The Smithsonian Institution of Washington. 



The Museum of Natural History of Paris. 



The Imperial Society of Natural Sciences of Cherbourg. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin. 



The Society of Natural Sciences of the Canton of Vaud. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium. 



The Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow. 



The Imperial Academy of Copenhagen. 



Donations have also been received from His Royal High- 

 ness the Prince Albert, K.G. ; H. L H. the Prince Charles 

 Lucien Bonaparte, For. Mem. ; M. Guerin-Meneville,Corr. 

 Mem. ; Dr. L. I. Fitzinger ; Dr. P. Bleeker ; Sig. I. I. 

 Bianconi; M. Hollard; M. F. J. Pictet; Professor L. 

 Agassiz, For. Mem. ; Prof. Budge of Bonn ; Dr. Ludwig 

 K. Schmarda ; Isaac Lea, LL.D., Corr. Mem. ; Colonel 

 Sir Proby T. Cautley, K.C.B., F.Z.S. ; Rowland Hill, Esq., 

 Secretary to the Post Office, F.Z.S. ; L. L. Dillwyn, Esq., 

 M.P., F.Z.S. ; Dr. Crisp, F.Z.S.; Philip Kiernan, Esq., 

 F.Z.S. ; Arthur Russell, Esq., F.Z.S.; R.J. Shuttleworth, 

 Esq., F.Z.S.; Samuel Dickson, M.D.; the Editor of the 

 Athenaeum Journal ; the Editor of the Literary Gazette ; 

 the Editor of the Zoologist ; the Editor of the Pharmaceu- 

 tical Journal ; the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine. 



IV. MUSEUM. 



Having been long impressed with the conviction that 

 the remarkable development of the Natural History De- 

 partment in the British Museum has for some years past 

 entirely superseded the necessity of maintaining a second 

 Zoological Museum in London, the Council has latterly 

 reduced the expenditure on the Society's Museum to its 

 conservation only, without any addition being made to the 

 imperfect series of species contained in it. 



Taking these circumstances into consideration, together 

 with the entire inadequacy of the Building at the Gardens 

 for a general collection, as well as the entire inexpediency 

 of incurring any further expenditure for an object which 

 is so effectually carried out in the National Collection, 

 the Council determined during the year which has past to 

 dispose of a portion of the contents of the Museum as 

 favourable opportunities occur of obtaining a fair value for 

 the specimens. 



