Librarian's Report 
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REPORT OF LIBRARIAN, 1899. 
A brief view of the principal work done by the librarian during his 
term of office is best given as follows: 
1st. Acknowledging the receipt of all exchanges received during the 
last three years; 
2nd. Distributing volume XI and volume XII, part I, of the Transac¬ 
tions; 
3rd. Sending nearly five hundred copies of the volume XI of the 
Transactions to foreign institutions, and with each volume a circular 
letter requesting that, should its publications warrant it, the Wiscon¬ 
sin academy be placed upon their exchange list; 
4th. Sending, with the same request, forty copies of volume XII, part 
I, of the Transactions, to societies within the United States. 
It is as yet impossible to report what number of new exchanges has 
been added by the method adopted by the librarian, as answers are con¬ 
tinually being received, and it will be some time before the final result 
can be obtained. The only report to be made is that, during my term of 
office, ninety-two new exchanges have been added to our list. 
No list of the exchanges received by the Academy having been printed 
since the publication of volume IX of the Transactions, it was thought 
advisable to publish a new list, that the members might know what ex¬ 
changes were being received by the Academy. 
This list, it is hoped, will be of use to the members in showing them 
what exchanges are in the library, and also useful to the librarian in 
that the members, having this list, can add to their copies the names 
of any societies with which an exchange would be desirable, and then re¬ 
port these to the librarian. 
A letter from the Smithsonian Institution reported that fifty-four 
copies of volume XII, part I, of the Transactions were destroyed by the 
burning and sinking of the steamship “Patria” of the Hamburg-Ameri- 
can Line; but, as a list of the societies to which these copies were sent 
had been kept in Washington, another copy has in each case been 
furnished. 
Wm. S. Marshall, 
Librarian. 
Madison , Wis., December 28, 1899. 
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