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bought and partly received as donations, will show at a glance how the 
project stands at present. 
Sowerby's English Botany, new issue. Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4. 
Quarterly Journal of Science, from the commencement. 
Intellectual Observer. Vols. 1 to 6. 
Geological Magazine. Vol. 1. 
British Land and Fresh Water Mollusca. Lovell Reeve. 
Foramenifera, from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. Jones and 
Parker. 
On a new genus of Echinoderm, and observations on the genus 
Palaechinus. Major Austin. 
Food, Use, and Beauty of British Birds. C. O. Groom-Napier. 
Memoirs and Papers of Hugh E. Strickland. 
Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and other Commissioners, on Animal 
Magnetism. London, 1785. 
Hortus Cantabridgiensis. James Down. 1815. 
The Microscope made easy. Baker. London, 1769. 
Botanical arrangement of all the Vegetables, naturally growing in 
Britain. Withering. 1776. 
Brewster's Edinburgh Journal. Vols. 1, 2, 3. 
The fund for the library depending entirely on the voluntary subscrip- 
tions of an inconsiderable number of the members of the Society, is at 
present but small, totally inadequate indeed for the desired purpose. The 
Council cannot omit this opportunity of recommending earnestly, a more 
efficient support from the whole body of members ; and beg to remind the 
Society, that the use of the library is not confined to subscribing members 
only, but is offered to all. 
VI. Finance. 
From the statement of Receipt and Expenditure, which will be read by 
your Treasurer, it will be seen that the balance, as compared with that of 
last year, is not so large as formerly, but still, however, on the right side of 
the balance sheet. The arrears of subscriptions, though less than in past 
years, shew to the Society's disadvantage, notwithstanding the employment 
of a paid collector. Amongst the items of expenditure placed in the 
present account, are 19 guineas paid in part as a donation of money to 
the Institution, and in part for a collection of fossils presented to the 
Museum. Also an extra expenditure of nearly £9 for reprinting 
abstracts of papers and proceedings of the Society, since January of the 
present year. A further item of expenditure appears for lamps, purchased 
