1909.] 
NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 
575 
They were distributed to the several departments of the Library as 
follows : 
Journals 5,602 
Agriculture 319 
Geology 278 
Botany 249 
General Natural History 152 
Geography '. 130 
Voyages and Travels 117 
Entomology 98 
Anatomy and Physiology 73 
Anthropology 66 
Conchology 36 
Ornithology 36 
Mineralogy 28 
Medicine 25 
Helminthology 22 
Mammalogy 22 
Physical Science 18 
Bibliography 17 
Ichthyology 15 
Chemistry 10 
Mathematics 4 
Encyclopedias 1 
Unclassified ’ 29 
Fifteen hundred and seventy-eight volumes have been bound since 
the last report. 
Among the new books acquired during the year that are worthy of 
special mention are the following: 
J. D. Hooker’s Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of II. M. Discovery 
Ships Erebus and Terror, in seven quarto volumes. 
A complete set of thirty- two volumes of the periodical Kosmos, 
published in Lemberg. 
Hops and Van Eeden’s Flora Batava, a complete set to date of 
twenty-three quarto volumes. 
Ungarische Revue from 1885 to 1895, received from the Hungarian 
Academy of Sciences in response to an application for deficiencies. 
Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, Volumes 1 to 7. 
The publications of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. 
Transactions of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society 
from 1835 to 1895. 
Volumes 1 to 13, inclusive, of Forest and. Stream, completing our set 
of that periodical. 
A set of the Jahresbericht liber die Fortschritte der physischen Wissen- 
schaften (der Chemie und Physiologie) , in thirty volumes. 
The following new journals have been added to the list: 
Archiv fur die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik, 
Leipzig. 
Zeitschrift fur induktive Abstammungs- und Vererbungslehre, Berlin. 
Zeitschrift fur Botanik, Jena. 
Dorfteria, Vienna. 
Mannus, Wurzburg. 
Natur, Leipzig. 
Prcehistorische Zeitschrift, Berlin. 
The current year is probably the most important in the history 'of 
