xxviii Annual Report of the Council. 



A record of the accessions to the library shows that, from 

 April, 1909, to March, 19 10, 762 serials and 95 separate works 

 were received, a total of 857 volumes. The donations during 

 the session (exclusive of the usual exchanges) amount to 90 

 volumes and 143 dissertations ; five volumes 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 : — Laboratorio di Zoologia 

 generale e agraria di Portici ; Illinois State Geological Survey ; 

 Royal Society of South Africa, Cape Town ; Liverpool Botanical 

 Society ; and the State University of Oklahoma, Norman. 



The Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Anti- 

 quarian Field Club and the Fliartnaceutical fournal are no longer 

 received by the Society's Library, and the publication of the 

 Technology Quarterly, of Boston, U.S.A., has been discontinued. 



The publication of the Memoirs and Proceedings has been 

 continued under the supervision of the Editorial Committee. 



The Society is indebted to the following for the under- 

 mentioned gifts : — 



Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., for a copy of Dr. Angus 

 Smith's " Loch Elive and the Sons of Uisnach." 



Mr. Thomas Thorp, F.R.A.S., for a specimen of his new 

 silvered concave grating and for a case in which to 

 keep Dr. Joule's Chronometer-watch. 



Sir Thomas H. Holland, K.C.LE,, D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor 

 of Geology and Mineralogy in the Manchester University, was 

 invited to deliver the Wilde Lecture for 19 10. The Lecture, 

 on " Recent Contributions to Theories regarding the Internal 

 Structure of the Earth," was delivered on Tuesday, March 22nd, 

 1 910. 



The University of Cambridge celebrated the Darwin Cen- 

 tenary in June, 1909, and this Society was represented by the 



