Annual Meeting.] 142 [May 3, 
for reference', title entered on the siielt' list uiid written in full for 
the card e;it:vloL2;ne with the necessary cross i-eferences, a book 
phite and library digest affixed, location decided and indicated, 
title-page stamped with the Society's name, and the plates stamped. 
Most of our foreign exchanges are received through the Smith- 
sonian Institution and are accompanied by a blank to be signed : 
this blank has to be compared with the book and the record of 
the sender and an entry made in the exchange record, the 
exchange recor.l indexed and finally an acknowledgment sent 
for all donations. 
Publications. 
Parts 3 and 4 concluding the 25th volume of the Proceedings 
have been published, and the copy for the j)apers handed in, for 
the meetings to date, is in the hands of the printer. During the 
past year several calls have been made for com|)lete sets of the 
Proceedings ; these we have been unable to supply as three 
signatures are out of print ; two of these have been reprinted and 
the third is expected this month.. The sale of a few sets will 
exhaust our supply of other signatures, but by thus reprinting 
a few each year tiie series can be kept complete for some time. 
A memoir, number 10. volume 4, on the Fusion of hands, by 
Dr. Thomas Dwight has been issued, and 64 pa^'es of Di-. C. S. 
Minot's Bibliography of vertebrate embi-yology are in type. 
Tlie first part of the new volume of Occasional papers, con- 
taining Prof. W. O. Crosby's Geology of the Boston Basin, has 
been printed and will be issued on the receipt of the two special 
maps. Tliese ai-e expected this month. The larger part of the 
expense of publishing this work has been defrayed by Mr. 
Thomas A. Watson. 
The guide to the collections of dynamical geology, a small 
octavo of 311 pages, also by Professor Crosby, has been issued. 
This has been paid for outside the resources of the Society. 
Twenty-Hve volumes of vol. 25 of the Proceedings have been 
bound. 
Similar statistics in regard to tlie publications are given 
annually, and have been printed in the Proceedings for more 
than a quarter of a century; it was, therefore, somewhat surprising 
