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II. OFFICE, 11 Hanover Sevare. 
1. PuBLICATIONS. 
The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the So- 
ciety, both with and without Illustrations, have been regu- 
larly issued since the last Anniversary. The three parts 
for 1862 united together form a volume of nearly 400 
pages, illustrated by forty-six Plates, chiefly of new and 
interesting animals described for the first time at the 
Scientific Meetings of the Society held during the year. 
The first part of the Proceedings of the Scientific 
Meetings of the Society for the present year, containing 
the communications made to the meetings held during the 
months of January, February, and March, is likewise 
published. 
Of the * Transactions” three parts have been issued since 
the last Anniversary. 
The second section of Part VII. of Volume IV. 
contains papers by Dr. Sclater on the Struthious Birds 
living in the Society’s Menagerie, and by Mr. Gurney 
on Aguila desmursii, both illustrated by Mr. Wolf, to- 
gether with the Index and Title-page for Volume IV. 
The first part of Volume V. contains the seventh of 
Professor Owen’s series of essays on the QOsteology of 
the Anthropoid Apes, treating especially of the general 
characters of the skeleton of the Gorilla. The second part 
of the same volume contains Professor Owen’s Monograph 
on the Aye-aye. Both these important Memoirs are illus- 
trated by elaborate Plates prepared, under the author’s 
superintendence, by Mr. Erxleben. The expenses of the 
two latter parts of “ Transactions,” which amount, so far 
as they have been met within the year 1862, to £60 10s., 
being beyond the ordinary expenditure of the year, have 
been charged to extraordinary expenses, and form part of 
the sum of £121 9s. 5d. previously alluded to. 
In accordance with the recommendation of the Com- 
mittee of Publication, the Council have recently determined 
upon supplying to the Fellows and Foreign and Correspond- 
ing Members the whole of the publications (both “ Pro- 
ceedings ” and “ Transactions”) issued for each year, at 
a subscription price of £1 1s. per annum, provided such 
subscription be paid before the Anniversary Meeting of 
the year. At the same time they have thought it advi- 
sable, looking to the somewhat increased expense that the 
