270 EEPORT OP THE COMMITTEE. 



a recent meeting, will be submitted to you. The modifications 

 which the changes of the last thirty years have rendered neces- 

 sary in the mode of conducting the Society's business have had 

 no corresponding amendments in the rules, and the result has 

 been that for some time past the Committee has been compelled 

 to act from precedent rather than from book. If the proposed 

 amendments should meet with approval from the Society, it will 

 be the duty of the in-coming Committee to take the necessary 

 steps for insuring their legality. 



A list of recent donations to the Museum and Library is ap- 

 pended to this report. It is very similar both in point of the 

 number and value of the contributions to the lists of past years, 

 and does not seem to embrace anything worthy of special mention. 



The additions to the Museum by purchase have been few and 

 unimportant, and except a set of glass models of the Actiniae of 

 German manufacture, affording a means of representing a class 

 of animals hitherto unrepresented in our Museum, there is no- 

 thing to which the attention of the members need be directed. 



Tour Committee believe that though there are but few striking 

 events in the history of the Society since their last report, that it 

 has been steadily and quietly progressing, and that it has fulfilled 

 to the utmost, with the means at its command, the offices con- 

 templated by the founders thirty-seven years ago. 



