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ting the laboui*s of the officers in arranging and naming the 

 Ornithological Collection, and other duties connected with 

 the regular routine of business in the Scientific department. 

 Among the books pui'chased for this purpose was a com- 

 plete copy of the " Planches Coloriees," the Voyage of the 

 Beagle, Zoological and Geological parts, &c. 



Donations to the Library. 



The most important donations to the Library, during the 

 past year, consisted of the following works of individuals, and 

 Transactions of Learned Bodies in correspondence with the 

 Society : • 



Transactions of the Royal L-ish Academy, 16 vols., pre- 

 sented by the Academy- 

 Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, pre- 

 sented by the Royal Society. 



Transactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Stock- 

 liolm, presented by the Royal Academy. 



Transactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, 

 presented by the Royal Academy. 



Transactions of the Imperial Academy of Naturalists of 

 Breslaw, presented by the Imperial Academy. 



Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, presented 

 by the Linnean Society. 



Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 

 presented by the Society. 



The Zoology of South Africa, presented by Dr. A. Smith, 

 Corr. Memb. 



Fauna Italica, presented by the Prince di Musignano, For. 

 Memb. 



Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 

 presented by the Royal Geograpliical Society. 



Besides numerous other donations from the Geological 

 and Entomological Societies of London, the Franklin Insti- 

 tute of Phila,delphia, the Imperial Academy of Naturalists of 

 Moscow, the Royal Society of Copenhagen, Scarboro' Phil. 

 Soc, Le Museum d'Hist. Nat. de Paris, Roy. Soc. of Lite- 

 ratui'e, Roy. Asiatic Soc. of London, British Association, 

 Sci. Soc. of London, Dublin Nat. Hist. Soc, Roy. Coll. of 



