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Li j)reseiitmg the Fifteenth Annual Eeport, 

 youi- Committee have the pleasui'e of recording the 

 continued i)rosperity oi" the Society. 



The state of the huauces continues to be 

 ciatisfactory, there being a balance of 8s. 6d. in the 

 hands of the Treasurer, after expending £29 16s. 3d. 

 in the piu-chase of new Books and Periodicals. 



The following Books have been presented to 

 the Society during the year, viz. : — Anniversary 

 Address, delivered before the Autlu-opological 

 Society of London, January 3rd, 1865, by James 

 Hunt (pamphlet), by W. E. C. Kourse, Esq. ; 

 General System of Nature, by Liune, 7 vols., by 

 Mr. Smith ; List of Linnean Societ}- of London 

 (pami)hlet), by the Society; Newman's Essay on 

 the Employment of Physiological characters in the 

 Classification of Animals (pamphlet), by W. E. C. 

 Nourse, Esq. ; certain Butterfly Scales, Character- 

 istic of Sex (pamphlet), by T. W. Wonfor, Esq. 



