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The Story of the Guns. By Sir James Emerson Tennent .... 
Nautical Almanack, 1864.. 
Hewitt’s Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe. 3 vols.... 
Hutton’s Mathematical Tables. 
English and Danish Dictionary . 
Etudes sur L’Artillerie. Vol. III. and IY. 
Les Marines de la France et de L’Angleterre ... 
Bevue de Technologie Militaire ou Becueil International. 2 vols. 
Etudes sur la Defense des Etats et sur la Fortification. Par A. Brialmont. 
3 vols. and atlas ... ..... 
Glossaire de la Langue Bomaine. 3 vols. 
Birds of Asia. No. 15 . 
Birds of Great Britain. Nos. 3 and 4 . 
The Principles of War, or Elementary Treatise on higher Tactics and 
Strategy . 
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Publications received Periodically . 
Comptes Bendus. 
Le Spectateur Militaire. 
Journal de Mathematiques. 
Journal des Sciences Militaires. 
Journal des Armes Speciales. 
Journal of the Society of Arts. 
The British Journal of Photography. 
The Photographic News. 
Proceedings of the Palseontographical Society. 
The Ibis, a Magazine of general Ornithology. 
5. Museum .—The whole of the fossils and minerals have been thoroughly 
examined, and carefully classified, by Mr Davies of the British Museum, who 
has also prepared numbered catalogues both of the minerals and of the fossils, 
which greatly facilitate reference to the original specimens. These catalogues 
(a specimen sheet accompanies this Beport) have been printed at the 
Institution, and will be sent free to any Member who may apply for them. 
It is hoped that, by the wants in the Collection thus becoming known, 
many of the deficiencies will be supplied. 
Several interesting additions have been made to the Orinthological part of 
the Museum during the past year. They include a choice collection of birds 
from Malta, collected by Captain 0. Carr, B.A., very interesting on account 
of being, for the most part, species that are also found in Great Britain. 
From J. K. Lord, Esq., a second gift of animals, birds, eggs, and insects 
from British Columbia has been received ; also the collection of insects from 
India, mentioned in last year's report as expected from Lieut. Hime, has 
arrived, the Lepidoptera mostly in fine condition, the Coleoptera damaged to 
some extent. It is however the most numerous as well as the most valuable 
collection of insects that the Institution has yet received. It may not be 
out of place here to mention that Coleoptera travel best packed between 
sheets of wadding without pins in them. They may also be safely sent if put 
in bottles, with spirits, dividing the bottles, according to size, with layers of 
cotton wool. Great care must be taken that the bottles are quite full, to 
avoid any shaking of the insects. 
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