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secretaries' report. 
on Electricity.' The Librarian has given the current numbers of 
the * Journal of Botany.' 
''There have been purchased several volumes of the 'Philologist,' 
rendering the set complete; the 'Ibis,' vol. iii. (1861); the new 
edition of Yarrell's 'Birds,' by Newton, 3 I^os., all yet issued ; 
the 'Zoological Becord' for 1870; 'Monograph of the Gym- 
noblastic or Tubularian Hydroids' (Royal Society's vol.) ; ' Owen's 
Odontology,' 2 vols. ; ' Collins' s Handbook to the Mineralogy of 
Cornwall and Devon;' 'Siguier's Primitive Man;' the ' Entomo- 
mological Magazine,' 5 vols.; 'Couch's History of Polperro ;" 
the 'Journal of Botany,' vols. i. and vii., completing the set; 
' Leighton's Lichen Elora of Great Britain ; ' ' Worth's History of 
Plymouth;' '"Worth's History of Devonport;' and two parts of 
the 'Journal of the Geological Society of Ireland.' 
" The British Association Report for 1852 has been received in 
exchange for three Reports of other years of which the Society 
possessed duplicate copies, and as the volume for 1844 has been 
recovered from a second-hand bookseller, the entire set of these 
Reports is now in the Library." 
{Signed) 
EREDERIC E. AOTHO^TY, 
W. ADAMS, 
Jivil 30th, 1872. 
