122 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Library. 
The additions to the library exceed the number reported last year, 
larger than any then previously recorded, by 422. 
The total 3,537 is made up as follows : — 
8vo. 
4to. 
Folio. 
Total. 
Volumes 360 
87 
417 
Parts 2,185 
463 
2,648 
Pamphlets 331 
69 
11 
411 
Maps, photographs, etc. 
31 
• 
Total, 
3,537 
The library contains 22,756 
volumes, 1,249 
incomplete (including 
current) volumes, and 10,841 pamphlets. 
New exchanges have been arranged with six institutions as follows : 
Naturwissenschaftlicher verein, Osnabriick; Zoological society, 
Tokyo; Rochester academy of science; Tufts College; Field 
Columbian museum ; Appalachia. 
The Society now exchanges its publications with 392 scientific 
societies and periodicals. 
By purchase we have added nine serials: Biologische untersu- 
chungen, new series; Around the world; Annuaire geologique ; 
Bibliotheca zoologica; Entomologische nachrichten; Museum asso¬ 
ciation reports; Minerva; Memoirs Nuttall ornithological club; 
Zoologist. 
Nine hundred and fourteen books have been borrowed from the 
library by 131 persons; 264 volumes have been borrowed for use in 
the building, and the library has been consulted 553 times. 
Six hundred and fifty-live volumes have been bound in 406 covers. 
The list of 12 serials, 230 volumes, indexed this year is as follows: 
Allgemeine schweizerisclie gesellschaft fur die gesammten naturwis- 
senschaften : Neue denkschriften (natural history articles). 23 vols. 
Archiv fur anatomie und pliysiologie. 38 vols. 
Bibliotheca zoologica. 10 vols. 
Danzig. Naturforscliende gesellschaft: Schriften (natural history 
articles). 8 vols. 
Dresden. Leopoldinisch-carolinisclie akademie. Verhandlungen 
(natural history articles). 39 vols. 
Flora Brasiliensis. 32 vols. 
Frankfurt a. M. Senckenbergische naturforscliende gesellschaft: 
Abhandlungen. 19 vols. 
