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felt between Mr. Nelson's removal and the appointment of his 

 successor, Col. Horsley most kindly undertook the Secretary's 

 duties till the end of the year. 



LIBEARIAN'S EEPORT. 



It was not considered advisable, in consequence of the 

 receipts of the year being very little above the ordinary 

 expenditure of the year, to make any purchases of new books 

 for the Library, the sum received from the Hon. Treasurer, 

 viz., £6 2s., being suflScient only for the payment of the 

 Periodicals taken in by the Society, and for binding those of 

 the previous year. Of the above sum the periodicals cost 

 £3 16s. lid., and the binding of 15 vols. £2 5s. Id. 



The 1st Vol. of Michael's British Oribatidce was received 

 from the Eay Society in 1884, in return for the Annual 

 Subscription of One Gruinea to that Society. 



The following gifts to the Library are acknowledged with 

 the best thanks of the Society to the donors : — 



1. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society for 1884, pre- 



sented by the Society. 



2. Journal of the Postal Microscopical Society for 1884, 



presented by Col. Horsley, R.E. 



3. Reports from — 



a Cardiff Natural History Society. 



b Rochester Natural History Society. 



e Croydon Microscopical and Natural History Club 



(Proceedings and Transactions). 

 d Eastbourne Natui-al History Society (Transactions) . 

 e Transactions of the Essex Field Club. 



4. Pamphlet by W. Gr. Smith, Esq., on the Paloeolithic Floor 



of N. E. London. 



5. Meteorological Notes by S. Kingsford, Esq., presented by 



Miss Kingsford. 

 t). Smithsonian Report for 1882, Presented by the same 



Society. 

 7. Gsologieal Report of the United States of America, 1880 



to 1881, Presented by the United States Grovemment 



Greological Department. 



