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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
New York State Library. 65th and 66th Annual Reports, for 1882 and 1883. 
8vo. New York, 1883-84. 
New York (State of) Museum of Natural History. Annual Reports. 
Nos. 33-37. 8vo. New York, 1881-84. 
Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club. Journal. 
Nos. 21-23. 8vo. Northampton, 1885. 
Rugby School Natural History Society. Report for 1884. 8vo. Rugby, 
1885. 
Science Gossip. Yol. xxi. 8vo. London, 1885. 
Science Monthly. Vol. ii, No. 14. 8vo. London, 1884. 
Scottish Naturalist. New Series. Yol. i, Nos. 7-10. 8vo. Perth, 1885. 
Somersetshire N atural History and Archaeological Society. Proceedings. 
New Series. Yol. x. 8vo. Taunton, 1885. 
United States Geological Survey. Reports. Yol. iii. The Yertebrata of 
the Cretaceous Formations of the West. Rook I. By E. D. Cope. 4to. 
Washington, 1883. 
-. -. Yol. viii. Contributions to the Fossil Flora of the Western 
Territories. Part iii. The Cretaceous and Tertiary Floras. By L. 
Lesquereux. lb. 1883. 
-. Third Annual Report, 1881-82. By J. W. Powell. Ib. 1883. 
■-. Bulletin, Nos. 2-6. 8vo. Washington, 1883-84. 
-. Monographs. Yol. iii. Geology of the Comstock Lode of the Western 
District. By J. F. Becker. 4to. With Atlas. Folio. Washington, 1882. 
-. -. Yol. iv. Comstock Mining and Miners. By E. Lord. 4to. 
Ib. 1884. 
-. -. Yol. v. The Copper-bearing Rocks of Lake Superior. By 
R. D. Irving. Ib. 1883. 
-. -. Vol. vi. Contributions to the Knowledge of the Older Mesozoic 
Flora of Virginia. By W. M. Fontaine. Ib. 1883. 
-. -. Yol. vii. Silver-Lead Deposits of Eureka, Nevada. By J. S. 
Curtis. Ib. 1884. 
-. -. Yol. viii. Palaeontology of the Eureka District. By C. D. 
Walcott. Ib. 1884. 
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Magazine. 
Vol. xxii, Nos. 64, 65. 8vo. Devizes, 1884-85. 
Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society. Proceedings. Yol. viii, 
part 3. 8vo. Leeds, 1884. 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. Transactions. Part 8. 8vo. London and 
Leeds, 1885. 
Purchased. 
Botany, Journal of. New Series, vol. xiv. 8vo. London, 1885. 
Cameron, P. A Monograph of the British Phytophagous Hymenoptera. Yol. ii. 
(Hay Society.) 8vo. London, 1885. 
Cassino, S. E. International Scientist’s Directory. 8vo. Boston, U.S.A. 1885. 
Entomologist. Yol. xviii. 8vo. London, 1885. 
Jackson, B. D. Guide to the Literature of Botany. ( Index Society .) 4to. 
London, 1881. 
Watson, H. C. Topographical Botany. Ed. 2. 8vo. London, 1883. 
Year-book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. 
Second Annual Issue. 8vo. London, 1885. 
Zoologist. 3rd Series, vol. ix. 8vo. London, 1885. 
Ordinary Meeting, 25th February, 1886, at Hertford. 
Professor Attfield, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.I.C., F.C.S., President, in the Chair. 
The following paper was read :— 
“ The Germ Theory of Disease.” Dy C. E. Shelly, E.A., M.D., 
Hon. Sec. 
