1889.] 
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[Annual Meeting. 
Library. 
Our library is rapidly growing in size and on many of its shelves 
the books are now two rows deep, so that the library committee will 
be forced to increase our shelf-room in the immediate future. A tem- 
porary means of relief is under consideration, but in no short time 
this also will be insufficient to meet the growing needs. Our li- 
brary has to perform many functions some of which might be dif- 
ferentiated with profit. In serving as a committee room and offices 
it loses much of the quiet which a reading room demands. 
The following additions have been made since the last annual 
meeting. 
8 vo. 
4to. 
Fol. 
Total. 
Volumes, 
236 
60 
6 
302 
Parts, 
1,315 
389 
14 
1,718 
Pamphlets, 
201 
27 
2 
230 
Maps, 
3 
3 
Total : 2,253 
1,180 books have been taken out by 98 persons, during the past 
year. 
119 books and 52 volumes of the Proceedings have been bound. 
The following new exchanges have been added to our list : 
K. geologische Landesanstalt und Bergakademie, Berlin ; Royal 
Institution of Cornwall, Truro ; Societe des Naturalistes de Kiew ; 
Marine Biological Laboratory, Plymouth, England ; Australian 
Museum, Sydney ; The Microscope ; Elisha Mitchell Scientific 
Society; Biological Society of Liverpool; John Hopkins Univer- 
sity ; Sociedad Cientifica Antonio Alzate, Mexico ; Societe des 
Sciences et de Geographic, Port-au-Prince ; Ungarischer Karpathen- 
Verein. 
The Society has subscribed to the following new periodicals : 
American Geologist ; Garden and Forest. 
Walker Prize. 
No subject has been announced and consequently no prizes 
awarded during the past year. 
PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. VOL. XXIV 17 OCTOBER, 1889. 
