10 



ing Margate he was an active member of the Croydon Society, 

 but he still maintained his association with the East Kent 

 Society. 



HOX. LIBEAEI.IN'S REPORT FOR 1888. 



The sum granted for expenditure on the Library for the 

 year under review was £12 ; of this sum £7 14s. od. only was 

 spent, and the greater part of that, viz., £5 14s. 3d., was for 

 Periodicals ; one new work was purchased, viz., " Stain- 

 ton's Manual of British Butterflies, 2 vols , 1869, at a cost of 

 10s. ; and twelve volumes of Periodicals of the previous year 

 were bound and placed on the shelves, the cost of binding 

 being £1 9s. 8d. 



The Ray Societ}', in return for the annual subscription of 

 one guinea, have furnished the Society with Vol. 2 British 

 Oribatidoe by Alb. D. Michael. The serial works purchased 

 by the Society consist of — 



1. The Midland Naturalist. 



2. The Journal of Botany. 



3. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



4. The Zoologist. 



5. Science Gossip. 



6. The Geologist. 



7. The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. 



To these may be added the Journal of the Royal Microscopical 

 Society, presented by that Society. 



The Library has been further strengthened by gifts from 

 various kind donors, amounting in all to twenty-five Volumes 

 and Pamphlets, viz. :— 



Geologist. The, Vol. 5, 1862, prest^titmi by G. Dowker, Esq. 

 Oestland, O. W., Synopsis of Aphididse of Minnesota, 1887. Bulletin ^ 



4 of Natural History of iliimesota " 



Wadsworth, M. E., Preliminary Description of tbe Peridotytes, 



Gabbens Diaboses, ami Andosytes of Minnesota, 1887. Bulletin 



2 of Natural History Survey of Minnesota )»'o 



Arthur, J. C and others. Report on Botanical Work in Minnesota, 



1886. Bulletin 3 of Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minnesota. 

 Report, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota for 



tbe year 1886. J 



Smithsonian Report, Part 2, 1887. Preseute'l. 

 Abercroniby.Hon. Ralph, oa Photographs of Lightning Flashes, piesented 



by Mr.B. Rigden. 

 Nature, Vol'*. 34, 35, 36, bound ; Vols. 37, 38 in Nos., presented by Mr. 



G. Rigdfn. 



