Annual Meeting.] 



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May 6, 



communications were made at the above mentioned meetings. It 

 is certainly desirable to consider the question of increasing the 

 interest in the meetings and I believe it is possible to accomplish 

 this. 



The Section of Entomology has held only one meeting, at which 

 eight persons were present. 



Library. 



The number of additions to the Library largely exceeds that of 

 any previous year, the total being 2,655, made up as follows : 





8vo. 



4to. 



Fol. 



Total. 



Volumes, 



293 



107 



4 



404 



Parts, 



1,410 



299 



46 



1,755 



Pamphlets, 



421 



30 



1 



452 



Maps, etc., 







« 



44 



Total : 



2,655 



The new exchanges arranged and new journals subscribed for 

 include the following : 



Zeitschrift f. wissenschaftliche Mikroskopie, Braunschweig. 



Verein f. schlesische Insektenkunde, Breslau. 



Royal Society of Queensland, Brisbane. 



Naturhistorisches Museum, Hamburg. 



Royal Society of Canada, Montreal. 



Field Naturalists' Club, Ottawa. 



Ornithologist and Oologist, Pawtucket, R. I. 



Eight hundred and eighty-four books have been borrowed from 

 the Library by one hundred and four persons. These figures re- 

 main about the same from year to year. 



Seventy-two volumes have been bound. 



The Library of the late Dr. Amos Binney deposited in the So- 

 ciety's care by Mrs. Binney in 1856 and numbering 975 volumes 

 besides pamphlets, etc., has been given outright by his son, Mr. 

 Wm. G. Binney, as already announced at a previous meeting. 



To Messrs. S. H. Scudder and Samuel Henshaw the Library is 

 indebted for a considerable number of gifts. 



