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II. OFFICE, 11 Hanover Square. 
1. Screntiric MEETINGS. 
In accordance with the arrangements mentioned in the 
last Annual Report, the General Meetings of the Society 
for scientific business have been held since the commence- 
ment of the present Session, by the kind permission of the 
Linnean Society, in that Society’s rooms in Burlington 
House. They have been well attended, and, as will be 
seen on reference to the Proceedings and Transactions, a 
large number of valuable communications on every branch 
of Zoology have been brought before them. According 
to an arrangement introduced some time back, a short 
abstract of the communications made to the Meetings is 
prepared immediately after their close, and forwarded to 
the scientific journals and newspapers. Copies of these 
abstracts are also sent to each author of the communica- 
tions, and to all Fellows who are in the habit of attending 
the evening Meetings, or who express their wishes to 
receive them. 
2. ScrenTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the 
Society for the past year are complete; the third part 
completing the volume being now upon the table. As in 
former years, they have been issued both with and without 
the Illustrations, but commencing with the first part of 
the present year, it has been determined, in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Committee of Publication, to 
make a slight alteration in the mode of issue. The Illus- 
trations having become, in many cases, a necessary part 
of the Papers to which they are attached, it has been 
thought better to discontinue the edition without Illustra- 
tions altogether, and in lieu thereof to issue the cheaper 
series with uncoloured instead of coloured Plates. In 
carrying out this alteration, which appears to be in every 
respect desirable, it will be necessary to increase the price 
of the cheaper series of Proceedings, and to make it 4s. a 
Part instead of 2s. to the public, and 3s, instead of 1s. 6d. 
to the Fellows of the Society. At the same time, in order 
to meet the convenience of those persons who have pur- 
chased the New Series of the Society’s Proceedings since 
1860 without the Illustrations, volumes have been pre- 
