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The Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta. 
The Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 
The Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 
The Boston Society of Natural History, U.S.A. 
The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 
The Franklin Institute. 
Donations have also been received from the Council of 
the City of Manchester; The Secretary at War, Washing- 
ton, U.S.A.; The Surgeon-General, U.S. Army ; The 
Commissioner of Patents, Washington, U.S.; Professor 
Felipe Poey; Dr. F. H. Troschel, For. Mem.; Professor 
J. Van der Hoeven, For. Mem.; Professor Duméril, For. 
Mem.; Professor F. S. Holmes; Isaac Lea, Esq., LL.D., 
Corr. Mem.; Joseph Leidy, Esq., M.D., Corr. Mem.; A. 
Newton, Esq., F.Z.S.; A. Russell, Esq., M.P., F.Z.S.; 
Professor Baird; Professor F. 8. Holmes; Dr. Shortt, 
F.Z.S.; H. Freke, Esq.; Madame J. Power; J. Lubbock, 
jun., Esq., F.R.S.; J. Carson Brevoort; M. Pucheran ; 
Signor J. J. Bianconi; Dr. J. Aitken Meigs; Dr. F. 
Miller; The Secretary of State for India; Dr. Anton 
Fritsch; C. Collingwood, Esq.; the Editor of the ‘ Athe- 
neum’; the Editor of the ‘ Natural History Review,’ 
Dublin; the Editor of the ‘Literary Gazette’; the 
Editors of the ‘Atlantis’; the Editor of the ‘ London 
Review’; and the Editor of the ‘ Pharmaceutical Journal.’ 
IV. GARDEN ESTABLISHMENT. 
a. Works. 
The principal work undertaken by the Council since the 
last Anniversary has been the completion of the New An- 
TELOPE Housg, which now forms one of the most im- 
portant buildings in the Society’s Gardens, and, as is 
generally acknowledged, is one of the most useful as well 
as one of the mest ornamental additions that has been 
made to the Society’s grounds for many years. With the 
object which the Council had in view in erecting this 
building, the Society are already familiar from the pre- 
vious Annual Reports. The first section of the New Ante- 
lope House was completed and opened to the public in 
the summer of 1859. In the autumn of last year the 
Council thought that the state of the Society’s income was 
such as would fully justify them in proceeding with the 
