Annual Report.] 4 [May 7, 



port " " memoir," " monograph" and the like, which will 

 greatly facilitate its use. 



The pressing need of adding a gallery to the back library 

 has been referred to in the Annual Reports for several years, 

 and I hope for the last time in vain. Many alcoves are run- 

 ning over with the rapidly multiplying publications of 

 Societies, and until the new gallery allows a rearrange- 

 ment of the library, nothing can be done for their relief. So, 

 too, it is useless to correct the many false references of the 

 card catalogue, until the rearrangement is effected. 



To complete our many incomplete sets of Society publica- 

 tion, or scientific journals, much outlay is needed at once, as 

 many of them are out of print, and are becoming more rare 

 and expensive. We lack, also, many recent works in all de- 

 partments. 



The additions to the Library during the year number 

 1338, which may be classified as follows : — 



8vo. 4to. Fol. Total. 



Volumes 222 50 5 277 



Parts 668 179 5 852 



Pamphlets 167 22 189 



Maps and Charts 20 



Total 1338 



During the year 532 books have been taken from the Li- 

 brary by 101 persons. 



The chief improvement in the Museum has been the alter- 

 ation of the cases in the upper galleries for the reception of 

 the extensive collection of birds. Since the last Report the 

 cases on the west side of the main upper gallery, and those 

 around the galleries of the four corner rooms, have been al- 

 tered. This work is therefore now completed, and the entire 

 bird collection is already placed in the new cases. The railing 

 cases around the lower gallery, containing birds' nests and 

 eggs, have been exchanged with those of the upper, contain- 

 ing the New England collection of insects, thus bringing both 

 these collections into their appropriate places. 



New and admirable cases have also been made on the 



