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appointed to investigate its condition. As a result it was 

 decided to have the collection carefully gone through and 

 placed in such a condition as to be of service to any member 

 who wished to consult it. Mr. Step most kindly undertook 

 to carry this out, and there has been handed to the Curator 

 the species in nineteen families of plants. 



The Library has been under the care of Mr. A. W. Dods, 

 the new Librarian, who reports that although only a fair 

 number of books have been borrowed, yet members have 

 made considerable use of the Library before and after the 

 meetings. 



The following is a list of the books, pamphlets, magazines, 

 etc., which have been added to the Library during the 

 year : 



Books. 



Bates' " History of British Sessile-eyed Crustacea," by 

 purchase. 



Hinck's " History of British Marine Polyzoa," by purchase. 



Hinck's " History of the British Hydroid Zoophytes," by 

 purchase. 



Cunningham's " Marketable Marine Fishes," by purchase. 



Flower and Lyddeker's " Mammalia," by purchase. 

 " Handbook of Instruction to Collectors," and " Guide to 

 the Coral Gallery at the British Museum," from the Trustees 

 of the Museum. 



Holland's " Moth Book of North America," from Mr. 



GiBB. 



Porritt's " List of Yorkshire Lepidoptera," from the 

 Author. 



Tutt's " British Lepidoptera," vol. iv, from Mr. Stanley 

 Edwards. 



Barrett's " British Lepidoptera," vol. ix, from the 

 Author. 



Step's " Wayside and Woodland Trees," from Mr. N. D. 

 Warne. 



" Miscellanea Entomologica," by Dr. Chapman, from the 

 Author, 



