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REPOKT OF THE COUNCIL, 



The books, &c, presented to the Reading-room have been — 

 From the Vice-Secretary : — 



Sowerby's English Botany. Re-issue. Part I. Second Edition. 

 Patterson's Introduction to Zoology. Parts I. and II 12mo. 

 1846. 



Sur les Causes qui limitent les Especes Ve'getales du Cote du Nord, 

 en Europe et dans les regions analogues. Par M. Alph. de Can- 

 dolle. 8vo. 1847. 



Lee's Botany of the Malvern Hills. 12mo. 1843. 



Dillwyn's Fauna and Flora of Swansea. 8vo. 1848. 



Art de Construire et de Gouverner les Serres; par Neumann. 

 Deuxieme edition. 1846. 



Marshall's Index Ready-Reckoner. 12mo. 1848. 



Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany. Parts 

 I., IT., III., and IV. 8vo. 1849. 



Earp's Hand-book for Intending Emigrants to the Southern Settle- 

 ments of New Zealand. 12mo. 1849. 



Downing's Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gar- 

 dening. 8vo. 1849. Fourth edition. 



Somerville's Physical Geography. Vols. I. and II. 12mo. 1849. 



Thomasons Hints to Emigrants. 12mo. 1849. 



Hodgson's Lectures on the Australian Settlements. 12mo. 1849. 



Wilkinson's Working Man's Hand-book to South Australia. 

 12mo. 1849. 



Harris's Guide to Port Stephens, in New South Wales. 12mo. 

 1849. 



Baskerville's Affinities of Plants. 12mo. 1839. 



Lindley's Appendix to the first 23 volumes of Edwards's Botanical 

 Register. 8vo. 1839. 



And Thirteen Pamphlets. 

 From Mr. Francis Rauch : — 



Practical Observations on the Arrangement and Contrast of Co- 

 lours ; accompanied with coloured plates. Also 42 plans of 

 Geometrical Flower Gardens, and 12 miscellaneous drawings. 

 From Mr. William Dumbrill : — 



An Isometrical draw ing of the Great Conservatory at Chatsworth. 



The number of visitors to the Garden, exclusive of the days of 

 exhibition, has been 7782, being an increase of 858 over 1848-9, 

 and of 1458 over 1847-8. 



The distribution of plants, packets of seeds, and parcels of 

 cuttings from the Garden has been as follows : — 



1849-50. 



Plants. 



Seeds. 



Cuttings. 





5,996 



49,298 



1,642 



To Foreign Countries, Correspondents, &c. 



472 



554 



138 





86 



196 





Total 



6,554 



50,048 



1,780 



The only other topic to which the Council find it necessary 

 to allude is the Journal of the Society. This has continued 



