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Flora. The only specimens contained in this volume are mostly 
those of species added of late years; but at the commencement 
of the volume there is a catalogue of all the Plants obtained by 
myself in the neighbourhood of Bath, with reference to the exact 
volumes and page in the general herbarium in which any 
particular species is to be found. Reference to such would be 
very useful, in the case of any species which it is wanted to 
identify. And here I might go on to say how great are the 
advantages afforded to us in the Bath Literary and Scientific 
Institution. I would almost venture the remark that—apart from 
London and the Universities and the Kew Gardens—there is, 
perhaps, no place in this country where students of Natural 
History can find so much, in the way of books and collections, to 
aid them in their researches, as here in Bath. The Jenyns 
Library, with a most valuable and nearly complete Herbarium of 
British Plants ; the Broome Botanical books and collections in an 
adjoining room; the Duncan Museum, illustrating the Fauna of 
the Bath district and in part that of Somerset; the invaluable 
collection of Fossils, collected, I believe, mostly in the West of 
England, by the indefatigable researches and industry of the late 
Mr. Charles Moore, one of the early members of our Club; what 
more, it might be asked, could the student require ? 
The books in the Jenyns Library, the far greater part of which 
relate to Zoology and Botany, amount at the present time to 
considerably more than 2,000 volumes. It is especially rich in 
periodicals bearing more or less on the above subjects. It contains 
complete series of some of those published in the earlier part of 
this century ; besides which it possesses all the Transactions, 
Journals and Memoirs published by the Linnean and Zoological 
Societies, all the volumes of the Ray Society, the Anthropological 
Society and the Entomological Society. With respect to this 
last, I would call attention to the circumstance of the library 
possessing the first volume (and only volume that was ever 
published) of the Transactions of an Entomological Society that 
