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  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Library 
  and 
  Cabinet 
  Committee 
  for 
  1852. 
  

  

  We 
  beg 
  to 
  report 
  that 
  the 
  collections 
  of 
  insects 
  and 
  the 
  books 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  have 
  

   sustained 
  no 
  injury 
  in 
  their 
  removal 
  from 
  Bond 
  Street, 
  and 
  that 
  they 
  have 
  been 
  pro- 
  

   perly 
  arranged 
  in 
  the 
  two 
  rooms 
  appropriated 
  to 
  them. 
  

  

  The 
  Curator 
  has 
  prepared 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  non-entomological 
  books, 
  which, 
  not 
  being 
  

   used 
  by 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  Members, 
  and 
  occupying 
  space 
  that 
  may 
  be 
  more 
  advanta- 
  

   geously 
  employed, 
  we 
  recommend 
  may 
  be 
  disposed 
  of 
  by 
  sale, 
  or 
  in 
  exchange 
  for 
  

   entomological 
  works. 
  

  

  It 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  deemed 
  advisable 
  to 
  expend 
  any 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  grant 
  for 
  binding 
  

   books, 
  until 
  the 
  completion 
  of 
  the 
  Catalogue 
  on 
  which 
  Mr, 
  Wilkinson 
  has 
  been 
  enga- 
  

   ged. 
  This 
  work 
  has 
  been 
  delayed 
  in 
  consequence 
  of 
  his 
  domestic 
  calamities, 
  but 
  it 
  

   will 
  soon 
  be 
  finished, 
  and 
  then 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  necessary 
  that 
  some 
  volumes 
  should 
  be 
  bound. 
  

  

  The 
  Committee 
  appointed 
  by 
  the 
  Council 
  to 
  consider 
  and 
  carry 
  out 
  the 
  best 
  me- 
  

   thod 
  of 
  arranging 
  the 
  exotic 
  insects 
  remaining 
  in 
  store-boxes, 
  have 
  employed 
  the 
  

   Curator 
  to 
  select 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  instance 
  the 
  duplicate 
  specimens 
  of 
  the 
  Coleopteia. 
  Con- 
  

   siderable 
  advance 
  is 
  made 
  in 
  this 
  work, 
  and 
  the 
  insects 
  are 
  recommended 
  to 
  be 
  offered 
  

   in 
  exchange 
  to 
  the 
  members. 
  Subsequently, 
  the 
  other 
  orders 
  will 
  be 
  proceeded 
  with 
  

   in 
  the 
  same 
  manner. 
  

  

  The 
  donations 
  of 
  British 
  insects 
  made 
  to 
  the 
  Society 
  during 
  the 
  year 
  have 
  been 
  

   placed 
  in 
  cabinets. 
  Many 
  duplicates 
  of 
  British 
  Lepidoptera 
  still 
  remain 
  for 
  distribu- 
  

   tion 
  among 
  the 
  members, 
  in 
  exchange 
  for 
  other 
  species, 
  in 
  accordance 
  with 
  our 
  

   recommendation 
  last 
  year. 
  

  

  (Signed) 
  

  

  J. 
  W. 
  DOUGLAS. 
  

   S. 
  J. 
  WILKINSON. 
  

   EDWARD 
  W. 
  JANSON. 
  

  

  