1882.] 15 " [Annual Meeting. 



Library. 



The number of additions to the Society's Library make the 



largest total — 2346 — yet recorded for a single year. These 

 additions are classified as follows. 



8° 4° Fol. Total. 



Volumes 357 32 2 391 



Parts 1217 241 138 1596 



Pamphlets 189 ' 22 211 



Maps, Photographs, etc. 148 



Total : 2346 



We are especially indebted to the Museo Publico of Buenos 

 Ayres, to our President, Mr. Scudder, and to Prof. J. O. Westwood 

 of England, for gifts to the Library. 



The Librarian must make bis usual lament over lack of funds for 

 binding. In his opinion, there is no work before the Society so 

 pressing as that required to put its Library in decent condition. 

 A large proportion of our books are being injured for want of 

 proper binding, and the value of the library would be immensely 

 increased by filling the many gaps in important series of works. 



We have just begun the transfer of our card catalogue to cards 

 of the standard size, but the work with the present force must be 

 very slow. Nine hundred and forty-four books have been bor- 

 rowed from the library by one hundred and nineteen persons. 



The Library Committee has also arranged to add to our shelf- 

 room during the coming summer. 



Publications. 



The cost of the "Anniversary Memoirs" partly met during 

 the present year, has somewhat crippled the Publishing Commit- 

 tee. We have, however, succeeded in bringing the issue of Pro- 

 ceedings nearer to date than for a long time past, and have 

 published the last part of Yol. XX, two parts of Yol. XXI and 

 four signatures towards a third part. 



One number of the Memoirs containing an article by Prof. S. 

 F. Clarke, "New Hydroid from Chesapeake Bay" (8 pp. and 

 3 plates) was published in January, and another number, con- 

 taining Mr. S. H. Scudder's memoir on " Archipolypoda, a New 

 Type of Carboniferous Centipedes," is nearly ready for publication. 



