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endeavouring to indiice any of their friends who have a love of 

 Nature to join the Society. It should be more widely known 

 that Members have the advantage of a valuable Library of 

 Scientific Works, and are also free to make use of the excellent 

 Microscope in the Society's Room. A form of application is 

 subjoined to this Report. 



Your Committee feel that the thanks of the Society are 

 due to those Members who have contributed papers and 

 exhibited various objects during the year, and also to the 

 President, the Hon. and Rev. Canon Fremantle ; to the Hon. 

 Treasiu-er and Librarian, Col. Horsley, R.E. ; to the Hon. 

 Secretary, Mr. W. P. Mann ; to the Hon. Assistant Secretary, 

 Mr. E. B. Hayward ; and to Mr. Gr. Rigden for a\iditing the 

 accounts. 



LIBRARIAN'S REPORT FOR 1885. 



The sum granted for expenditure on the Library for the 

 year under review was £10. Rather more than this sum has 

 been spent, not however in providing additional books, but 

 rather in completing as far as practicable what was wanting of 

 the Volumes and Numbers of the various Periodicals taken in 

 by the Society. For instance, the back Numbers of the Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History and the Zoologist, both of 

 which had been previously discontinued, the Quarterly Micros- 

 copical Journal Vol. 10 for 1862, the Midland Naturalist Vols. 

 5, 6, 7, 1882-4, and CardifE Reports Vol. 6, 1874— Vol. 16, 

 1884, have all been paid for out of last year's grant. By 

 means of gifts from Societies and individuals, very considerable 

 additions have also been made during the year in completing 

 the series of transactions and proceedings of Naturalists' 

 Societies, thereby adding greatly to the value of the Library. 

 They are not mentioned in detail in this Report as a MSS. 

 Catalogue lies on the Library Table, giving a full description of 

 them and of their places on the shelves, and there is also a 

 Classified List for reference. The following Books have been 

 added to the Library : — 

 Hugh Miller's " Cruise of the Betsy." 

 Huxley " On the Crayfish." 



