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to the Gorilla, and to a comparison of its structure with 
that of Man. 
A classified Catalogue of the Animals living in the 
Society’s Gardens has been drawn up by Mr. Louis Fraser, 
under the superintendence of the Secretary, and will 
shortly be issued—a large portion of it being already 
in type. It is believed that this will form a valuable re- 
cord of the stage to which the Society have now advanced 
in their object of exhibiting to the public a living series 
of the different forms of the Animal Kingdom as nearly 
perfect as it can be made, and at the same time be a useful 
guide to the Society’s numerous correspondents who are 
desirous of transmitting desiderata to the Menagerie. 
III. LIBRARY. 
The money spent on the Society’s Library during the 
past year has been nearly entirely devoted to completing the 
sets of the foreign scientific periodicals, many of which, as 
has been mentioned in the Report read at the last Anniver- 
sary, were found to be incomplete. The sum of about £87 
has been spent in binding ; and this branch of the Society’s 
establishment may now be considered, as far as it goes, to 
be in efficient condition. The Council trust that the state 
of the Society’s finances will shortly be such as to enable 
them to prepare and print a Supplement to the Catalogue 
of the Library which was printed some years ago. 
The principal Donations to the Library since the last 
Anniversary consist of Transactions and Proceedings from 
the following Institutions :— 
The Royal Society of London. 
The Linnean Society of London. 
The Royal Geographical Society of London. 
The Royal Horticultural Society of London. 
The Royal Society of Literature. 
The Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. 
The Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club. 
The Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Asso- 
ciation. 
The Royal Trish Academy, Dublin. 
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
The Boston Society of Natural History. 
