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The additions to the library for the session amounted to 

 705 volumes, 643 serials, and 62 separate works. The donations 

 (exclusive of the usual exchanges) were 61 volumes; 1 volume 

 was purchased, in addition to those regularly subscribed for. 



The Radcliffe Library, Oxford, and the Bureau of the 

 Annual International Tables of Constants and Numerical Data, 

 Liverpool, have been placed on the list of Institutions to which 

 the Society's publications are presented. 



By the purchase of volumes 2 to 10, inclusive, of The 

 Entomologist, the Society's set of this journal is now complete 

 from volume 2. 



The donations to the Society's Library during the session 

 include gifts of books by the American Philosophical Society, 

 Philadelphia, the Trustees of the British Museum (Natural 

 History), the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the Hertfordshire 

 Natural History Society, the Meteoiological Office, London, the 

 Patent Office Library, London, the Radcliffe Observatory, 

 Oxford, and Mr. Henry Sidebottom. 



The publication of the Society's Memoirs and Proceedings 

 has been continued under the supervision of the Editorial 

 Committee. 



The Society is indebted to Mrs. E. Tootal Broadhurst for 

 the gift of an engraving of Elihu Burritt. 



A number of original pen-and-ink diagrams, used by Dr. 

 John Dalton, were found, during the summer, in the Society's 

 rooms. A Report on these diagrams is in course of preparation 

 and will be communicated to one of the Meetings of the Society 

 at an early date. 



