1914.] 
NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 
655 
Zeitschrift f. angewandte Entomologie, I, 1, 2. 
Zeitschrift f. Oologie, I-XY. 
Zeitschrift f. Vulkanologie, I, 1, 2. 
• Zoologiska Bidrag fran Uppsala, I, II. 
The decrease in the number of accessions as compared to the 
growth of last year is partly owing to a curtailment of appropriations 
and partly to the interference of the war with the publication and 
transmission of foreign periodicals. 
The issue of German journals, at first interrupted, has now been 
resumed, and they, just at present, are being received with tolerable 
regularity. Scarcely anything, except the Comptes Rendus of the 
Academy of Sciences and the Society of Biology reaches us from 
France, and these curtailed in size. Needless to say, nothing has 
come from Belgium since the invasion. The fine annual package 
from the Catholic I niversity of Louvain will probably never be 
received again. 
The amount at the disposal of the Library Committee has per¬ 
mitted of the binding of only 218 volumes. 
The Card Catalogue is being thoroughly revised by Mr. Fox and 
information secured regarding incomplete sets, many of which, 
it is found, are in their present condition because of the death of 
the authors or the discontinuance of publication. 
A proposition to amend the By-Laws so as to permit of the loaning 
of books from the Library, on which adverse action had been taken 
last year, was again referred to the Council and will probably be 
reported on favorably. Final action on this and other propositions 
will not be taken by the Academy until the third Tuesday in January. 
They will be more particularly dealt with in next year’s report. 
The Librarian was granted leave of absence to attend the Inter¬ 
national Exposition of Book Industries and the Graphic Arts in 
Leipzig and subsequently the meeting 'of the British Library Associa¬ 
tion at Oxford. On the breaking out of the war all idea of reaching 
Leipzig had to be abandoned and news of the postponement of the 
Oxford meeting soon followed. In the intermediate time between 
the first mobilization of troops and the beginning of actual fighting 
the journey from Milan to London was made with no disaster and 
the minimum of inconvenience. Earlier and later efforts to make 
the passage were much more serious matters. 
During the Librarian’s absence the routine business of the library 
was carried on with characteristic efficiency by his assistants, William 
J. Fox and Furman S. Wilde, to whom he is glad to again make 
deserved acknowledgment. 
Edward J. Nolan, Librarian. 
