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requesting that the Institution would correspond with it, which 

 proposal the Council respectfully acknowledged, and ordered, 

 ♦hat Notices received respecting that Science, should he trans- 

 mitted to the Zoological Society. 



A similar communication in respect to the Zoological Society 

 of France, has been received and agreed to. 



6. As TO THE Acquisitions of the Association : 



It is well known, that the most attractive and valuable por- 

 tion of tlie stock of the specimens in our Museum, consists of 

 the private collections of three Members of the Institution, who 

 thus render their private acquisitions a public benefit. But as 

 we are not entitled to expect that this advantage should be 

 other than temporarj', the Council has been on tlic watch for 

 opportunities of increasing tlie specimens constituting the pro- 

 perty of the Association. There remains a considerable num- 

 ber of the birds procured during- the preceding year, out of 

 which the Council has been in the practice of withdrawing 

 specimens to be set up for exhibition, according as the state of 

 the funds would admit of it. To this reserved stock a con- 

 siderable addition was made by the purchase of a collection 

 consisting of 212 specimens, for the sum of £ 45. Of this col- 

 lection, however, 188 wore transferred to Mr. Vekreaux, or 

 the condition that he should stuff and set up 276 skins of cor- 

 responding sizes, out of those possessed by the Institution. 

 This bargain is almost completed, and we may therefore reckon 

 that an addition to that amount has been made to the contents 

 of our cases. 



The Donations of Individuals have nobly seconded the en- 

 deavours of the Council, among which there is most worthy of 

 remark, a collection of 24 specimens of birds from the Hi- 

 malaya 3Iountains, containing several of the rarer and more 

 splendid of the species adorning that interesting region ; pre- 

 sented by Lady D'Ovly, through Major Cloete. These do- 

 nations have occurred in the following order: 



Books. — A work entitled A Direction to the English Traveller, 

 of date 1643, from Mr. F. S. Watermever. — A Dissertation, 

 De Afrorum Veneno Sagittario, from the author G. Krebbs. — 

 The Journal of the Missionary Wolff in Central Asia, from 

 the Hon'ble Lieut. -Col. Wade, President. 



From the Zoological Society, a scries of the Monthly Notices 

 of their transactions. 



Miscellaneous Articles. — A set of the Warlike Weapons of 

 the Kholes, a mountain tribe in the centre of India ; from 

 Capt. Hawkins, of the Bengal Army. 



Specimens of French Assignats, by Mr. Marquard. 



Two old Nctherland Dollars, from Mr. Hill, of the Madras 

 Army. 



