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Report of Librarian : — 



Our exchange of publications with Kindred Societies in 

 Great Britain, United States of America, and the Continent 

 has continued and enlarged during the past year ; I had several 

 applications from, such Societies, who had not previously 

 exchanged with us, for copies of our Proceedings, all of v/hich 

 I have complied with, and to some of which I have sent complete 

 sets of our last four volumes, viz., Hull Public Library, North 

 Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club, New York Public 

 Library, Milwaukee Public Museum (Wis.), Field Columbian 

 Museum (Chicago), and Academy of Science (San Francisco), 

 all of which tender their grateful thanks to the Committee for 

 their kindness. We have received from the publishers of the 

 " Irish Naturalist" a full set — thirteen volumes — -of that pub- 

 lication, which have been bound, and are now in our book-case, 

 available for the use of the members. I have also got bound 

 the ten published volumes of the '' Ulster Journal of Archae- 

 ology " ; and three volumes of our own Proceedings I have also 

 had strongly biound, all of which make very handsome and, 

 I hope, useful additions to our Library. In conclusion, I 

 would strongly urge upon Members the necessity of their enter- 

 ing, in the book provided for that purpose, their own name, 

 and the name and number of any book taken away for home 

 reading; latterly some books have been applied for, which I 

 find have been taken away and not entered, and there are one 

 or two that have not been returned as yet, so I hope the mem- 

 bers will return them as soon as possible. 



(Signed) 



Geo. Donaldson, Librarian. 



Report of the Committee of Botanical Section : — 

 The Committee of the Botanical Section, in presenting 

 their report for the Session of 1904-05, beg to say that they are 

 satisfied that the Section maintains its normal healthful condi- 

 tion as a working department of the Club. With regard to 

 the outdoor work of the Summer of 1904 we have to say that 



