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of the books placed on slips, in order that they may be 

 catalogued. The Library has been found to contain 16,700 

 books, and out of these 2,200 require binding. As far as 

 possible where sets of Transactions, &c., were incomplete, 

 the missing volumes have been obtained. Owing to the 

 rapid increase in the number of books annually received 

 by the Society, it will be necessary in the near future to 

 consider the provision of additional shelving accommoda- 

 tion. Beginning with January ist of this year a manuscript 

 catalogue for additions to the Library has been started, 

 with slips of all books in the Library placed in alphabetical 

 order and arranged in cases. By this means the books can 

 be easily found by anyone desiring to consult them. 

 Amongst the works presented to the Library by authors or 

 compilers during the year are : — 



The Clerk Maxwell Memorial Committee : The Scientific 

 Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Vols. I., II. ; Professor W. G. 

 Farlow : A Provisional Host-Index of the Fungi of the United 

 States, by W. G. Farlow and A. B. Seymour, Part 2 ; Professor 

 Arthur Cayley, F.R.S., &c. : Collected Mathematical Papers, Vol. 

 III. ; Professor M. Foster, F.R.S., &c. : Text-book of Physiology, 

 Part 3 ; The Canadian Government : Dictionary of the Language 

 of the Micmac Indians, by the Rev. Silas T. Rand, D.D., LL.D.; 

 H. Stopes : Indications of Retrogression in Pre-historic Civiliza- 

 tion in the Thames Valley ; The Bombay Government : Brief 

 Sketch of the Meteorology of the Bombay Presidency in 1889-90 ; 

 George Waring Ormerod : Annals of Teignbridge ; William Sharp : 

 Experiments with Drugs as a Question of Science ; J. F. La 

 Trobe Bateman : History and Description of the Manchester 

 Waterworks ; Marquis de Caligny : Academic Royale de Belgique, 

 Four Papers ; John Eliot, M.A. : On the Occasional Inversion of 

 the Temperature Relation between the Hills and Plains of 

 Northern India ; John Gardiner : Provisional List of the Plants of 

 the Bahama Islands ; The Indian Government ; Memorandum on 

 the Snowfall in the Mountain Districts of Northern India : Re- 

 port on the Meteorology of India in 1888; Lothar Meyer: 

 Grundziige der Theoretischen Chemie ; The Mulhouse Him 

 Memorial Committee ; Manifestation en I'honneur de G. A. Hirn ; 



