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Report of the Library and Cabinet Committee for 1858. 



We beg to report that all the typical specimens having been selected from 

 the Society's Collection of Exotic Insects, the remainder was disposed of at public 

 auction in April last, and the sum of £274 9s. was realized thereby above all necessary 

 expenses of sale. 



In pursuance of the Resolution previously agreed to by the Society, that the pro- 

 ceeds of such sale should be devoted to the purchase of Entomological works wanting 

 in our library, whenever favorable opportunities of doing so might occur, we have to 

 report that the sum of £i6 7s. was expended at the sale of the late Mr. Heysham's 

 library, in July last, and we have to congratulate the Society on the important addi- 

 tions of standard Entomological works made to our library on that occasion,— in parti- 

 cular we may mention a perfect original copy of Hiibner's ' European Lepidoplera.' 

 A further sum of £35 5s. has been expended in binding such of our books as most 

 required it, and in preparing a perfect manuscript Catalogue of the entire Library, 

 which we recommend to be printed forthwith, in as compact a form as possible for the 

 use of our members. 



The removal of the Exotic Insects from our Cabinets having left the Society most 

 ample accommodation for the collection of British Insects, we have to solicit our mem- 

 bers to assist us, not only with specimens of such species as we do not possess, but also 

 in the necessary task of re-arranging the collections. 



JOHN EDWARD GRAY. 

 W. WILSON SAUNDERS. 

 FRANCIS P. PASCOE. 

 FREDERICK SMITH. 

 EDWIN SHEPHERD. 



