1890 .] 
23 
[Annual Meeting. 
In 1880, the secretary reports that the meetings of the section of 
entomology were unusually well attended and interesting. 
Library. 
The library continues to grow crowding our shelf room far be- 
yond its limits. The congested state of the department must be 
met in the near future by additional shelf room if the society would 
continue its past usefulness. The funds for the library necessitate 
rigid economy, so that many important books and monographs lately 
published are not purchased. In many departments our library is 
defective. As this is the only purely natural history library of 
great size in Boston, it is desirable to make it as complete as pos- 
sible. 
The additions to the library number 2642. Last year the total 
number of additions were 2253. 
The number of books bound during the past year is very small. 
While circumstances have rendered it necessary to limit our expen- 
ditures, it is poor economy to economize on the bindings of our 
books. 
Additions to the Library : 
8vo. 
4to. 
Fol. 
Total 
Volumes, 
225 
62 . 
3 
290 
Parts 
1604 
374 
7 
1985 
Pamphlets 
338 
22 
4 
364 
Maps 
3 
3 
Total : 2642 
Eight hundred and fifteen books have been borrowed by ninety- 
four persons. Thirty-six books have been bound. 
New exchanges : New York Microscopical Society ; Geological 
Survey of Arkansas; American Museum of Natural History, New 
York. 
The Society has subscribed to the American Anthropologist of 
Washington, and L’Anthropologie which succeeds a French journal 
formerly subscribed for. 
The library is indebted to Mr. Edward Burgess for a large num- 
ber of pamphlets, and to Dr. C. F. Crehore for sets of Revue 
d’Ethnographie, and Journal of the Anthropological Institute of 
Great Britain and Ireland. 
