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CURATORS' REPORT. 



During the year 114 slides were issued to 10 members, as 

 against 239 slides and 18 members for the previous year, and 205 

 slides and 19 members for the year 1921. 



We are indebted to Mr. F. W. Hutton for the gift of the 

 folio vving two slides: — Marine Polyzoa : Idmonia serpens. 

 Entomology : — (Symphyta) : Ovipositor of Rhadinoceraea micans. 

 The total number of slides in the cabinets is now 1,311. 



LIBRARIAN'S REPORT. 



Daring the past year 4o books were issued on loan to members, 

 these b?ing distribxited among approximately 25 readers. These 

 figures, as compared with 1922, show a decrease in the number 

 of books issued, viz., 45 as against 83 in 1922. 



The following books and periodicals have been added to the 

 Library since the last report was read before the Society : — 

 Quarterly Journals of the Royal Microscopical Society, Ouekett 

 Club, Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalists' Club, and the Queensland 

 Naturalist. Six volumes from the Ray Society, viz., " British 

 Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa " (Vols. IV and V) by Cash 

 and Wailes : " British Charophj'ta," by Graves and Bullock 

 Webster ; " British Orthoptera," by Lucas ; " British Marine 

 .\neUds " (Vol. IV, Parts 1 and 2) by Mcintosh ; and "Elements 

 of Insect Anatomy," by Comstock and Kellog. Presented bj^ Dr. 

 C. Hay Murray: "Monograph on the Bed-bug"; "English Mechanic" 

 11 vols.; " Chart on Object-mounting "; "Transactions of 

 the Linnean Societj'," Vol. VI (Part 10) ; " Transactions of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh," Vol. XLVI (Part 1). Presented 

 by Mr. James Gauld : " Handbook of British Hepaticae," by 

 Cooke ; " Mosses and Liverworts," by Russell. Presented by 

 Mr. F. N. Pierce, F.E.S. : " The Genitalia of the Tortricidae," 

 by Pierce and Metcalf. Presented byvMr. R. A. Sloan : " Charts 

 on Optics." Thus there is a total of 414 volumes and pamphlets 

 in the Library. 



