science has sustained in the decease of so excellent and 

 amiable a man." 



It only remained that the Council, when submitting to the 

 attention of their constituents this state of the various depart- 

 ments of the Society, and recognising in each the eiFects of his 

 zeal, his knowledge, his diligence, and devotion to the best 

 interests of the Society, should endeavour to express their 

 sense of the obligations which the Society has received from 

 that highly gifted and most estimable gentleman. 



Since the last annual report, the 5th part of the Transactions, 

 forming the 1st part of the 2nd volume, has been published, 

 and has been received with the same favour as those which 

 preceded it. The printed Proceedings of the Society have also 

 been distributed in the usual way, and a Catalogue for the use 

 of the visitors to the Garden, and a second of the contents of 

 the Museum are in preparation. 



In addition to the liberal donation of books referred to, the 

 Council have also the gratification further to report, that they 

 have received from time to time from various learned bodies, 

 and from individual wellwishers to this part of the establish- 

 ment, other valuable and interesting works on subjects of Na- 

 tural History ; among which may be specially noticed, 



The Transactions of the Berlin Academy; the Transactions 

 of the Royal Academy of Turin ; the Transactions of the Ame- 

 rican Philosophical Society ; the Transactions of the Geolo- 

 gical Society of London ; the Proceedings of the Academy 

 at Paris ; Memoires of the Imperial Academy at Petersburgh, 

 and of the Imperial Society of Naturalists at Moscow; Me- 

 moirs of the Physical and Natural History Society of Ge- 

 neva ; also the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society; 

 and the Catalogue from the Royal College of Surgeons. 



To Mr. Gould the Society is indebted for the whole of his 

 published works on Ornithology, so remarkable for the beauty 

 and accuracy of the illustrations. Among other contributors, 

 the Council have to mention the Rev. Mr. Kirby, Dr. Roget, 

 Mr. Cox, Mr. Hardisty, &c., &c. 



