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port of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club; from the respective 
Societies. The Natural History of the British Diatomacea, by A. 
Scott Donkin, Esq., 1 Part; Ice, a Lecture delivered before the Kes- 
wick Literary Scciety, vy J. Clifton Ward, Esq., from the Author; 
Descriptive List of Flint Implements, found at St. Mary Bourne, 
by Dr. Stevens, from the Author; Ten Pamphlets on Rizopods, 
Sponges, Diatoms, &c., by Dr. G. C. Wallich, from the Author; 
Vol. 12 of the Linnean Society’s Journal, presented by Dr. 
Addison; Rashleigh’s Specimens of British Minerals, and Ellis’s 
Arrangement of many curious and uncommon Zoophytes, presented 
by T. H. Hennah, Esq. 
The following Books have been purchased during the year :— 
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, by C. 
Darwin, 2 Vols.; Transactions of the Linnean Society, 3rd Part, 
Vol. 27 ; Monograph of the Gymnoblastic or Tubularian Hydroids, 
by Allman—Ray Society; The British Species of the Angio 
Carpous Lichens, by W. A. Leighton; Owen on the Vertebrates, 
8rd Vol.; The Students’ Elements of Geology, by Sir C. Lyell; 
Issue from the Palaeontographical Society for 1870; Cooke's 
Handbook of British Fungi, 2nd Part; Hewitson’s Eggs of 
British Birds, 2 Vols.; How to Work with the Microscope, by 
Lionel §. Beale, 4th Edition; Newman’s Illustrated Natural 
History of British Butterflies;. Robinson’s Parks, Promenades, 
and Gardens of Paris; Leighton’s Lichen Flora; M. A. Lower’s 
Sussex, 2 Vols.; Journal of Linnean Society, 11 Vols. 
Serials: Entomologist, 1 Vol.; Entomologist’s Monthly 
Magazine, 1 Vol.; Geological Magazine, 1 Vol.; Monthly 
Microscopical Journal, 1 Vol.; Popular Science Review, 1 Vol. ; 
Quarterly Journal of the Microscopical Society, 1 Vol.; Quarterly 
Journal of Science, 1 Vol.; Science Gossip, 1 Vol.; Student, 1 
Vol., the publication of which has ceased ; Zoologist, 1 Vol. 
The number of Volumes in the Library, which at the date of 
the last Report was 643, has since been increased to about 700. 
The circulation of the Books continues to increase. The Library 
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