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Netherlands : — Eoyal Society. 



New Haven : — Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



Oxford : — Bodleian Library. 



Paris : — Imperial Library. 



: — Anthropological Society. 



: — Asiatic Society. 



: — Geographical Society. 



: — ^Ethnological Society. 



Pisa : — Tuscan Society of Natural Sciences. 



Stettin : — Entomological Society. 



Stuttgardt : — Natm-al History Society of Wiirtemberg. 



St. Petersburg : — Imperial Library. 



: — Imperial Academy of Sciences. 



Stockholm : — Eoyal Academy of Sciences. 

 Trieste :— Adriatic Society of Natural Science. 

 Turin : — Academy. 

 Vienna : — Imperial Geological Institute. 



■ : — Anthropological Society. 



: — Zoological and Botanical Society. 



: — Imperial Academy of Sciences. 



Washington : — Smithsonian Institution. 



: — Connnissioners of the Department of Agriculture. 



The Peesidekt said — He had now to ask the meeting to receive and 

 approve the Report of the Council for the past year. In doing so, it seemed 

 to him that there were just one or two points to which the attention of the 

 meeting might more particularly be called. In the first place, it was satis- 

 factory to see that the income of the Society had shewn a considerable 

 increase during the year. But they must at the same time not conceal the 

 painful fact that the amount of arrears due for unrealized subscriptions, &c., 

 was by much too large. It was not due to any want of exertion on the part 

 of the Treasurer of the Society. The accumulation has been one of long 

 growth, and though the amount was reduced last year, still it is far too great 

 to be satisfactory. 



Then as their funds had increased, a considerably larger siim than ori- 

 ginally contemplated was devoted to the improvement and extension of the 

 Library. This is, at present by far the most valuable portion of the Society's 

 property, and though rich in many ways, it still calls for much exertion to 

 extend and improve the collections. Progress has, he was thankful to say, 

 been made in this direction, although nothing really satisfactory could be 

 done until the Society had obtained more room to put out their books, and 

 admit of their classification and arrangement, in such a way as shall render 

 them accessible. 



