6 
Wm. J. Fox,. 
1 
Lord Crawford, . 
1 
Henry C. McCook, . . . 
1 
Adams Memorial Commit- 
Geological Survey of Rou- 
tee, . . . . 
1 
mania,. 
1 
Committee on 
Botany, 
Lewis Woolman, . . . 
1 
Pennsylvania 
Pharma- 
Samuel G. Dixon, . . . 
1 
ceutical Association, 
1 
Geological Survey of Mary- 
Emil Holub, . 
1 
land,. 
1 
Lemcke & Buechner, New 
U. S. Fish Commission, . 
1 
York, . . . 
1 
These accessions were distributed to the several departments of 
the library, as follows:— 
Journals,. 
4,302 
Mineralogy, . 
18 
Geology,. 
181 
Physical Science, 
17 
Botany,. 
112 
Ornithology, . . 
13 
General Natural History, . 
102 
Helminthology, . 
10 
Agriculture,. 
52 
Medicine, . . . 
9 
Entomology, . .. . . . 
47 
Bibliography, 
7 
Anthropology, .... 
47 
Chemistry, 
5 
Mammalogy,. 
31 
Geography, . . 
5 
Conchology,. 
30 
Encyclopedias, . 
4 
Voyages and Travels, . 
30 
Herpetology, . . 
1 
Ichthyology,. 
25 
Miscellaneous, . 
74 
Anatomy and Physiology, 
23 
The slight falling off in receipts from the number reported last 
year is owing to the decrease of appropriations, made necessary by 
the large expenditures for 1896. To the same cause is due the com¬ 
paratively small number of volumes bound, which amounts to only 
270, a large part of these being credited to the special funds, thu& 
farther curtailing the amount available for the purchase of books. 
In the cases, secured by the removal last year of the stock of pub¬ 
lications of the Academy to the basement, have been arranged the 
books on Physical Science and Anthropology, the latter section of 
the library being more than doubled by the large collection of val¬ 
uable works included in the Meigs bequest. Extensive additions of 
case room are required in nearly every department of the library, 
the maintenance of the geographical arrangement of the journals 
and periodicals being increasingly difficult from year to year. The 
plan suggested in the last report of arranging journals devoted to 
special subjects in connection with the special departments of the 
