108 EEPORT OF COUNCIL. 



Association for tlie Advancement of Science, to complete their con- 

 tribution of £500 as Governors of tlie Association ; £100 from the 

 Clothworkers' Company, to complete their contribution of £500 as 

 Governors of the Association ; £200 from the Fishmongers' Com- 

 pany ; and £500 from H.M.'s Treasury, being their Annual Sub- 

 scriptions for five years from 1888. 



From annual subscriptions and compositions £201 was received, 

 in addition to £45 for rent of tables, specimens, &c., £128 interest 

 on investments, and £340 towards a launch. 



The expenditure, as shown in the Treasurer's account presented 

 herewith, amounted to £5363, which includes £3735, the balance of 

 the contracts. 



The Association has now in hand, in cash and invested, £2550. 



The Library has received important additions during the past 

 year, but many works are still required to make it complete. The 

 Lords Commissioners of H.M. Treasury have been pleased as an ex- 

 ceptional measure to present a complete set of the " Challenger " 

 publications to the Association, and the Council wish to record 

 their gratitude for this valuable gift. The thanks of the Asso- 

 ciation are also specially due to Professor A. A. W. Hubrecht 

 for many zoological works collected in Holland and forwarded by 

 him ; to Professor Franz Vejdovsky for a gift of his works on oligo- 

 chaete worms ; to Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer for a present of the 

 back numbers of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science ; 

 to the executors of the late R. Holman Peck for books and scien- 

 tific materials and apparatus ; to Professor G. B. Howes for a 

 complete set of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle ; to Messrs, J. and A. 

 Churchill for current numbers of the Quarterly Journal of Micro- 

 scopical Science ; to Sir Henry Acland for several valuable woi'ks on 

 zoology; to Mr. Rupert Yallentin for a copy of Forbes' rare mono- 

 graph of the British Naked-eyed Medusa; to Dr. Brady and the 

 Rev. A. M. Norman for a copy of their recent monograph of the 

 Marine and Freshwater Ostracoda; to Professor Marion for the 

 Anuales du Musee d'histoire naturelle de Marseille ; to Professor 

 Alexander Agassiz, the Naples Zoological Station, the University of 

 Copenhagen, the Liverpool Marine Biological Society, and the Marine 

 Fisheries Society of Japan, and also to many naturalists for sets of 

 their scientific papers. 



The Council desire to record the indebtedness of the Association 

 to the Councils of the Royal Society and the Linnsean Society for 

 kindly permitting the Association to hold the periodic meetings of 

 the Council and Association in their rooms. 



The Council regret to have to announce that Mr. Frank Crisp, 

 who has since the foundation of the Association been its Honorary 



