1893.] 14 i [Annual Meeting. 
The number of scientific societies and periodicals at lioiiie and 
abroad witli which tlie Society now exchang-es its publications is 
372. 
Nine hundred and ninety-five books have been borrowed from 
the library by 103 persons, 220 books have been borrowed for 
use in the building and the library has been consulted 522 times. 
One hundred and eighty books liave been bound. 
A new method of charging books loaned from tlie library has 
been introduced; the change facilitates the ready location of a 
book and gives greater security to the library in case of loss ; 
thus far it has Avorked successfully. 
A rearrangement of the maps has been begun and some 
progress made towards indexing the jjapers published in serials 
A list of the 18 serials, 24a volumes, indexed is as follows: — 
Academj- of natural science of Philadelphia, .Journal. (2d ser.). 9 vols. 
American entomoloi^cical society, Transactions. 19 vols. 
Boston society of natural liistory, Anniversary memoirs. 1 vol. 
Boston journal of natural history. 7 vols. 
Memoirs. 4 vols. 
California 2,eoloa;ical survey. Reports. 6 vols. 
Challenger expedition reports. 36 vols. 
Connecticut academy of arts and science, Transactions. 9 vols. 
Journal of morpliology. 7 vols. 
Museum of comparative zoolosiy. Memoirs. 17 vols. 
Novara expedition reports. 21 vols. 
Pacific railroad reports. 12 vols. 
Smithsonian institution. Contributions to knowledge. 27 vols- 
Miscollaneous collections. o'd vols. 
U.S. entoniological connnission, Hulletins. 7 vols. 
geological survey. Bulletins. 14 vols. 
Reports. lU vols. 
(Haydeu's) Bulletins. C vols. 
If the card catalogue is to be the directory of the library, it is 
very essential that the contents of the various journals, etc., 
should be easily accessible. The problem of a subject index, or 
the business portion of the directory, is still to be attacked. 
As all do not realize the amount of work essential before a book 
can be placed on the shelves, it jnay not be uninteresting to note 
that after the leaves are cut, the' pages and plates are collated, 
an entiv made in the accession cataloo-ue, this entrv indexed 
