secretaries' report. 
elaborate printed " Meteorological Returns," received by him from 
the London office. The Librarian has given the current numbers 
of the " Journal of Botany." There have been purchased many 
volumes of the " Quarterly Journal" of the Geological Society of 
London, rendering the set on the shelves nearly complete: — Evans's 
" Ancient Stone Implements ;" Stevens's " Flint Chips ;" Symonds's 
1 ' Records of the Rocks;" Borlase's "Nsenia Cornubise;" Mac- 
lean's " History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor," vol. i. (all yet 
published); Allman's " Monograph of the Gymnoblastic or Tubu- 
larian Hydroids," part 2 (Ray Society); Darwin's ''Expression of 
the Emotions in Man and Animals;" Bentham's " Illustrated 
Handbook of the British Flora," 2 vols.; Bastian's " Beginnings 
of Life," 2 vols.; "Wallis's " Cornwall Register;" Newton's edition 
of "YarrelPs British Birds" (so far as yet issued); and Jewitt's 
" History of Plymouth." 
{Signed) 
April 3rd, 1873. 
