LINNEAJSr SOCIETY OF LONDOK. XI 



last autumn was of unprecedented bulk, and has been acknow- 

 ledged as comprising contributions of great scientific value. In- 

 cluding the extra part published in the summer, our year's Trans- 

 actions are illustrated with 43 plates, of which 23 are zoological 

 and 20 botanical ; and we have also increased the number of plates 

 introduced into our Journal. Our next quarto part, for which 

 several plates, chiefly zoological, are already in hand, will com- 

 plete our 25th volume ; and a general index to the whole, series is 

 in preparation. It is hoped also that in the course of the autumn 

 or winter two detached papers of great interest, illustrated by a 

 considerable number of plates, will be delivered to you as the first 

 two parts of the 26th volume — viz, Mr. Brady's Monograph of 

 Ostracoda, read at your last meeting, and a selection of the most 

 interesting botanical novelties collected in West TropicalAfrica by 

 Dr. Welwitsch, an account of which he has promised to lay before 

 you on an early day. 



Our Library has received considerable additions. The valuable 

 conchological works presented several years since by the late Mr. 

 Cuming, but which he had temporarily borrowed, are now defini- 

 tively lodged on our shelves. Several important works have been 

 presented, — among which I may specially mention the Zoology of 

 Beechey's Voyage, presented by Dr. J. E. Gray, and very nume- 

 rous Transactions and Journals of Natural-History Societies, as 

 well as separate works contributed by their authors. We have 

 also expended on the library a sum of about £65, which has enabled 

 us to increase the number of periodicals we subscribe to, and to 

 procure, besides several indispensable works of reference, nearly 

 all the works entered by our fellows in the book of Desiderata, 

 including Malherbe's splendid monograph of Picidse. 



The printing of our Library Catalogue has occupied rather 

 more time than we calculated upon, our Librarian having been 

 most scrupulous in his attention to the accuracy of its details. 

 The first part, however, containing under an alphabetical arrange- 

 ment all separate works and detached papers, as weU as complete 

 Journals published by private editors independently of scientific 

 bodies, received by the Society up to June 1864, is complete. As 

 the second part, comprising Transactions of Societies and Journals 

 in progress, will yet require some months to complete, the Council 

 have thought it would be more satisfactory to the Pellows to 

 publish the first part at once ; and it is now on sale at the So- 

 ciety's apartments. 



Owing to the heavy cost of our publications, we have not added 



