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of which one consists of Indian plants^' and the other was 
collected in Germany. ^ 
To the donor of the latter the Society has been under 
numerous obligations; but the munificent present which 
he has this year made to the Library deserves particular 
notice; a present consisting of costly and useful books on 
various subjects of natural history and philosophy, amount- 
ino- to no less a number than two hundred volumes. The 
Council has also to acknowledge the honor of having 
received copies of several new works from their ingenious 
Authors, and of having been favored with the publications 
of many learned bodies, in particular with the Reports of 
the Literary and Philosophical Societies of Leeds and 
Newcastle; the Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Geological 
Society of London; the Transactions of the Society of Arts, 
of the Royal Asiatic Society, and the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal; and the Archaeologia of the Antiquarian Society 
of Newcastle. 
Lastly, to the cabinet of Antiquities, and to the collec¬ 
tion, if collection it can yet be called, of Philosophical 
Apparatus, some valuable additions have been made. Of 
the former the most remarkable are the various relics of 
ancient superstition, combined with ancient art and learning, 
which have been brought by the donor ^ from the cata¬ 
combs of Thebes in upper Egypt. The latter consist of an 
^Presentedby the Rev. J. Graham. ^ Presented by S. Stapylton, Esq. 
3 Col. H. Vernon. 
