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building and its adequate equipment having been mainly 

 due to his impulse in the centenary year of the Society. 

 The Librarian reports that during the past year upwards 

 of 150 volumes have been bound, and that several works 

 have been presented to the Society by authors or compilers, 

 in addition to the publications received from kindred 

 societies and public institutions throughout the world in 

 exchange for the Society's Memoirs and Proceedings. The 

 following books have been presented during the year : — 



H. H. Hayter. " Statistical Register of the Colony of Victoria, 1892." 

 The Radcliffe Trustees. " Radcliffe Catalogue of 6424 Stars for the 



Epoch 1890." 

 The Clarendon Press. "The Sacred Books of the East." Vols. 



XXXV., XXXVI., XLIX. Edited by F. Max Miiller. 

 Oliver Heaviside. "Electrical Papers." Vols. I. and II. 

 ,, " Electro-magnetic Theory." Vol. I. 



Scottish Microscopical Society. " Proceedings." 1893-4. 

 P. Francesco Denza. Cenni Necrologici. 1894. 

 Ministero di Agricoltura, Industria e Commercio. " Statistica 



delle Biblioteche." Rome. Vols. I. and II. 



The Council is sorry to report to the members that their 

 honorary librarian, Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., as will be 

 seen from the subjoined letter to the President, is unable, 

 from the pressure of other duties, to continue to discharge 

 the obligations of the office, and your Council would tender 

 to him the sincere thanks of the Society for his twenty-one 

 years' continuous service. 



Oakfield, Ashley Road, 



Altrincham, April 20th, i8g$. 



Dear Sir, 



At the last meeting of the Council of this Society, as 

 you are aware, I expressed a wish to be relieved from the Hon. 

 Librarianship at the end of the present session. I take, therefore, 

 the earliest opportunity of asking you kindly to intimate to the 

 members at the Annual Meeting, on April 30th, my desire not to 

 be again elected to the vacant post. I need hardly say how much 

 regret I shall feel in ceasing to occupy a position which I have now 



