83 
Keport of the Library Committee of the Microscopical 
Society. 
Since the last Report,, some valuable additions have been 
made to the Library, comprising sixteen volumes, and 143 
pamphlets presented, and sixteen volumes purchased, or 
exchanged for old numbers of the ^ Transactions ' or 
^ Journal/ The whole of the books in the Library have been 
examined ; fifty- six volumes have been bound ; the collection 
of pamphlets has been classified, and bound in five volumes ; 
and a catalogue of the whole has been prepared, printed, and 
presented with the ^ Journal ' to the members. 
" The Committee draw especial attention to the presenta- 
tion by W. S. Sullivan t, of the United States, of seven works 
on Mosses, &c.; and to seventy-seven numbers of the British 
Museum publications, by the Trustees. 
" The Committee trust that arrangements will be made at 
an early period to provide accommodation for the books in 
the rooms they at present occupy, so as to be more available 
to the members. 
^' In conclusion, they strongly recommend that the follow- 
ing works should be added to the Library as soon as possible : 
/Der Organismus der Infusionsthiere,^ by Dr. F. Stein; 
^Die Rieselschaligen Bacillarien,^ by F. T. Kiitzing ; ^ Mikro- 
geologie,^ by Dr. C. G. Ehrenberg. 
^^F. C. S. Roper. 
Geo. E. Blenkins. 
J. H. Roberts. 
R. J. Farrants.^' 
The President delivered the following address : 
The President's Address for 1860. 
By Dr. Lankester. 
Gentlemen, — It gives me great pleasure to address you at 
the close of my term of presidency, after you have heard 
the Reports of your Council and Treasurer, and which repre- 
sent our Society in a condition which commands our mutual 
congratulations. At the present we have a larger number of 
members than at any previous time in the history of our 
Society. However much we may regret the withdrawal of 
