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of which one consists of Indian plants,^ and the other was 

 collected in Germany. * 



To the donor of the latter the Society has been under 

 numerous obligations; but the munificent present which 

 he has this year made to the Library deserves particular 

 notice; a present consisting of costly and useful books on 

 various subjects of natural history and philosophy, amount- 

 ing to no less a number than two hundred volumes. The 

 Council has also to acknowledge the honor of having 

 received copies of several new works from their ingenious 

 Authors, and of having been favored with the publications 

 of many learned bodies, in particular with the Reports of 

 the Literary and Philosophical Societies of Leeds and 

 Newcastle; the Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Geological 

 Society of London ; the Transactions of the Society of Arts, 

 of the Royal Asiatic Society, and the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal ; and the Archaeologia of the Antiquarian Society 

 of Newcastle. 



Lastly, to the cabinet of Antiquities, and to the collec- 

 tion, if collection it can yet be called, of Philosophical 

 Apparatus, some valuable additions have been made. Of 

 the former the most remarkable are the various relics of 

 ancient superstition, combined with ancient art and learning, 

 which have been brought by the donor' from the cata- 

 combs of Thebes in upper Egypt. The latter consist of an 



Presented by the Rev. J. Graham, ' Presented by S. Stapylton, Esq. 

 3 Col. H. Vernon. 



