LIBRARIAN’S REPORT, 1895. 
Madison, Wis., Dec. 25, 1895. 
To the Wisco?isin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters: 
Your Librarian begs leave to submit the following report con¬ 
cerning the conduct of his office during the past year, and the 
present condition of the library. 
The number of additions to the list of exchanges during the 
past year has been comparatively small. The Librarian, owing 
to lack of time, has not been able to give sufficient attention to 
the soliciting of exchanges, and regrets exceedingly that he has 
to report so little progress in this direction. 
There have been many accessions of volumes, partially or 
wholly completing imperfect sets of publications, due for the 
most part to the efforts of Professor Van Cleef, my predecessor 
in office. The most notable accession is a complete set of the 
Memoirs of the St. Petersburg Academy, forty volumes. 
Volume X of the Transactions of the Academy has been dis¬ 
tributed to all members of the Academy, and to all correspond¬ 
ents. A large number of back volumes of the Transactions have 
been distributed to the libraries of colleges, universities and 
other educational institutions and to foreign correspondents. 
The occupation of the library for a large part of the year by 
committees of the Legislature and compilers of the state census 
has hampered the work of the Librarian somewhat. Access to 
the shelves has at times been very difficult, and sometimes im¬ 
possible. 
The large accessions to the library during the past four 
years have almost completely filled the shelf room. The over¬ 
crowded condition of many cases has made a re-arrangement 
of sets of books necessary, so that the printed catalogue is not 
always a sure guide. As there is prospect of ample shelf-room 
