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chiefly incurred in adding new and important Zoological 
works to the series, in binding, in new book-cases, and in 
printing a Supplement to the Catalogue, which, together 
with the Catalogue itself, is now ready for delivery to 
any Fellow who may wish to possess a copy. 
The sum of £104 6s. was spent in increasing the beauti- 
ful series of water-colour drawings by Mr. Wolf, of the 
finest and rarest specimens in the Society’s Menagerie. 
This series, which was commenced in 1851, now amounts 
to upwards of 100 in number. Feeling that their interest, 
both as works of art, and as giving accurate outlines of 
the living form of many rare animals, renders it desirable 
that they should be more easily accessible than they are 
as at present placed in portfolios in the Society’s Library, 
the Council have resolved on fitting up the upper portion 
of the Old Museum Building as a gallery for their exhibi- 
tion during the summer months of the present year. 
They have little doubt that the merits of these drawings, 
when thus displayed, will be more fully appreciated by 
the Fellows, as well as by the public at large, and that 
their exhibition will attract many additional visitors to the 
Society’s Gardens. 
Besides the purchased additions, the Society’s Library 
has received since the last Anniversary Transactions and 
Proceedings from the following Institutions :— 
ENGLAND. 
The Royal Society, London. 
The Linnean Society, London. 
The Royal Geographical Society, London. 
The Geological Society, London. 
The Royal Institution of Great Britain. 
The Royal Horticultural Society, London. 
The Photographic Society, London. 
The Society of Arts, London. 
The Royal United Service Institution, London. 
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain. 
The Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
The Tyneside Naturalists’ Field-club. 
The Pharmaceutical Society. 
The Entomological Society, London. 
‘The Royal Society of Literature. 
The British Association for the Advancement of Science. 
