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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
The following are the more imj)ortant works presented during the 
year : 
Transactions of the Linnean Society. 
Some Eemarkable Forms of Animal Life from tlie Great Deeps off the Norwegian 
Coast, part 2nd, by George Sars, from the Antlior. 
The Eoyal Society’s Catalogue of Scientific Papers, vol. vii., from the Eoyal 
Society. 
Popular Science Eeview, from the Publislier. 
Several pamphlets and papers, as well as the journals of other Societies in 
exchange for our own. 
Books Purchased. 
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. 
Annals of Natural History. 
Proceedings of the Eoyal Society. 
Mycograplua leones Fungornm. Parts 4 and 5. 
Sachs’ Text-Book of Botany. 
Proceedings of the Eoyal Society. 20 vols. 
SphagnacesB Britannicm Exsiccatm. By Braithwaite. 
Apparatus, Slides, &c.. Presented, 
A Binocular Eye-piece, from Mr. Ahrens. 
Fourteen Stained Preparations, from Dr. C. Johnstone, of Baltimore. 
Six ditto of Double-stained Vegetables, from W. II. Walmsley, Esq. 
150 Slides (various), from the Eev. E. H. Nesbitt Browne. 
An improved Moller’s Diatomaceeu Probe-Platte, presented by Adolf Schulze, 
Esq. 
Apparatus Purchased. 
A i Immersion and Dry Object-glass. By Messrs. Powell and Lealaud. 
Eleven Fellows have been elected during the past year. 
Four Fellows have deceased during the same period, viz. : 
*James Scott Bowerbank, LL.D., F.E.S., &c., elected January 29, 
1840 ; died March 9, 1877. 
James Lemoine Denman, elected May 13, 1863 ; died December, 
1877. 
Henry Lawson, M.D., elected October 14, 1868 ; died October 4, 
1877. 
William Jackson Kideout, elected January 15, 1851 ; died (?). 
