PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1871-72.) 



November 2nd, 1871. 



George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The following Report, on the Additions to the Library received 

 since the last Meeting, was laid before the Society : — 



As usual, at your first assembling after the recess, the table is 

 loaded with the Transactions, Proceedings, and other publications 

 received since the close of the last session, many of them of great 

 value to lis, although we cannot say that the whole, or even any thing 

 near the whole, are directly connected with the sciences we take 

 cognisance of. The number of non-biological works and papers in 

 our libraiy has, indeed, so much increased of late, that when we re- 

 arrange them in our new rooms it will be a matter of serious con- 

 sideration to us whether we should not dispose, for instance, of such 

 as are purely medical, physical, &c., and decline to receive any such 

 for the future, so as to make more room for purely zoological, botanical, 

 or paloeontological works, of which there are many of considerable 

 bulk which we ought to purchase whenever our funds admit of our 

 BO doing. 



Among the publications on our table the Russian ones continue 

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