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Don. pbravhms ficport, 191546. 



I HAVE to report that during the session of 1915-1916 the 

 Society has received a number of additions to its Library, and 

 all sections have benefited in a more or less degree. The chief 

 accessions are : — 



1. Windle's " The Wessex of Thos. Hardy," presented 



by the Rev. W. H. Windle Cooper and Mr. E. 

 Cooper. 



2. Eleven papers contributed to the Transactions of the 



Royal and other Societies, written by, and pre- 

 sented by Dr. Dukinfield Scott and Mrs. Scott. 



3. Gregory's " British Violets " and Tansley's " Types 



of British Vegetation," presented by the 

 Botanical Section. 



4. " The Festival Book of Salisbury," 1916, presented 



by Mr. Heywood Sumner. 



5. Verrall's " British Diptera, " with additions by F. C. 



Adams, presented by Miss E. K. Pearce. 



6. " A Study of Splashes," by Professor A. M. Worth- 



irjgton, presented by Mr. R. A. de Paiva. 



7. Peary's " Voyage to the North Pole," presented 



anonymously. 



8. "The Country S^de," vols. 4, 5, 6, 7 ; " The Country 



Side Monthly," vols. 1,2, 3 ; " Science Gossip " 

 for 1865-1872; Proctor's "Nature Studies"; 

 Lydekkers " Cats, Civets and Mongooses " ; 

 Tristram's " Natural History of the Bible," 

 presented by Mr. J. Omer Cooper and Mr. W. 

 Omer Cooper, F.L.S. 



9. Belzung's " Physiologie Vegetab," presented by 



Miss, Rooper. 



10. " The American Journal of Geography " for two 



years; "American Bird Lore" for 1915 ; 

 " Report of the American Museum of Natural 

 History" for 1915; The American "Geogra- 

 phical Review," vol. 1., January-June, 1916, 

 presented by Mr. G. R. MacDougall. 



11. The "Journals of Botany" and of "Ecology," 



"Knowledge" and the publications of the 

 " Palaeontographical Society" are subscribed 

 for annually by the Society. 



A few other works and papers of minor importance have been 

 received, and assistance in binding has been given by members. 



