 367 volumes, 303 copies of the Harris 

 Correspondence, 340 copies of the first Annual, and 597 

 copies of the Annual Reports, equal in all to three quarters 

 of a million of octavo pages. 



In response to our special requests, we have been favored 

 by the following Societies, with many early volumes of their 

 Publications : — 



Naturhistorischer Verein des Preussischen Kheinlandes Bonn. 



Socidtd Linneenne Bordeaux. 



Sclilesische Gesellscliaffc fur vaterlandische Cultur . Breslau. 



* Physiographiske Forcning Christiania. 



* Royal Physical Society Edinburgh. 



