REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN FOR 1880. 



TJie grant to the Librarian from the general funds of the Society 

 during the year under review has amounted in all to £10 19s. 6d. 

 Of this sura £2 18s. 5d. were expended in the purchase of new- 

 books, a list of which is given below, and £5 14s. lid. for periodi- 

 cals, inclusive of the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 

 for 1877 and 1878. A further sura of £2 4s. 9d. was paid for 

 binding 15 vols, of previous year's periodicals, and in the purchase 

 of missing Nos. to complete the several volumes before binding, 

 and Is. 5d. for carriage and postage. The low state of the Society's 

 funds did not permit of a larger sum being spent in the purchase of 

 Dew books. Those purchased were as follows, viz. : — 



1. Miiycr's Gcogr.ipliy of Plants, Ray Society, 1 vol., 8vo., 184G. 



2. Reports and Papers on Botany Ray Society, 1 vol., 8vo., 18 tC. 



3. Two Pamphlets by R. Brown, P.R.S. 

 «. Pollen of Plants, 8vo., 18:28. 



h. Organs of Orcbidacfe, &c., 8vo., 1831. 



4. Anatomy of the Blow Fly, by Lowue, B.T„ M.R.C.S., 1 vol.. Royal 8vo., 

 187G. 



5. Lyell's Elements of Geology, 1 vol., Royal 8yo., 1865. 

 (). Notes by a Naturalist, 1 vol.. Royal 8vo., 1879. 



7. Lubbock, Sir John's Lectures, 1 vol., Royal Svo., 1879. 



The following work has been received from the Eay Society 

 in return for the annual subseriptiou of one guinea, viz. : — 

 Monograph of the British Aphides, by G. B. Buckton, vol. 2 , 8vo., 1879. 



The Society acknowledges witli thanks the under mentioned 

 books and pamphlets, &e., received during 1879, viz : — " How to 

 Work with the Microscope," 1 vol... Eoyal 8vo., 1880, presented 

 by the autbor, Dr. Lionel ISeale, President Eoyal Itlicroscopical 

 Society. "Nature," 1879, by G. Eigden, Esq., M.E.C.S. The 

 journal of the Eoyal Microscopical Society, 1879. 



Pamphlets iu French, by Mr. Sibert Saunders, viz. : — 



Report of the Anniversary Meeting of the Linnean Society of Bordeaux, fur 



1870. Account of the Artificial Cultivation of Oysters at Arcachon in 187(5. 

 Pamphlets from the University of Christiauia, 



