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the year 1877} ordered for publication in the 'Transactions/ 

 are in a very forward state. 



The Council again wish to call the particular attention 

 of the Members to the advantages offered to subscribers to 

 the Society's Publications. The Subscription price of the 

 Publications in the case of Fellows and Corresponding 

 Members of the Society is £l 1*. per annum, provided 

 such subscription be paid in advance, before the Anniver- 

 sary Meeting of the Society, held on the 29th of April in 

 each year. 



The Publications of the year consist of four parts of 

 ' Proceedings ' (in 8vo, Illustrated by upwards of 45 Plates, 

 mostly coloured) and one or more parts of 'Transactions ' 

 (in 4to, with from 5 to 15 Plates). The ordinary prices 

 at -which these volumes are sold to the public amounts 

 to five or six Pounds in each year. 



The Publications cannot be sent out by post, but are 

 delivered to Subscribers free of expense at any address 

 within the metropolitan districts. 



3. Library. 



The Library^ under the superintendence of Mr. F. H. 

 Waterhouse, the Society's Librarian, has been kept in 

 good working order during the past year. 



The sum of £.343 165. 5d. was devoted to the purchase 

 of new zoological works. 



The most Important additions to the Society's Library 

 since the last anniversary were the following : — 



A valuable donation of two folio and two quarto original 

 illustrated MS. volumes of the ' Birds of India.' By the late 

 Colonel S. R. Tickell. Presented by the Rev. E. A. Tickell. 



A collection of 125 sheets of duplicates of original 

 drawings of animals in the collection of the late John 

 Russell Reeves, Esq., F.R.S., F.Z.S. Presented by Mrs. 

 Reeves. 



A nearly complete set of the Bulletin de la Societe 

 Philomatique de Paris. Presented by Monsieur Alphonse 

 Milne-Edwards, F.M.Z.S. 



The following is a list of the periodicals received in 1877 

 from the various Societies and Institutions with whom 

 this Society Is in correspondence. 



