the attention which they have bestowed on the production 

 of the Journal of the Society, and in the general business 

 of the Scientific Meetings. The whole number of Papers 

 which have been read before the Society, and are printed 

 either in extenso or in abstract in the twenty-eight volumes 

 of the " Proceedings," now amounts to 1606 ; and the last 

 eleven volumes are illustrated by 347 Plates^ representing a 

 series of new species which no other jpurna^ Ix^^ exceeded. 



III. LIBRARY. 



The principal Donations to the Library since the last 

 Anniversary consist of Transactions and Proceedings from 

 the following Institutions : — 



The Royal Society of London. 



The Linnean Society of London. 



The Royal Geographical Society of London. 



The University College, London. 



The Entomological Society of London. 



The Royal Society of Literature. 



The Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. 



The Portsmouth and Portsea Literary and Philosophical 



Society. 

 The Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. 

 The Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. 

 The Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club. 

 The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 

 The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.. 

 The Natural History Society of Paris. 

 The Academy of Sciences of Paris. 

 The Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna. 

 The Royal Academy of Arts of Berlin. 

 The University of Basle. 

 The Society of Arts and Sciences of Batavia. 

 The Imperial Academy of Naturalists of Breslau, 

 The Royal Academy of Sciences of Amsterdam. 

 The Royal Academy of Sciences of Gottingen. 

 The Royal Academy of Sciences of Stockholm. 

 The Royal Academy of Sciences of Munich. 

 The Imperial Academy of Copenhagen. 

 The Society of Natural Sciences of Zurich. 

 The Senckenbergian Society. 



