topics of general interest in the progress of the Society^s 

 affairs. The first of these reports was transmitted to the So- 

 ciety in the current month. 



III. LIBRARY. 



A List of Books contained in the Library of the Society 

 has been prepared for Press, and m ill be transmitted to the 

 Fellows when printed. 



In circulating this List, the object of the Council is not 

 only to inform the Society of the actual works in their pos- 

 session, but to enable those Members, Authors, and others 

 who are desirous of contributing to this important, although 

 hitherto neglected branch of the Society's collection, to be- 

 come acquainted with the desiderata, which, if supplied, 

 would render it a thoroughly efficient aid to the critical 

 study of Zoology. 



The principal Donations to the Library since the last 

 Anniversary consist of Transactions and Proceedings from 



The Royal Society of Sciences of Gottingen. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences of Munich. 



The Academy of Sciences of Paris. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences of Copenhagen. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences of BerUn. 



The Imperial Academy of Naturalists of Breslau. 



L'Institut Royal des Pays Bas. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences of Stockholm. 



The American Philosophical Society. 



The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



The Entomological Society of London. 



Memoires, Journals, Bulletins, Annals, and Reports have 

 also been received from 



The Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg. 



The Agricultural Society of Lyons. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences of Brussels. 



The Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



The Academy of Sciences of Lyons. 



The Entomological Society of France. 



The Museum of Natural History of Paris. 



The Imperial Academy of Naturalists of Moscow. 



