1364 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 
REPORTS OF THE EXCHANGE COMMITTEE. 
Madison, Wisconsin, February 10, 1909. 
To the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters: 
The Committee on Exchanges herewith presents its annual 
report. As in previous years its chief efforts have been to¬ 
ward adding to the number of organizations with which w'e 
exchange publications, and to complete, so far as possible, the 
incomplete sets on our shelves. The result for the year has 
been as follows: 
New exchanges added. 26 
Missing volumes received . 212 
Missing numbers received ...., . 686 
Sets completed . 13 
Vols. completed. 32 
Very material aid in this work was gained by exchanging 
some of our duplicates with the Library of Congress, from 
whose duplicates we have obtained many much needed volumes 
and parts. 
The work of cataloguing our library, and shelving it with 
the University Library is now actively under way, and pro¬ 
gressing rapidly. This work has involved the study of a com¬ 
plicated series of problems in Library Science, for which no 
library seems as yet to have found an entirely satisfactory so¬ 
lution. In the transfer of our book, proper arrangements have 
been made so that Academy property can be easily identified. 
There have developed, however, a number of duplicate sets, 
of which a single set would seem to serve all possible purposes. 
We suggest that this Committee be given authority to dispose 
of such sets by sale, and to use the funds thus secured for pur¬ 
chasing other needed books. The sale of duplicate parts 
this year has yielded $,17.50. As in years past, a sum of $40 
from outside has also been at the disposal of the Chairman. 
