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expressing the pleasure they derived from the excellent state of pre- 

 servation of the whole Museum, and from the unwearid zeal and dis- 

 criminating-skill displayed by the Curator in arranging the collections. 



Library. 



The Society has received many valuable additions to the Library. 

 About 100 volumes and pamphlets have been presented during the 

 year, including the Transactions and Journals of the Royal Society, 

 tlie Astronomical Society, Zoological Society, British Association, 

 Royal Asiatic Society, Cambridge Philosophical Society, Linnsean 

 Society, Royal Geographical Society, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 

 Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Berlin Academy, American Philoso- 

 phical Society, Geological Society of France, Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, Natural History Society of Geneva, and of 

 the Royal Society of Lisbon. 



The Board of Ordnance continues to present to the Society the 

 Maps of the English Trigonometrical Survey, and of the Townland 

 Survey of Ireland. The Committee deem it necessary to call attention 

 to the presentation of the Charts of the Depot-Gendral de la Marine 

 of Paris, in return for a set of the Society's Transactions presented 

 by the Council. 



EDWD. TURNER. 

 J. FORBES ROYLE. 



Comparative Statement of the Number of the Society at the close of 

 the years lSZ4—\?,'i5. 



Fellows. 31st Dec. 1834. 31st Dec. 1835. 



Having compounded 84< 90 



Contributing 229 232 



Non-residents 328 348 



641 670 



Honorary 44 44. 



Foreign Members 57 57 



Personages of Royal Blood .... 3 3 



745 774 



The following Persons were elected Fellows of this Society during the 



Year 1835. 



January 7th. — James Pulleine, Esq. M.A. Cambridge, of King's 

 Bench Walk, Temple ; and Thomas Starkie Thomson, of Prim- 

 rose, near Clitheroe. 



January 2 1st.— Edward William Brayley, Esq, Librarian to the Lon- 

 don Institution. 



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