Librari^. 



The formation of a collection of Books, embracing works 

 on Zoology and of general interest, has always been considered 

 by the Council as one of the objects contemplated by the 

 Founders of the Society ; the delay which has hitherto takeu 

 place in effecting this object has arisen from the desire of the 

 Council to devote, in the first instance, the resources of the 

 Society towards the acquisition of a Vivarium and Museum. 

 These objects having been attained, it is intended in future 

 to devote annually to the purchase of Books such sums as 

 may conveniently be spared from the general receipts. 



The Council take this opportunity of directing the special 

 attention of the Society to the valuable and important addition 

 which has been made to this department in the course of the 

 last two years by the late Secretary, their lamented colleague, 

 Edward Turner Bennett, Esq. 



The collection presented to the Society by that gentleman, 

 and selected by him with that excellent judgement for which 

 he was ever distinguished, consists of two hundred and 

 eighteen volumes, including the following standard works : 

 Cuvier, Les Ossemens Fossiles ; Sir Everard Home's Lectures 

 on Comparative Anatomy ; Linnai Systema Xaturce ; AnnaUs 

 du Museum tfHistoire XatureUe : Edwards's Natural History ; 

 Latham's General History of Birds; Lamarck's Histoire 

 IsatweUe des Animaujc sans Vertebres ; Richardson and Swain- 

 son's Fauna Boreali-Americana ; Brisson, Ornithologie ; 

 Transactions of the Linnean Society ; Le Vailiant's Histoire 

 Naturdle des Perroquets ; Buffon's Histoire XatureUe ; Plinii 

 Katuralis Historia ; Carus, Traite elementaire d'Anatomie ; 

 Buffon's Histoire Xaturelle des Oiseaux ; Vieillot's Galerie des 

 Oiseaux ; Philosophical Transactions, &c 



By these magnificent gifts did Mr. Bennett manifest his 

 generous interest in that department of the Society with which 

 the Council would now associate his name. One of the last 

 acts of his life was to direct the presentation to the Library 



