Annual Meeting.] 524 [May i, 
The total 8,115 exceeds tlie inimber 8,0G9 recorded last year, 
which was larger than that of any previous year. 
The hbrary contains 21,960 volumes, 1,227 inconvjDlete (includ- 
ing current) volumes, and 10,480 pamphlets. 
New exchanges have been arranged Avith fourteen institutions 
as follows: Aiinaes de sciencias naturaes, Porto; Colorado 
college scientific society ; Colorado scientific society, Denver ; 
Department of zoology, Oxford; Field naturalists' club of 
Victoria, Melbourne; Michigan geological survey; National 
geographic society, Washington ; Naturwissenschaftlicher verein 
des regierungsbezirks, Frankfurt am Oder ; Revue des sciences 
naturelles de I'ouest, Paris ; Royal Scottish geographical society ; 
Trinidad field naturalists' club ; United States bureau of ethnol- 
ogy ; United States national museum ; University of Wisconsin. 
By purchase we have added five serials : Annals of British 
geology ; Journal of the anthropological institution of Great 
Britain; Journal de raicrographie ; Maynard's Contributions to 
science ; Revue g^nerale de botanique. 
The Society now exchanges its publications with 392 scientific 
societies and periodicals. 
One thousand and fifty-eight books have been borrowed from 
the library by 125 persons, 336 books have been borrowed for 
use in the building, and the library has been consulted 634 times. 
Six hundred and sixty-four volumes have been bound in 513 
covers. 
The list of 17 serials, 201 volumes, indexed this year is as 
follows : — 
Archives de binlogie. 
La cellule. 
Jenaische zeitschrift. 
Journal de I'anatomie et de la pliysiologie. 
Leipzig. K. sachsische Gesellschaft. Abhandluugen (natural his- 
tory articles). 
Marine biological laboratory lectures. 
Natural history society of Wisconsin. Occasional papers. 
Niederliindisches archiv f. zoologie. 
Palaeontographica. 
Revue generale de botanique. 
Royal society of Canada. Proceedings and transactions (natural 
history articles). 11 voLs. 
12 vols. 
10 vols. 
21 vols. 
1 vol. 
15 vols. 
2 vols. 
2 vols. 
6 vols. 
18 vols. 
6 vols. 
