The following books have been purchased during the 

 year : — The Mieographical Dictionary, Natural History 

 of Brighton (Mrs Merrifield), Guenee's Lepidoptere, with 

 Atlas, Kurr's Mineral Kingdom, Sowerb/s British Wild 

 Flowers, Bennett's Gatherings of a Naturalist in 

 Australasia, Owen's Paloeontology, Darwin's Origin of 

 Species, Stainton's Tineina (5th vol.), Stainton's Manual 

 of Butterflies and Moths. 



Your Committee have much pleasure in reporting 

 that there is a very marked increase in the circulation 

 of the books and periodicals, and that high encomiums 

 are continually passed upon them by those well qualified 

 to judge of their intrinsic value as books of reference. 



Twenty-one volumes have been bound during the 

 year, but your Committee regret to say that the following 

 numbers are required to complete the periodicals and 

 magazines ordered to be bound, — all efforts to recover the 

 missing numbers having been hitherto fruitless : — 



The Zoologist — February and March, 1854 ; February and 

 March, 1856 ; July, 1857 ; Nov., 1858 ; 

 Jan., Feb., and June, 1859. 



The Geologist— Jan. and Feb., 1859. 



The Geological Quarterly Journal — Nos. 56, 57, 68 and 59. 



The Phytologist— Nov., ] 857 ; Feb., 1858. 



The Naturalist — Jan., Feb., March, and April, 1854 ; 

 Jan., Feb., April, Dec, 1856; Jan., 1857- 

 The whole of 1855, excepting May. 



