1873.] d TAnnual Report. 



Balcenoptera musculus, by Dr. T. Dwight Jr. A third num- 

 ber, containing a paper on the fossil Myriapods of Nova Sco- 

 tia, by Mr. S. H. Scudder, will be issued in a few days. 



Of the " Proceedings," two par$s, completing the four- 

 teenth volume, have been issued, and the first part of Yol. 

 xv. ; the second part will be distributed in a few days. This 

 part contains the printed record of meetings down to Janu- 

 ary 1, 1873, besides which matter nearly sufiicient for a third 

 part, which will include reports of the meeting of last month, 

 is in type. It will therefore be seen that our publications are 

 in a comparatively satisfactory condition. 



Six Societies have favored us for the first time with their 

 publications: — 



Societe Academique de Maine et Loire. . . . Angers. 



Societe des Sciences historiques et naturelles de 



l'Yonne Auxerre. 



Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali . . . Catania. 



Naturwissenschaftliche Verein fur Steiermark. Gratz. 



Societe d' Agriculture, Industrie, Sciences et Arts 



du Department de la Lozere Mende. 



Scientific Association of Trinidad Trinidad. 



Important sets of publications have also been received 

 from the Batarvaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Weten- 

 schappen, the Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Isis zu 

 Dresden, the Scientific Association of Trinidad, and, espec- 

 ially, the Societe d' Agriculture, Industrie, Sciences et Arts du 

 Departement de la Lozere, a Mende. 



We have also subscribed to several new scientific journals, 

 among them Max Schultze's Archiv fur Mikroskopische Ana- 

 tomie, of which we have obtained a complete set, and exchange 

 with the " Lens ", published by the Illinois State Microscop- 

 ical Society," of Chicago. 



No important change has been made in the Library since 

 the last Report. One hundred and twenty-five volumes have 

 been bound, but a large outlay for this work is still most nec- 

 essary. Miss Foster has condensed the card catalogue, by the 

 omission of cross references to such general words as " re- 



