[Annual Meeting. 320 [May 5, 



dropped for non-payment of dues, and two have removed from 

 New England. One Corporate Member has forfeited membership, 

 and one Patron, Mr. Henry P. Kidder, has died. Ten Associate, 

 four Corporate, and four Corresponding Members have been 

 elected. 



Meetings. 

 Sixteen General Meetings have been held as usual, and it is 

 pleasant to note an increased attendance, the average being thirty- 

 one ; eighty-two persons were present at the largest meeting, and 

 eleven at the smallest. Thirt3 r -three communications were made 

 at these meetings. 



Library. 



The additions to the Library exceed the number reported last 

 year, then far the largest recorded, by 218, the total of 2,883 being 

 made up as follows : 



8vo. 4to. Fol. Total. 



Volumes, 280 



71 



5 



356 



Parts, 1,655 



326 



167 



2,148 



Pamphlets, 306 



24 



2 



332 



Maps, 







47 



Total : 2,883 



The largest gift has been received from the Editor of " Science" 

 and it includes several useful journals and other works. 



Dr. C. S. Mm ot and Professor Hyatt have also presented a num- 

 ber of books. One hundred and sixty-nine volumes have been 

 bound. 



The rapid increase of the library will make necessary the addition 

 of more shelf room at once, and the present seems to be the proper 

 time for making any change in the system of shelf classification. 

 That a better classification is desirable cannot be doubted, but 

 whether a change is practicable, on account of the great labor in- 

 volved in a library numbering nearly thirty-thousand works, is a 

 question which the Library Committee now have under considera- 

 tion. 



Eight hundred and seventy-nine works have been borrowed by 

 one hundred and five persons. 



A sad duty to perform in connection with the Library is to re- 



