REPORT OF LIBRARIAN, 1907-1908. 
In June, 1907, by agreement between the Academy and the Regents 
of the University of Texas, the library of the Academy was given to 
the University on certain conditions, which are stated elsewhere in full. 
This library, accumulated since 1892, now fills about two hundred 
and fifty linear feet of shelving, nearly all of this material consisting 
of unbound scientific journals, transactions, etc., of learned societies 
sent in exchange for the Transactions. Some of these sets are complete 
for the years since the exchange began, but the greater part are imper- 
fect owing to the loss of numbers or volumes. During the past year 
the University Library has spent $16 in purchasing missing numbers, 
and has sent the following volumes to the bindery: 
London Geographical Journal , vol. 4 to date, 26 volumes. 
St. Louis Academy of Sciences, Transactions , vol. 2 to date, 16 
volumes. 
Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. 56 to date, 26 volumes. 
Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 122 to date, 45 volumes. 
Zeitschrift fur Ethnologic , vol. 35 to date, 5 volumes, and General 
Index, 1 volume. 
The Journal and Proceedings of the American Academy of Natural 
Sciences, Philadelphia, complete from vol. 1 to date, 60 volumes. 
Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin , vol. 8 to date, 11 volumes. 
Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. 26 to date, 
8 volumes, completing the set in the University Library. 
Atti della R. Accademia delle scienze di Torrino, vol. — to date, 15 
volumes. 
Some of the above sets have been bound and are now in the library, 
and the rest will be bound by September 1. Other sets are ready for the 
bindery and still others are being made ready by securing missing num- 
bers; but there is not enough money available to justify more binding 
this year. The average cost of binding is about $1.00 a volume. 
The purchase of printed catalogue cards by the University Library 
for each article in the current volumes of many of the Academy sets 
is under consideration. To add these cards to the general catalogue 
would mean that workers on any particular subject would have their 
attention called to helpful articles in these journals, of which they 
otherwise would not be likely to know. 
The sending of current Transactions to societies and institutions on 
the Academy’s exchange list has been done by the University Library, 
