Early in the autumn of last year there was issued a Supplement to 

 the previously existing Library Catalogue of the Society. Since 

 then, however, a number of important volumes have been added — 

 amongst others the following : — 



Official Report of the Challenger Expedition — Narrative. Vol. II. 



Do, The Petrels, Deep Sea Medusse and Holothurians. Vol. IV. 



Do. Ophiuroideae, &c. Vol. V. 



Do. Actinaria and Tunicata. Vol. VI. 



18 Volumes of British Association Reports, 1834 — 1863. Presented by the 



Committee of the British Association, 

 List of British Birds. 

 Hibberd's Marine Aquarium. 

 Nature. Vols. XXVI. and XXVII, 



As in previous years the following Periodicals have been regularly 



obtained : — 



Weekly — Nature. 



Monthly — Science Gossip, the Geological Magazine, and the Journal of Botany. 



Quarterly — The Scottish Naturalist. 



The Membership of the Society at the present time consists of — 



11 Hon. Members, 

 9 Corresponding Members, 

 320 Ordinary Members, and 

 112 Associates. 



452 in all. 



In January the Council sustained a loss in the death of Mr Robert 

 Low, the late active and intelligent Assistant Secretary, and his 

 colleagues desire here to record their grateful sense of the many and 

 important services rendered by Mr Low to the Society, and their very 

 deep regret at the early removal of one so amiable as a friend, so 

 promising as a student of science, and so useful a member of the 

 Society. 



In completing this Report, your Council beg to express their grati- 

 tude to all who have aided them in carrying on the work of the 

 Society, and to thank the members generally for the confidence and 

 support given them during their term of office. 



JAMES RORIE, President. 



FRANK W. YOUNG, Hon. Secretary. 



