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the Society); Notes on the Species of Hepatice, found in the 
Eastbourne District (from F. C. R. Roper, Esq.); Catalogue of 
Fossils in the Brighton Museum (H. Willett, Esq.); Eighth 
Annual Report of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club, 1870-71 ; 
Geological Notices of North Hampshire (pamphlet), 1872 
(Dr, Stevens, Esq.); Slickensides on Rubbed Rocks in Various 
Situations (from the Eastbourne Natural History Society); 
E. 8. Dewick, on the Hydroid Zoophytes of this Coast—East- 
bourne (from the Natural History Society); Boring Mollusks, 
Worms, and Sponges; Crustacea; Podothalmata, and the Histology 
of their Shells (from E. Parfitt, Esq.) ; Evelyn’s Sylva, and Rea’s 
Flora, in three books, bound in one (Mr. R. Glaisyer); Report 
of the Sub-Wealden Exploration; Flint Works at Cissbury 
(Dr. Stevens). 
The following Books have been purchased during the year :— 
Journal of the Linnean Society from the commencement— 
14 vols.; Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames 
(Phillips); Sowerby’s English Botany—11th Vol.; Manual of 
Geology (Jukes and Geikie); Transactions of the Paleonto- 
graphical Society ; Transactions of the Linnean Society—Part 2, 
Vol. 18—Part 1, Vol. 19; Evans’s Stone Implements; Bastian’s 
Beginnings of Life, 2 Vols.; Jefferies’ British Conchology, 
5 Vols. 
The number of volumes in the Library, which at the date of 
the last Report was 700, has been increased to about 760. The 
circulation of the Books continues to increase. The Library, 
having received very numerous additions since the last Catalogue ~ 
was printed, your Committee have issued a new edition. 
During the year the Society's Microscopical Cabinet, which 
