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successful ; but they trust that as the value of the work 

 becomes better known, a much greater increase in its 

 circulation will take place. 



3. Library 



ibrary has 1 

 e oast vear. : 

 zoologists 



The Library has been kept in good working order 

 dunng the past year, and has been much used by workin<^ 

 zoologists. ^ 



The new edition of the Library Catalogue, spoken of in 



the last Annua Report as ready for issue, was published 



ast summer. It has been long required, owing to the 



large additions recently made to the Library, and has been 



found to be most useful. 



The cost of its preparation and printing was £244 \s \ld 

 M^ich has been charged to the Extraordinary Expenditure 



During the year 1887 many important additions were 

 made to the Library, among which attention may be called 

 to the following donations : — 



^ VoT^^S- ^88'-°°% "^ 'h ^'-"'f '^ *^« ^British Museum. 

 Museuii. Presented by the Trustees of the British 



^T.tS; '""Zli'-r^ description physique de la Republique 

 Author ^'''^'^'^'''^'- ^''-^- 3. 188(3. Presented^ by the 



^"ijllTA^T''" ^'^' '^'''''^^''' It^li--- 1886. Presented 

 Cotes and Swinhoe. A Catalogue of the Moths of India Part i 



Cunfe" '^tTT'' \^ *'.^ ^""^^^^ "" *^<^ Indian Muse^^ '' 



l^unningham The Lumbar Cm-ve in Man and the Anes 1888 



Presented by the Eoyal Irish Academy. ^^^ Apes. 1886. 



iTpTbJX^llf'^'^'^''''^^^^^^ 1887. Presented 



^°(iTa?ef r?8:."^'C^' -<l,Fre^'^-f ter Mollusca of India. Part vi. 

 l^iates.J 18^/ . Presented by the Author. 



t:^J'S^^t;!'''''''^^'^^^^^^<^^- ''''■ P— ted by 



Journal of Comparative Medicine and Sur-ery Vol yiii A^n A 

 188/. Presented by the Editors. ''"'^^"y- ^ °^- ™i- ^^o- '^^ 



Esq. ^"^'^tifi'^ L^'^tures. 1879. Presented by W. C. Dale, 



"^'Sm PartT lis?' Jo-iJ Ma-naalia in the British 

 BriSh Museum ^^ ^''''''''^ ^^ '^' 'l^™«tees of the 



