REPORT OF THE EXCHANGE COMMITTEE. 
February 8, 1906. 
At the last annual meeting of this Academy, a committee 
was appointed for the purpose of extending the exchange ser¬ 
vice of its library, securing such volumes as might he missing 
from its sets of publications and otherwise extending the use¬ 
fulness of the library. This committee herewith presents the 
report of its labors. 
1. It seemed to us that the most pressing necessity was that 
of completing, so far as possible, such partial sets of periodic¬ 
als as we already possessed. Preliminary to this, it xvas nec¬ 
essary to determine just w T hat we owned, and (a much more 
difficult task) just what we did not oxvn. In this work, the la¬ 
bors bestowed on our collections by our librarian aided us im¬ 
mensely. Nevertheless, it was a task that required several 
months of leisure moments. The result was, in a crude way, 
a card index to our library, and this formed the basis of our 
remaining work. Thanks to the financial support of the Geo¬ 
logical and natural History Survey, we were enabled to em¬ 
ploy a typewriter to write, from set forms, letters to the various 
societies, requesting such parts of their publications as we 
lacked. ]\fr. Kelly, the man employed, gave thorough satis¬ 
faction, but unfortunately was forced to quit the work at the 
end of the summer on account of other duties. Since then, no 
one has been employed, although many dozens of letters have 
been written. 
