XXVI PBOCEEDINGS OF THE 



General Library of the Society. They are all marked iu the hand 

 of the late Sir James Edward Smith as derived ' E Bibliotheca 

 Linnaei propria.' There is no separate catalogue of them ; but 

 they are entered in the General Catalogue of the Library, with 

 the exception of a few miscellaneous volumes not relating to 

 natural history, chiefly medical theses. 



" The remaining portion of the Books, which must be regarded as 

 the most important, as containing MS. notes by Linnaeus himself, 

 and as connected with his Herbarium and other collections, are 

 contained in a case placed in the meeting-room near the Linnean 

 Herbarium. 



" The Committee consider it to be highly desirable that the 

 Natural-History Library of Linnaeus should be separated from the 

 rest of the Society's books : 



" That a list should be made of the volumes so separated : 



" That for the future these volumes be not lent out to the Fel- 

 lows without the special permission of the Council. 



" 2. Manuscripts. 



" The Manuscripts are contained in a large chest in the south- 

 western room of the second floor of the Society's house, and are 

 in an excellent state of preservation. They are at present tied 

 up in bundles ; but the Committee consider it desirable that, when 

 the Society is able to afford it, the correspondence should be 

 mounted on guards and bound in volumes. 



"3. Plants. 



" The Herbarium is contained in three upright narrow cabinets 

 formerly belonging to Linnaeus, and in which it has remained up 

 to the present time : these cabinets are placed in the meeting- 

 room of the Society. The plants are in excellent condition, and 

 well protected in conformity with directions given by the Council 

 on the recommendation of a committee in 1836. The Committee 

 recommend that these cabinets should be conspicuously distin- 

 guished by means of a framework or in some other way. 



" 4. Insects. 



" The Insects are in a good and secure cabinet placed in the 

 south-western room of the second floor, and are in an excellent 

 state of preservation. While in the possession of the first Pre- 

 sident of the Society, the late Sir J. E. Smith, a number of addi- 

 tional insects were incorporated with those of Linnaeus ; and the 



