REFORT. 



In presenting the Sixteenth Annual Report, 

 your Committee have the pleasure of recording the 

 continued prosperity of the Society. 



The state of the finances continues to be satis- 

 factory, there being a balance of £1 Is. 4d. in the 

 hands of the Treasurer, after expending £29 5s. 9d. in 

 the purchase of new Books and Periodicals. 



The following Books hare been presented to the 

 Society during the year : — Bradbury, on Nature 

 Printing, 1 vol., presented by T. H. Hennah, Esq. ; 

 Eecherches Scientiflques en Orient, Albert Gaurdy^ 

 presented by Thomas Davidson, Esq., 1 vol. ; 

 Spallanzani on Animals, 2 vols., presented by T. H. 

 Hennah, Esq., on certain Butterfly Scales, Character- 

 istic of Sex ; 2nd Series by T. W. Wonfor, Esq., from 

 the same; Scientific Opinion, presented by the Editor. 



The following Books have been purchased during the 

 year : — Transactions of the Ethnological Society, 1869, 



