'**^5-^ 525 [Annual Meeting. 
Schenk's Handbuch der botanik. 4 vols. 
Wien. K. Akademie d. wissenschaften. Denkschriften (natural 
history articles). 58 volg_ 
Zoologisclies in.stitut. Arbeiten. 10 vols. 
Wiirzburg. Zoologisch-zootomisches institut. Arbeiten. 10 vols. 
Zoologische beitrage. 3 y^j., 
jahrbiiche. 12 vols. 
The total number inde.xed is 47 serials, 546 volumes ; current 
volumes of serials indexed in previous years are indexed as 
received. 
One of the basement rooms having been granted to the 
library, has been in part supplied with shelves and the books are 
already arranged there. When connected directly with the front 
Ubrary and entirely supplied with shelving this room will reli( 
overcrowding for a number of vears. 
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Walkkr Prizes. 
The Walker Prize Committee announced the following as the 
subjects for the annual award : — 
(1) A study of the " Fall line " in New Jersey. 
(2) A study of the Devonian formation of the Ohio basin. 
(3) Relations of the order Plantaginaceae. 
(4) Experimental investigations in morphology or embryology. 
Three essays have been received, and the chairman of the 
Committee, Dr. Goodale, has, in accordance with the rules of the 
Council, informed me that the Committee unanimously agreed to 
award a prize of sixty dollars (|60) to the author of the essay 
on the Devonian formation of the Ohio basin, bearing the motto 
" Complet orientalem Devonia occidental's," and a second prize 
of fifty dollars (|!50) to the author of the essay on Variations 
in development of Limulus poly])hemus, inscribed X. Y. Z. 
The subjects announced for next year are : 
(1) A study of the area of schistose or foliated rocks in the 
eastern United States. 
(2) A study of the development of river valleys in some 
considerable area of folded or faulted Appalachian structure in 
Pennsylvania, Virginia, or Tennessee. 
