Report of Librarian. 
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where the journals of each department are to be found, will 
be posted this noon near the door, so that members can in¬ 
spect the shelves and learn what journals the library pos¬ 
sesses in each or any department of knowledge. 
The card catalogue has been adopted as in every way the 
most convenient and the best adapted to any change of ar¬ 
rangement of books that may in future become necessary. 
(I should perhaps state that a partial card catalogue exists, 
but as it does not tell where the books are to be found, it 
proved easier to make a new one than to use the old one.) 
The present classification of the cards is the same as that 
of the books, and each card gives reference to number of 
case and letter of shelf where the book is to be f onnd. The 
books have been given numbers on the following plan: Each 
journal has a journal number, and each volume of that 
journal a volume number separated from the journal num¬ 
ber by a space and period. The volume number is gener¬ 
ally the number of the volume. This makes it convenient 
to number and catalogue accessions. 
It is proposed, if possible, to finish the catalogue before 
spring and publish a list of the journals in volume viii of 
the Transactions. 
The acknowledgment of books receive d and the details 
of the work of cataloguing have been carried out by Mr. L. 
S. Cheney, Fellow in Biology of the University of Wiscon¬ 
sin, who has been paid for the work. Credit is due him 
for the care he has exercised in a work requi ring consider¬ 
able care. Journals have in some cases been found bound 
with incorrect titles, parts of a volume bound with odd 
numbers left out, etc. 
At the next annual meeting of the Academy I expect to 
be able to present a list of the most valuable of the journals, 
and the Academy will be asked to appropriate money for 
binding them. 
As soon as the library is catalogued it will, I think, pos¬ 
sess considerable value to many of the members as a library 
of reference. It includes many quite important journals, 
I would recommend to the Academy the appointment of a 
libi? ry committee of three, of whom the librarian shall be 
