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Journals obtained in exchange for our Society’s Proceedings and 
Transactions. As these will, under certain conditions, be made 
available for being borrowed by members, they will be more 
accessible than formerly for purposes of reference; while a con- 
siderable saving will be effected in the expenditure of the Society, 
and a large amount of library space made available for other 
purposes. Cordial thanks are due to the Library Committee for 
the very satisfactory results accomplished through their labours. 
Thanks are also due to the following donors of books :— 
(1) To various members of the Society, for a copy of Dr. M. C. 
Cooke’s recently published work on British Desmids, with coloured 
plates, purchased by their voluntary subscriptions. As this is the 
most recent work on the British Desmidiezx, the Council trust that 
its acquisition will have the effect of stimulating local research in 
& very interesting department of cryptogamic botany which has 
hitherto been almost neglected by the Society. 
(2) To the Committee for the Exploration of the Marine Flora 
of the West of Scotland, for.25 copies of the Hand-List of the 
Algae of the Clyde Sea Area, by Mr. E. A. L. Batters, LL.B., 
B.A., F.L.S., with Map, presented by the Committee. 
Publishing Commitiee.—During the past year, Vol. III., Part 
2, of the Proceedings and Transactions, containing most of the 
papers read during Session 1889-90, has been distributed to the 
members. The printing of Vol. III, Part 3, has been almost 
completed, and the whole of the remaining manuscript is now in 
the hands of the printer. 
Microscopical Committee.—The Council regret that owing to 
the removal of Mr. C. O. Sonntag from Glasgow to Edinburgh, the 
Society is deprived of his services as an energetic and useful 
member of this Committee. During last session, on the recom- 
_ mendation of Mr. Sonntag, six lamps and other apparatus were 
purchased, with the view of providing more adequately for the 
_ exhibition of microscopic objects at the meetings of the Society. 
The lamps have already proved of much benefit to exhibitors ; 
and as they are kept ready for immediate use whenever required, 
it is hoped that the knowledge of this fact will lead to a larger 
amount of interesting microscopic material being brought forward 
for exhibition at the winter meetings. * 
British Association.—The Society continues to be enrolled on 
