Report of the School of Mines, Ballarat; Part 1, Vol. 3, Pro- 

 ceedings of Xatural History Society of Glasgow ; Fifth Annual 

 Report of Croydon Microscopical Club; Annual Report of North 

 Staffordshire NaturaUsts' Field Club; Sixth Annual Keport of 

 Chester Natural History Society; Part 1, Vol. 3, Transactions 

 of Edinburgh Geological Society ; Proceedings of the Eastbourne 

 Natural History Society ; Annual Report of Lewes and East 

 Sussex Natural History Society. 



The Committee desire particularly to record their thanks in 

 acknowledging the continued liberality of the Government of the 

 United States of America in forwarding many very valuable 

 works on the Geography, Geology, and productions in Zoology 

 and Botany of several of the States and Territories. 



The following Books have been added by purchase during 

 the year, viz. :— The Aquarium, its Inhabitants, &c. (by J. E. 

 Taylor); Birds of Europe, 4 vols, (by C. R. Bree); Life of a 

 Scotch NaturaUst (by S. Smiles) f Myxomycetes of Great Britain 

 (by M. C. Cooke); British Aphides (by G. B. Buckton) ; Eay 

 Society Pub.; Vol. XVL, Part 4, Botany; and Vol. XHI, Part 7, 

 Zoology; Linnean Society; Wealden and Permian Reptilia (by 

 R.Owen); Fossil Brachiopoda (by T. Davidson) ; Carboniferous 

 Foraminifera (by H. B. Brady); British Fossil Ligoniaj (by J. 

 Lycett); Eocene Bivalves (by S. V. Wood); Carboniferous 

 Ganoid Fishes (by R. H. Traquair); Eocene MoUusca (by F. E. 

 Edwards and S. V. Wood); British Fossil Elephants (by A, L. 

 Adams); Mezozoic Reptilia (by R. Owen); Pal^ontographical 

 Society's Pub. 



