COUNCIL FOR 1867. 
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the whole constituting a portion of the results of Mr. J. Gwyn- 
Jefheys’ deep sea dredging off the Shetlands. 
The Entomological Curator has to report that the illus¬ 
trative series of British insects in the Gallery Cases of the 
British Zoological Eooin is nearly completed. In preparing 
this collection the Keeper of the Museum has been for the most 
part compelled to confine himself to such materials as were ready 
to his hand in the Society’s Cabinet, and among the miscella¬ 
neous accumulations in his own and the Cm’ator’s boxes. 
There are some groups still wanting to the Society’s collection; 
their absence at present causes gaps in the series, but it is hoped 
that these may be filled up during the coming summer. A 
considerable number of specimens have been added to the 
Cabinet-collection of British Lepidoptera, and some Beetles 
and other Insects from New Zealand, and Queensland, have 
been presented by Mr. E. West, of Auckland, N. Z., and 
Thomas Allis, Esq. 
To the collection of Comparative Anatomy no additions of 
importance were made during the past year, but the detached 
bones of Dinornis, presented some time since by Dr. Gibson, 
have been carefully cleaned and identified as far as possible 
with professor Owen’s species described in the Transactions of 
the Zoological Society. 
The additions to the Library although tolerably numerous, 
consist chiefiy of Pamphlets and of the ordinary serial works. 
An exception to this general statement is, however, presented by 
a considerable donation of its publications lately made by the 
Smithsonian Institution, U. S., in compliance with an appli¬ 
cation forwarded to Washington during the past summer. 
This includes many valuable works on North American 
Archceology and Natoal History. The third edition of Dr. 
Bruce’s account of the Eoman Wall has also been added to the 
Library. 
The Curators of the Observatory report that during the 
past year transits have been taken with sufficient frequency to 
enable the observers to keep the sidereal clock well regulated, 
and the error of the mean time clock denoted from day to day 
with but few omissions. On August 21a small party observed 
