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It may be mentioned that since the stock of the ola 

 volumes was acquired by the Society and the sixth volume 

 reprinted in order to render the series complete, 40 com- 

 plete sets of the first 22 volumes of the 'Zoological Record * 

 have been sold at the reduced price of j£5 10*. per set. 

 This, it is calculated, leaves a deficit of only about £190 

 on the total cost of the acquisition of the back stock and 

 the reprinting of the missing volume. Against this deficit 

 the Society hold a stock of 120 complete sets of the first 

 22 volumes still unsold, which, it is anticipated, will 

 ultimately produce nearly, if not quite, the sum required 

 to balance the account. 



3. Library. 



An important event in connection with the Society's 

 Library took place last year, the late Madame Cornely, 

 widow of the late Mous. J. M. Cornely, of Tours, an old 

 and valued Corresponding Member of the Society, having 

 bequeathed to the Society her husband's Zoological 

 Library, which was received from the Executors in October 

 last. 



The Cornely Library consists of about 840 volumes, of 

 which 256 are new to the Society's Library. Thus a 

 most valuable augmentation to the Society^s Library has 

 taken place, many of the works thus acquired being rare 

 and difficult to obtain under ordinary circumstances. 



Besides the Cornely Library many important additions 

 were made to the Society's bookshelves in 1888, among 

 which attention may be called to the following donations : — 



Armas. La Zoologia de Colon. 1888. Presented by the Author. 

 Atkinson. Notes on Indian Rhynchota. Nos. 3, 4. 1888. Pre- 

 sented by the Author. 

 Berce. Fauna Entomologique Fran^aise. Ldpidopteres. 6 vols. 



1867-78. Presented by W. C. Dale, Esq. 

 Blanford. The Fauna of British India. Mammalia. Part 1. 1888. 



Presented by the Author. 

 Cotes and Swinhoe. A Catalogue of the Moths of India. Parts ii., 



iii. 1887-88. Presented by the Trustees of the Indian Museum. 

 Cresson. Synopsis of the Families and Genera of the Hj'nienoptera 



of America, North of Mexico. 1887. Presented by the American 



Entomological Society. 

 Filippi. Animalia Vertebrata. Museum Mediolanense. Classis ii. 



Aves. 1847. Presented by Count T. Salvador!. 

 Furbringer. Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Systematik der 



Vogel. 2 vols. 1888. Presented by the Royal Zoological Society, 



Natura Artis Magistra, Amsterdam. 



