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INSTITUTED 1844. 
‘OFFICERS. 
PRESIDENT.—PROFESSOR BELL, F.R.S. 
COUNCIL. 
Pnorzsson D. T. Anstep, M.A., F.R.S. R. K. Grevitiz, LL.D., F.R.S.E., H.M.C.P.S. 
CnanLss C. Basineton, Esq., M.A., F.L.S. Sir W. Jarpine, Bart., F.R:.S.E., L.S. 
Pnorzsson Barroum, M.D., F.L.S. Rey. Lrowamp Jenyns, M.A., F.L.S. 
Rosert Barr, Esq., M.R.L.A., Sec. R.Z.S.I. 
Rev. M. J. BEnkELEY, M.A., F.L.S. 
GronaE Busk, Esq., F.R.C.S. 
J. DarnyMPLE, Esq., F.R.C.S. 
Proressor DausENY, M.D., F.R.S. 
Proressor Owen, F.R.S. 
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THE LAWS OF THE RAY SOCIETY. 
I. That this Society shall be called *'Tzrz Ray Socrery ;" and that its objeet shall be the promotion of Natural History, by the printing of original works in Zoology 
and Botany, of new editions of works of established merit, of rare tracts and MSS., and of translations and reprints of foreign works which are generally inaccessible from 
language in which they are written, or from the manner in which they have been published, 
-B.—It will be a direction to the Council that they shall not print anything that appears to them suitable to the Transactions of established societies, nor any work 
which a respectable publisher shall undertake to publish without charge to the author. 
II. Every subseriber of one guinea annually to be considered a Member of the Society, and to be entitled to one eopy of every book published by the Society during 
the year to which his subscription relates; and no Member shall incur any liability beyond the annual subscription. 
. „III. That the annual subscriptions shall be paid in advance, and considered to be due on the 2nd day of February in each year ; and that such Members as do not 
Signify their intention to withdraw from the Society before the 2nd day of June, shall be considered to continue Members, and be liable for the year’s subscription. 
. The management of the Society shall be vested in a Council of Twenty-one Members, of whom one-third shall have their stated residences in London, and all of 
whom shall be eligible for re-election at the annual meeting. 
V. That the Council hereafter shall be elected by the Members, at a meeting to be held at the time and place of the meeting of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science, and that no Member whose subscription is in arrear be allowed to vote at any meetings. 
VI. That the Council shall elect two Secretaries (one of whom shall be residentin London) and a Treasurer, who shall ez officio be Members of the Council. 
VII. The annual subseriptions shall be deposited in a chartered bank, in the name of the Treasurer and two Members of the Council. 
VIII. The accounts of the receipts aud expenditure of the Society shall be examined annually by two Auditors appointed by the Council ; the Auditors to be 
Members of the Society, who are not Members of the Couneil, and their stat t circulated among the subseril : 
IX. That the number of copies of the Society's publications shall, unless otherwise directed by the Couneil, be limited to the number of actual Subseribers who shall 
have been enrolled, and paid their subscriptions, on or before the 2nd day of June. 
X. That the editors of works published by the Society be entitled to a number of copies, not exceeding 20, as may be decided by the Couneil. 
* The following works have been published, and may be obtained by Subscribers :— 
FOR THE FIRST YEAR. 
I. REPORTS on THE Progress OF ZOOLOGY anv Bovany, consisting of — 
1. Observations on the State of Zoology in Europe, by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and Musignano, 
2. Report on the Progress of Vegetable Physiology, by Dr. H. F. Link, translated by E. Lankester, M.D., F.R.S. 
3. Report on the Progress of Zoology, for the year 1842, by Wagner and others, t; lated b: . Macdonald, B.A. 
È . MEMORIALS OF Jonn Rar; consisting of the Life of John Ray, by Derham ; the Biographical Notice of Ray, by Baron Cuvier and M. Dupetit Thouars, in the 
Biographie Universelle ; Life of Ray, by Sir J. E. Smith ; the Itineraries of Ray, with Notes by Messrs. Babington and Yarrell; edited by E. Laukester, M.D.,:F.R.S. 
II. Part I.—A Monograph, with Coloured Drawings of every Species of the British Nubibranchiate Mollusca, by Messrs. Alder and Hancock. 
d, Esq. 
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M.A., F.G.S. 
d by Hugh E. Strickl 
FOR THE SECOND YEAR. 
I. STEENSTRUP ON THE ALTERNATION OF GENERATIONS, translated from the German, by George Busk, F.R.C.S. 
II. A MowocnapeH or tae British NUDIBRANCHIATE Mottusca, with 13 coloured Illustrations in lithotint, by Messrs. Alder and Hancock. Part II. 
III. REPORTS AND PAPERS ON Borany, consisting of Translations from the German. 
1, Zucearini on the Morphology of the Coniferze, with 5 plates. 
2. Grisebach Reports on the Progress of Geographical Botany for 1842, 1843, 1844. 
; Nageli Memoir on the Nuclei, Formation, and Growth of Vegetable Cells. 
4. Link,—Report on the Progress of Vegetable Physiology for 1842-3. 
The following works are either in the press, or in a state of great forwardness :— 
H l. Bibliotheca Zoologica et Palæontologica, being a complete bibliography of works on Zoology and Palæontology, by Professor Agassiz, of Neufchatel, edited bY 
‘Ugh E. Strickland, jun. 
2. A continuation of the work of Messrs, Alder and Hancock on the Nudibranchiate Mollusca. Part TII. is now in the press. 
«B i isation of Trilobites, with 6 plates, translated from the German and edited by Professors Bell and Edward Forbes. 
4. Reports on the Progress of Zoology, translated from the German by George Busk, F.R.C.S. 
5. Linnzeus’s "Travels, translated from the Swedish by W. Lewin. 
6. Ray's Letters, comprising those published in the Philosophical Letters, and those in ‘manuscript in the library of the British Museum. 
7. Azava’s Natural History of Paraguay, translated from the Spanish. 4 
8. Meyen’s Geography of Plants. This work is in the press, and will be speedily issued. 
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