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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
whereas they have now been transferred to the section of Journals 
and Periodicals, where they properly belong. Similarly some of the 
books in the .Meigs Library have been removed from the miscellaneous 
collection, which is only retained because of a condition imposed by 
the donor, John G. .Meigs. 1 The separated books have been placed 
with related works in the general library. 
Special attention may be called to the following accessions: 
Nature Notes. London. Eighteen volumes. 
Giornale Arcadico di Scienze, Roma. Seventeen volumes. 
Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France; Paleontologie. Volumes V-XVT. 
Annales de I'Universite de Grenoble. Twenty-one volumes. 
Thurston’s Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Seven volumes. 
Grote, Vogt and Holer’s Siisswasser Fische von Mitteleuropa. 
George G. Heye Expedition, Contributions to South American Archaeology. 
The Academy is indebted to His Royal and Imperial Highness the 
Grand Duke Ludwig Salvator of Austria for the gift of twenty-three 
superbly illustrated volumes, the privately printed records of many 
years of travel and exploration. The works relate for the most part 
to the geography, physical characters, ethnography and history of 
some of the islands of the Mediterranean Sea and are finely illustrated 
with hundreds of figures and plates. The collection includes a beauti¬ 
ful panorama, twelve feet in length, of the Bay of Alexandrette, the 
ancient Alexandria ad Issum. 
The books were secured through the active interest of the late 
Dr. Theodore de Thodorovitch, who, as a member of the Academy 
and in his official capacity as Austro-Hungarian Consul, represented 
the claims of the library as a depository of the desired works based on 
its importance to students of science and its liberality of adminis¬ 
tration. 
It is a cause of sincere regret that the death of Dr. de Thodorovitch 
before the arrival of the volumes deprived the Academy of the oppor¬ 
tunity of making to him the acknowledgment of obligation he so well 
deserved. 
We are also indebted to the Hon. Maurice Francis Egan, our Minister 
to Denmark, for his co-operation in securing by exchange the valuable 
publications of Dr. Wesenburg-Lund's Fresh-water Laboratory, which 
we were not able to procure through the booksellers. 
The following new serials have been added to the library during 
the year: 
See Report of Librarian for 1895. 
