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last July will be the last of the series, and the future publica- 

 tions of the Societj will appear in the Soiifh Emieru Naturalist. 



Your Committee, in estimating the numerical strength of 

 the Society, have to record one great loss that has been 

 sustained in the death of Col. Cox, who was one of the founders 

 of the Society, who was several times its President, and who 

 always took an active and lively interest in its work and 

 proceedings. A vote of condolence with the family of the 

 deceased was conveyed to them, and the President and some 

 members of the Committee attended the funeral. 



It is very necessary that members should feel that the 

 Society requires to be recruited in numbers and strength, 

 particularly by young active students and observers in Natural 

 History, who would find many advantages in it, especially in 

 its good microscope and its well stored Library, which is 

 particularly rich iu periodical literature. 



HON. LIBRARIAN'S REPORT FOR 1889. 



The sum granted for expenditure on the Library for the 

 year under review was £12; of this sum £11 2s. 9d. was 

 expended, and the greater part of that was for Periodicals, viz., 

 £6 10s. lid. Two new works were purchased, viz.. Report of 

 Royal Society on the Eruption of Krakatoa, 1888, and Descent of 

 Man, by C. Darwin, 1888, at a total cost of £1 10s. 9d. Seven 

 Volumes of Serials of 1888, and others of previous years, 

 numbering altogether 24 Volumes, were bound and placed on 

 the shelves, the cost of binding being £3 Os. 4d. 



The Ray Society in return for the annual subscription of 

 one guinea, have furnished the Society with " Larvte of British 

 Butterflies and Moths " by Mr. Buckton, 1889. 



The serial works purchased by the Society remain the same 

 as last year, viz. — 



1. The Midland Naturalist. 



2. The Journal of Botany. 



3. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



4. The Zoologist. 

 6. Science Gossip. 



6. The Geologist. 



7. The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. 



to which may be added the Journal of the Royal Microscopical 

 Society, presented by that Society. 



The Library has been further streugthenel by gifts from 



