valuable additions to the useful agency of the Society, as 

 affording opportunities of study to the Naturalist, which 

 are entirely beyond the private means of all but the richest 

 Amateurs. 



Donations to the Library. 



The principal Donations to the Library since the last 

 Anniversary have been received from the following learned 

 bodies, viz. : — 



Transactions and Proceedings fi-om the Institute of 

 France, the Royal Academy of Sciences of BerUn, the 

 Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, the Royal Academy 

 of Sciences of Stockholm, the Institut Royal des Pays Bas, 

 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Ameri- 

 can Philosophical Society, the Natural History Society of 

 Geneva, the Royal Irish Academy, the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh, and the Ashmolean Society. 



Memoires, Journals, Bulletins, Annals and Reports have 

 also been received from the Royal Academy of Sciences 

 of Munich, the Royal Academy of Sciences of Brussels, 

 the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, the Im- 

 perial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburgh, the Natural 

 History Society of Lyons, the Society of Natural Sciences 

 of the Canton of Vaud, the Society of Natural Sciences of 

 Neufchatel, the Natural History Society of the Department 

 of the Moselle, the Dutch Society of Sciences at Haarlem, 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the 

 Franklin Institute, the Boston Society of Natural History, 

 the Asiatic Societies of Great Britain, Calcutta, Bengal 

 and Bombay, the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of 

 the Mauritius, the Lyceum of New York, the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society of London, the Horticultural Society of 

 London, the Royal Agricultural Society of England, the 

 Geological Society of London, the Ethnological Society, 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, the 

 Geological Society of Dublin, the Dublin University Mu- 

 seum, and the Tyneside Naturalists* Club. 



