15 



A young male Red Deer from the north of Germany, pre- 

 sented by Frederick Weiss, Esq. 



Besides which, farther donations have been received from 

 Dr. Lewis ; G. Fairholme ; John Leadbeater ; John Mal- 

 colm; —Curtis; G. R.Waterhouse; — Henderson; William 

 Taylor ; T. C. Eyton ; H. T. N. Bawden ; George Bennett, 

 Corr. Memb. ; M. Edm. de Selys-Longchamps ; A. Ma- 

 cann ; Joseph Clark ; John Drummond Hay ; Mrs. Sturz ; 

 Mrs. Macdohald; C. Appleyard; John Goldham; T. Edgar; 

 Mrs. Nicholls ; John Brookes ; Rev. W. Bilton ; Robert 

 Mackay, Corr. Memb.; E. W. Elmslie ; A. E. Fuller; 

 Dr. Weissenborn; Robert N. Hunt; George Bentham ; 

 Rev. Edward Law, M.A., Corr. Memb. ; E. C. Prince ; 

 ^ Clark ; William Carr ; Joseph Toynbee ; Dr. W. Stan- 

 ger ; William Stockley. 



The number of Visitors to the Museum during the year 

 1839 was 3716, and the money received for admission 

 £31 3s. 



2. Library. 



The same principle which guided the Council with re- 

 gard to the Museum has been likewise extended to the Li- 

 brary during the past year. Till the Society acquire apart- 

 ments affording sufficient accommodation for the books it 

 already possesses, it is obviously inexpedient to increase 

 their number, or to risk the loss or injury of valuable and 

 expensive works, by exposing them to the insecurity and ca- 

 sualities which necessarily attend them in a crowded room 

 daily used for other purposes, and in which they cannot 

 possibly receive that regular superintendence which a well- 

 ordered library demands. Though, therefore, the Council 

 have not considered themselves called on to appropriate the 

 entire sum of £100 intended to be set apart for that purpose 

 to the augmentation of the Library, during the year which 

 has just expired,— for the principle of expediency must in 

 this, as in similar cases, be allowed to control all such ge- 

 neral rules, — they have nevertheless authorized the purchase 

 of all such works as were considered necessary for facilita- 



