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lecturer, on kindred subjects. The memory of W. J. Spry invites a 
passing tribute of respect, as of one in whom untiring energy and 
unceasing thirst for knowledge were ever most conspicuous; physi- 
cal weakness was eclipsed by the development of mental power, 
and what to some men w^ould have been irretrievable misfortune, 
he made an element of success. 
A brief memoir, appended to this Report, would be valued by 
those who have been associated with him in past discussions held 
in this hall. 
Grateful acknowledgments are due to the Royal Physical 
Society of Edinburgh, for three vols, of their Transactions : 
To the authorities of the Coast Survey Office of the United 
States, for the Report of the Superintendent of the U. S. Coast 
Survey for 1863-64, embodied in two large quarto volumes : 
To Mr. Spence Bate, F.R.S., for the arrangement in the 
Museum of the very interesting Romano-British remains found 
at Staddon Heights, and presented by him to the Institution : 
To Mr. T. R. Archer Briggs, for the gift of a fine specimen of 
the Stag Beetle (L. cerviis), caught at Tamerton Foliott ; 
And to Mr. G. C. Bignell, for many specimens of English Lepi- 
doptera, and for good service now being rendered in the arrange- 
ment of that department of Entomology in the Museum. 
The condition of the Library has engaged the attention of your 
Secretaries. Steps are being taken to bring it into a state of 
greater efficiency ; that, though small, it may be thoroughly avail- 
able in promoting scientific research amongst your members. 
The following serials are regularly received, and ultimately 
bound up in volumes as permanent additions to the Library: — 
The Quarteily Journal of Science. 
The Ibis. The Zoologist. The Entomologist. 
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 
The Philosophical Magazine. 
