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Report of the Librarian for the year 1871. 



The funds at the disposal of the Librarian during the year 1871, con- 

 sisted of £1 15s. 8d., being the balance remaining from 1870, and £10 

 from the general funds of the Society, making a total of £11 15s. 8d. 

 Of this sum £3 lis. 5d. was spent in the purchase of new works, as 

 mentioned below, £6 Os. lOd. for periodicals, and 17s. lid. for 

 binding eight volumes of the previous year's periodicals, leaving a 

 balance in hand of £1 5s. 6d. 



The new works above refen-ed to are — 



1. Westwood's Modern Classification of Insects, 2 Vols., 8vo. 



2. Rymer Jones' Outlines of Organization of Animal Kingdom, 1 Vol. 



3. Quekett's Lectures on Histology, &c., 2 Vols. 



The periodicals taken in by the Society are the same as in 1870. 

 In return for the one guinea annual subscription to the Ray 

 Society the following work has been received, viz. — 



A Monograph of the Gymnoblastic or Tubularian Hydroids, folio, by 

 G. J. Allmann, M.D. 



The undei-mentioned pamphlets were presented to the Society, 

 viz. — 



Cmstacea Amphipoda Borealia et Arctica, by Axel Boeck. 

 Phanerogainer og Bregner, by A. Blytt (from the Eoyal University of 



Norway). 

 Third Annual Eeport of the Folkestone Natural History Society for 



1871. 

 First Eeport of the Proceedings of the Croydon Microscopical Club for 



1871. 

 Third Annual Report of the Eastbourne Natural History Society for 



1871. 



