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known to American biologists that it is 

 useless for me to add anything in the way 

 of a detailed description of its internal 

 management, and yet this little account 

 would seem very incomplete without some 

 mention of Dr. Lo Bianco, whose knowl- 

 edge of the plants and animals in the Bay 

 of Naples, and whose skill in capturing 

 animals and preparing them for study and 

 for museum use is remarkable. 



At present two tables in the Station are 

 supported by American institutions (Co- 

 lumbia University and the Smithsonian 

 Institution), but these are inadequate to 

 meet the demands of American students 

 who wish to make use of the Station's privi- 

 leges. Thanks are due Dr. Dohrn, who 

 always makes room for deserving Ameri- 

 can students when it is possible for him to 

 do so. At one time during this year there 

 were seven Americans in the Station ; at 

 present there are four. I believe I voice 

 the sentiments of all Americans here at 

 present, and those who have been here in 

 the past, when I express the wish that 

 provisions be made by Americans or Ameri- 

 can institutions for American students 

 wishing to study here. 



S. E. Meek. 



Naples. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



The sixty-eighth Anniversary Meeting 

 of this Society was held on April 29th. 

 After some preliminary business the Report 

 of the Council on the proceedings of the 

 Society during the past year was read by 

 Mr. P. L. Sclater, F. R. S., the Secretary. 

 It stated that the number of Fellows on the 

 1st of January, 1897, was 3,098, showing a 

 net increase of 71 members during the year 

 1896. The number of new Fellows that 

 joined the Society in 1896 was 207, which 

 was the largest number of elections that- 

 had taken place in any year since 1877. 



The total receipts of the Society for 



1896 had amounted to £27,081 which was- 

 £123 more than the very successful 

 year, 1895. The ordinary expenditure had 

 amounted to £23,788 which was an 

 increase of £327 over that of the year 

 1895. Besides this a sum of £2617 

 had been paid and charged to extraordi- 

 nary expenditure, of which amount £2600 

 had been paid on account of the construc- 

 tion of the new house for ostriches and 

 cranes. A further sum of £1000 had also- 

 been transferred to the Deposit Account,, 

 leaving a balance of £1066 to be car- 

 ried forward for the benefit of the pres- 

 ent year. 



The usual scientific meetings had been 

 held during the year 1896, and a large num- 

 ber of valuable communications had been re- 

 ceived upon every branch of zoology. These 

 had been published in the annual volume 

 of 'Proceedings,' which contained 1,110 

 pages illustrated by 52 plates. Besides this, 

 parts 1 and 2 of the 14th volume of the 

 Society's quarto ' Transactions ' had been 

 published in 1896. A new edition of the List 

 of Animals, containing a list of all the speci- 

 mens of the vertebrated animals that had 

 been received by the Society during the 

 past twelve years, had been published and 

 issued to the subscribers to the publications 

 in November last. The 32d volume of the 

 ' Zoological Record ' (containing a summary 

 of work done by zoologists all over the 

 world in 1895), edited by Dr. David Sharp, 

 F.R.S., had been published and issued ta 

 the subscribers in December last. 



The library, containing upwards of 20,000' 

 volumes, had been maintained in good order 

 throughout the year, and had been much 

 resorted to by working naturalists. A large 

 number of accessions, both by gift and 

 purchase, had been incorporated. 



The number of visitors to the Gardena 

 in 1896 was 665,004, being 322 less than 

 the corresponding number in 1895. This 

 slight decrease was easily accounted for by 



