No. I of " The Field Club," from the Editor. 



"The Garner" for 1890, from Mr. BiLLUPS. 



" Travels on the Amazon " (A. Russell Wallace), " British 

 Reptiles" (Hopley), from Mr. E. Step. 



"The Entomologist's Annual" for 1870, "Larvae and 

 Collecting" (Seymour St. John), from Mr. R. Adkin, 



" Hymenoptera of Colorado " (Cockerell), from Mr. John 

 T. Carrington. 



Odd numbers of the "•'Nautilus," No. 9 of the "Canadian 

 Entomologist" and "Hymenoptera of Colorado," from Mr. 

 T. D. A. Cockerell. 



"Larvse and Collecting" (Seymour St. John), from Mr. 

 Helps. 



" The Insect Hunters " (Newman), from Mr. RiCE. 



The " Pyralidina," from Mr. J. H. LEECH. 



"The Entomologist's Annual" for 1873, from Mr. SOUTH. 



" Report of the West Kent Natural History Society," from 

 the Society. 



" Report of the Reading Literary and Scientific Society," 

 from the SOCIETY. 



"Science Gossip" for 1890, "The Naked Eyed Medusae" 

 (Forbes), " Colours of Animals " (Poulton), " European 

 Butterflies" (Lang), " Expressions of the Emotions " (Darwin)^ 

 "Earthworms" (Darwin), — by PURCHASE. 



The Library is still under the able care of Mr. RiCE, who 

 has just completed a new Catologue of the books, which was 

 issued with the Proceedings for 1888-9. 



The Society's thanks are due to Mr. Alexr. Gibb for the 

 gift of a sixty-drawer Cabinet. This handsome present was 

 conditional on the Society paying the charges that would be 

 incurred in having the Cabinet brought from Canada ; this 

 the Council readily undertook to do and the charges amounted 

 to £^ i6s. 7d. 



The Cabinet is now in the Society's rooms, and the mem- 

 bers will have ample opportunities of enlarging the collections ; 

 Mr. West, the Curator, has already commenced to rearrange 



