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Some of the most important additions to the Society's 

 Library, purchased since the last anniversary, are the fol- 

 lowing : — 



Anderson's Two Expeditions to Western Yunnan. 



Curtis's British Entomology. 



Dabry de Tliiersant. Pisciculture en Chine. 



Eimers. Die Medusen. 



Entomological Magazine. 



Houghton's British Freshwater Fishes. 



Hume and Marshall's Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Cejdon, 



Keyserling's Die Spinnen Amerikas. 



Kobelt's Fauna Molluscorum extramarinorum Japonias. 



PfeifFer's Monographia Pneumonopomorum. 



Pfeiffer's Monographia Heliceorum Tiventium. 



Reeves's Elements of Couchology. 



So-werhy's Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells. 



Sowerby's Conchological Manual. 



Swainson's Selection of the Birds of Brazil and Mexico. 



Wilson's LarA'Ee of the British Lepidoptera. 



Wollaston's Insecta Maderensia. 



Yarrell's History of British Birds (2nd edition). 



The following is a list of the periodicals received in 1879 

 from the various Societies and Institutions with w-hom 

 this Society is in correspondence. 



America. 



The Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



Bulletin, vol. v. nos. 8-16. 

 Annual Report, 1878-79. 



The Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Sciences, Halifax. 

 Proceedings and Transactions, vol. v. part 1. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 

 Proceedings, 1879. 



The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. 

 Proceedings, vol. xviii. no. 102. 



The Franklin Institute, Washington. 

 Journal, 1879. 



The United States National Museum, Washington. 



Bulletin, Nos. 7-12. 



