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Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts and Letters . 
REPORT OF THE LIBARIAN AND CUSTODIAN. 
(Presented at the Twenty-second Regular Meeting , December 39tfi y il391.) 
The arrangement and cataloguing of the books of the 
library has been begun during the past year, and the 
catalogue is about a third completed. The work has been 
much hindered because access to the rooms can be had 
only on Saturdays and during vacations, owing to their 
being used for meetings of the law and history classes. 
The cases and shelves have been washed and the doors 
fitted with new locks where necessary. The cases have 
been given numbers from 1 to 31, and the shelves letters. 
The dust of ages has been removed from the books and a 
temporary arrangement made on the plan which follows. 
As most members know, the library consists almost 
solely of journals obtained in exchange for the Transac¬ 
tions of the Academy. A primary classification has been 
made into: (l) Journals which treat of Sciences, Arts and 
Letters. (2) Journals restricted to Sciences. (3) Journals 
treating of special sciences, as biological journals, geologi¬ 
cal journals, etc. (This class contains a subdivision for 
each science or group of sciences represented.) (4) Jour¬ 
nals relating solely to the Arts. (5) Journals relating to 
Letters. Supplementary to each of these divisions is a 
small collection of separate works and brochures of papers 
in other journals. The bulk of the library of the Academy 
is embraced in the first three divisions — general and scien¬ 
tific journals. 
Under this primary grouping the journals are classified 
according to language, as English, German, French, Italian, 
Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, etc. 
A list showing this arrangement, with the number of cases 
