-tir/-,. An-soeiation for t'ic AAvance.ncnt of Scie 
Section D, 
ArpuAlip/ccl 
■Soutn Africa, 1905. 
"’aoof 
Index No. 
40 
Index Generum et Spederum Animalium, —Report of a Gommittee, 
consistmg of Dr. Henry Woodward {Chairmanf Dr. F. A. 
Bather {Secretarii),^ Dr. P. L. Sclater, Kev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 
Dr. W. F. Hoyle, and the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 
Satisfactory progress has been made by Mr. Davies Sherborn in the 
recording of literature from 1801 onwards. Among other works now 
indexed up to 1850 may be mentioned the ‘Annals and Magazine of 
Hatural History/ the ‘ Academia Cæsarea/ and the ‘ Neues Jahrbuch für 
Mineralogie/ Varions tracts dealing with the collation of difficnlt books 
have been issued, and a reprint of the descriptions of new species of birds 
drawn up by Pallas for ‘ Vroeg's Catalogue/ 1764, has been published by 
the Smithsonian Institution, under Mr. Sherborn^s care, from the unique 
copy in the Linnean Society’s Library. The search for rare books still 
continues, and any such acquisitions are made available for public use 
by transference to one or other of the accessible libraries. Special thanks 
are due to the Italian Government, the Universi ty of Padua, and Pro¬ 
fessor Dante Pantanelli, for enabling the Oommittee to examine the 
‘ Tavola alfabetica delle conchiglie adriatiche ^ of Stefano Andrea Renier 
(180f). Help of this nature, as well as valuable criticism, is continually 
* forthcoming from home and abroad, and the general interest taken in the 
published volume (1758-1800) is highly gratifying to Mr. Sherborn and 
satisfactory to this Committee, which, in this connection, desires to thank 
especially Mr. L. B. Prout and Mr. C. W. Richmond. 
The Committee desires to be reappointed, with the addition of Lord 
Walsingham, and trusts that the grant will be restored to the previous 
amount—namely, lOOZ. 
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