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lleport of the Library and Cabinet Committee, adopted by the Council 

 as their Report to the Anniversary Meeting, 18G0. 



During the past year a further portion of the sum realized by the sale of the 

 exotic insects has been invested in the purchase of standard entomological works 

 for our Library, which, together with our Collections, remain in good preservation, 

 with the exception of some injury which, we regret to state, has been inflicted on 

 one of our copies of Curtis' 'British Entomology' and two or three other works, 

 by the extraction of the title-pages (since restored), and in attempts made to 

 efface from them the Society's stamp, by the person who was last year employed 

 in drawing up a Catalogue of the Library, and who, we are grieved to say, 

 abstracted these and other books from our rooms. The injuries above mentioned 

 were committed for the purpose of rendering these books marketable ; we have, 

 however, the satisfaction of adding that they have been recovered without any 

 expense being entailed on the Society. 



We would direct attention to the present unsatisfactory slate of our Collections 

 of British Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera and other orders, and to the desirability 

 of having thetn thoroughly re-arranged in conformity with the nomenclature now 

 in use. About six years back several of our Members undertook the reformation 

 and arrangement of the Collection of British Lepidoptera ; specimens were solicited 

 and freely presented ; the old and worthless examples of the ancient collection 

 were rejected, and an excellent working collection was got together and arranged 

 in the course of a few months; and it appears to us that a similar reform might 

 as readily be achieved in respect to the other orders if a few of our Members 

 would earnestly and unitedly take the matter in hand. 



J. E. GRAY. 



W. WILSON SAUNDERS. 



FRANCIS P. PASCOE. 



F. SMITH. 



E, SHEPHERD. 



