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and 23 dissertations ; 5 books have been purchased (in addition 

 to the periodicals on the regular subscription list). 



During the past session the Society has arranged to exchange 

 publications with the following : — University of Colorado ; 

 Physikalisch-medicinische Gesellschaft zu Erlangen ; Museo 

 Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa ; Sevcenko-Gesellschaft der 

 Wissenschaften, Lemberg ; Universite de Lille ; National 

 Physical Laboratory, Teddmgton ; United States National 

 Museum, Washington. 



The author-index of the papers, communications, and exhibits 

 brought before the Society from its foundation until 1901, as 

 recorded in the Memoirs and Proceedings, is now completed, and 

 is available for reference. 



The publication of the Memoirs and Proceedings has been 

 continued under the supervision of the Editorial Committee. 



The Council has received with great regret the resignation 

 of Mr. Charles Leigh, Assistant Secretary and Librarian to the 

 Society, who has been appointed Deputy Librarian of the Owens 

 College, Manchester. The Council has appointed, as his suc- 

 cessor, Mr. A. P. Hunt, B.A., Sub-Librarian of Balliol College, 

 Oxford. 



The Society is indebted to the following gentlemen for the 

 undermentioned gifts : — 



Mr. F. Nicholson, F.Z.S., for a framed engraved portrait of 



Peter Clare, a former Secretary of the Society ; 

 Mr. A. VV. Waters, F.G.S., for a copy of Beer and Madler's 



" Mappa Selenographica ;" 

 The late Mr. John MuUin, for his binocular microscope, and 



a series of microscopic slides ; 

 Mr. Fred H. Smith, for Pearson's "The Hepaticae of the 



British Isles," 2 vols. (1902) ; and 

 Mr. Thomas Thorp, F.R.A.S., for a casting of a Japanese 



" magic" mirror. 



