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Owen's Researches on the Osteology of the Anthropoid 

 Apes, and an essay by the late Mr. H. E. Strickland. 



On the same day the octavo Proceedings of the Society 

 M ill be brought up to the latest practicable date of publi- 

 cation, and the Illustrations which accompany them will 

 be found to be as exact and as carefully executed as the 

 skill of the various artists employed in their production 

 can effect. 



LIBRARY. 



The series of Drawings, of which the commencement was 

 announced in 1852, has been continued as occasions arose 

 for obtaining such studies as will gradually forma useful 

 record of the existence of rare and important species in 

 the Society's collection. 



Among the most interesting of those executed since the 

 last Anniversary is that of a young Walrus, deposited in 

 the Menagerie for two days before its death by the owners 

 of the ship Commerce, of Peterhead, in w hich vessel it had 

 been brought from Spitzbergen. 



A comparison between this drawing and the ordinary 

 representations of the Walrus will demonstrate satisfac- 

 torily how desirable the studies from life now exhibited to 

 the Meeting \^ill become as subjects for future reference. 



The principal Donations to the Library since the last 

 Anniversary consist of Transactions and Proceedinys from 



The Royal Society. 



The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



The Linnean Society of London. 



The Horticultural Society of London. 



The Royal Irish Academy. 



The Tyiieside Naturalists' Field Club. 



The Rnyal Society of Sciences, Gottingen. 



"^i'he Imperial Academy of Sciences, Copenhagen. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences, Munich. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin. 



The Imperial Academy of Sciences, Vienna. 



The Dutch Society of Sciences of Haarlem. 



The Imperial Academy of Naturalists of Breslau. 



The American Philosophical Society. 



