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Report of the Library and Cabinet Committee, received and adopted 

 by the Council, January, 1857. 



We beg to report the Collectious and Library remain in good preservation; 

 while the important additions made to the latter renders it necessary that 

 additional book-cases should be provided. 



The selection of the type specimens from the Collection of Exotic Insects, 

 with the view of preparing the remainder for sale, as recommended by this 

 Committee in their Report of last year, and approved by the Council and 

 Society at the Anniversary Meeting, has been proceeded with, and many of 

 them were drawn from the Collection ; great diflScully is, however, experienced 

 in this task, and we most earnestly solicit the assistance of those Members who 

 may be conversant with the various groups and orders, so as to insure the 

 preservation to the Society of all the types extant in the Collection, feeling 

 that, without such aid, it will be impossible to guarantee that all type specimens 

 have been selected. 



(Signed) 



W. WILSON SAUNDERS, President. 

 J. W. DOUGLAS. 

 FRANCIS P. PASCOE. 

 FREDERICK SMITH. 

 EDWIN SHEPHERD. 



