xxxii. Annual Report. 



(exclusive of the usual exchanges) were 46 volumes ; 2 Tolumej^ 

 were purchased in addition to those regularly subscribed for. 

 During the year 89 volumes have been bound in 73 covers. In 

 the previous Session the corresponding numbers were 87 

 volumes in 72 covers. 



The donations to the Society's Library during the Session 

 included gifts of books by Messrs. Edward Bennis and Co., Ltd. ; 

 Mr. David Brownlie ; Mr. Edward Melland ; Mr. C. E. Stromeyer ; 

 Mr. J. H. Wolfenden ; Mr. H. J. Woodall ; Messrs. Adam Hilger,. 

 Ltd. ; the Committee for the Publication of the Scientific Results 

 of the Captain Scott Antarctic Fund ; the Trustees of the British 

 Museum (Natural History) ; the Royal Geographical Society,. 

 London ; the Geological Society, London ; the Patent Office 

 Library, London; the Director of the Royal Observatory, 

 Greenwich ; the Meteorological Office, London ; the Director of 

 the Geological Survey of India; the Governor of Bengal in 

 Council; the Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te 

 Amsterdam ; the Academic Royale, Brussels ; the Bataviaasch 

 Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, Batavia ; the 

 Soci^t6 Hollandaise des Sciences, Haarlem ; the Kongeligt Norsk 

 Videnskabers Selskab, Trondhjem; the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington; and 

 the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



The following Journals have been added to the Society's 

 subscription list as from January 1922 : — The General Electric 

 Review, the Journal of Comparative Psychology, The Physical 

 Review, The Kolloid Zeitschrift and Kolloid-chemische Beihefte. 

 The Zeitschrift filr physikalische Chemie has been completed up 

 to and including Band 96 (1920). 



The purchases included volume 17 of The Royal Society's 

 Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1884— 1900; and a copy of the 

 World List of Scientific Periodicals has been ordered. 



The Library continues to be satisfactorily used for reference 

 purposes ; and, during the year, 304 volumes have been bor- 

 rowed. The number of books borrowed during the previous- 

 year was 357, and during 1919-20, 434. 



The publication of the Society's Memoirs and Proceedings has 

 been continued under the supervision of the Publications Com- 

 mittee. During the year volume 64 (1919-20), Part II (end), and 

 volume 65 (1920-21), Part I, of the Memoirs and Proceedings,. 

 have been published. The concluding part (II) of volume 65, 

 with a revised list of members, and Volume 66 (1921-22) are in 

 the printer's hand. 



The exchange of bound volumes for the corresponding 



