xxvi Annual Report of the Council. 



229 volumes have been bound during the year in 192 covers. 

 The amount of binding for the previous session was 226 volumes 

 bound in 189. In addition to this binding of periodicals, 64 

 works of permanent value have been repaired or rebound, a 

 special grant having been made to meet this extra expenditure. 



The additions to the library for the session amounted to 

 955 volumes, 82S serials, and 127 separate works. The donations 

 (exclusive of the usual exchanges) were 126 volumes and 162 

 dissertations; i volume was purchased, in addition to those 

 regularly subscribed for. 



On the recommendation of a special Committee appointed 

 to inquire what periodicals it was desirable to add to the series 

 purchased by the Society, — consideration being given to the 

 periodicals subscribed to by other libraries in Manchester, — two 

 other journals, The Annals of Botany and The New Phytologist, 

 have been added to the purchase list. The subscriptions to The 

 Journal of Botatty, The Gardeners' Chronicle, and the Registrar- 

 GeneraPs Annual Report have been discontinued. 



New exchanges have been arranged with the following: — 

 Tohoku Imperial University {The Science Reports, and The Tohoku 

 Mathematical Journal), Sendai ; the Bureau of Productive 

 Industries (Icones Plantarufn Formosana7-u7n, nee non et Contri- 

 butiones ad Floratn Formosanam), Formosa ; Faraday Society 

 (Transactions), London; Indian Association for the Cultivation 

 of Science (Btillttins), Calcutta ; and the International Institute 

 of Agriculture {Monthly Bulletins and Agricultural Statistics), 

 Rome. 



The exchange with the Philosophical Society (Bulletin), 

 Washington, has been discontinued. 



Amongst the donations to the Society's Library during the 

 year mention should be made of a gift by the President of 

 volumes I — XX of The Annals of Botatiy. Gifts of books have 



