will not fail to communicate any observations they make. 



All persons interested in Scientific work are eligible for 

 Membership under conditions specified in Rule 2, and your 

 Committee would urge upon the members the desirability of 

 endeavouring to induce 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 Eoom. A form of application is 

 subjoined to this Eeport. 



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 Rev. R. N. Grandy ; to the Hon. Treasurer 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. Rigdeu for auditing the accounts. 



LIBRARIAN'S REPORT FOR 1886. 



The sum granted for expenditiu'e on the Library for the 

 year under review was £12. The whole of this sum was not 

 spent, but only £10 18s. 8d., and this was expended almost 

 entirely for Periodicals for 1885 and 1886, and for binding a 

 large number of those of previous years. No less than thu-ty- 

 six volumes have, in this way, been added to the Library in 

 1886, costing £3 9s. 8d. The only new work which has been 

 added to the Library from the Society's funds is entitled 

 " Larvse of British Butterflies and Moths," by Buckton, Ray 

 Society, 1885, in return for the annual subscription of one 

 guinea. But though no new works (with the one exception 

 just mentioned) have been purchased a large number have been 

 presented to the Society during the past year, as the following 

 list will show, viz. : — 



Presented by 



1. Reports of the Smithsonian Institution, ) Thk Boakd OF 



United States of America, 1884 . . . . j Eegents. 



2. Ditto, ditto, for 1863-0-8-9-73 .. .. James Eeid, Esq. 



3. Loudon's Arboretum Britanicum, 4 vols. \ T-v^TTn 



Text, 4 vols. Plates, 8 vols. 1854 . . . . ) ■^^^^'^• 



(flowering of plants, &c.) ; injurious insects, (first appearance, &c.) 

 (F) Working of Education Code in Elementary Schools ; rudimentary 

 Science iu Schools. (G) Effective wind pressure on buildings. 

 (H) Photographs of typical races and crosses; Ancient earthworks 

 prehistoric remains; Anthropometric collections. 



