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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
3. That the collection be under the charge of the Curator of the 
Library, and only to be consulted on application to and at such 
times as may be arranged with him. 
4. That any person wishing to see any Tract be requested to fill up n 
ticket in the form provided, and the applicant shall be responsible 
to the Society for the safe custody and return of the book. 
At present no arrangements can be made for giving access to 
this collection. The Tracts are now placed as they were delivered, 
but it will be necessary to classify and catalogue them. This 
work is in progress, and it is hoped the Council will be able to print 
the catalogue when the MS. is ready. The gift is a munificent 
one, and the Society is to be congratulated that the Rev. Thomas 
Davidson and his sisters selected it to be the custodian of so 
interesting a collection. As far as can be ascertained, there are 
about 1500 separate tracts. 
" The following works have been presented to the Library during 
the past year : 'Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society,' series 
2, vol. vi. parts 1 to 6, vol. vii. part 1, by the Society. 'Proceed- 
ings of the Zoological Society of London,' 1885, part 4, 1886, 
parts 1, 2, 3, by the Society. 'Journal of the Geological Society 
of London,' vol. 42, parts 23 and 24, and vol. 43, by the Society. 
'Proceedings of the Geologists Association,' 5, 6, and 7, vol. ix., 
by the Association. 'Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Nos. 
242 to 252, by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Royal Geographical 
Society,' vol. viii. Nos. 4 to 11, by Mr. W. Square, f.r.c.s. 
'Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, 1886,' 
by the Society. 'The Registers of Bishop Edmund Stafford,' by 
Rev. Preb. Hingeston-Randolph, by C. A. Hingston, Esq., m.d. 
' The Proceedings of the Geological and Natural History Survey 
of Canada,' by the Society. 'Proceedings and Transactions of the 
Natural History Society of Glasgow,' and index to vols. i. to v., 
by the Society. 'Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists' Field 
Club,' 1884-85, by the Society. 'Atti della Societa Toscana,' 
vol. vii., 1886, by the Society. 'Scientific Transactions Royal 
Dublin Society,' 1885-86, by the Society. 'Fifty-third Annua] 
Report Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society,' by the Society. ' The 
History of England,' in blank verse, by T. S. Burt, f.r.s. ; 'Virgil,' 
translated into blank verse, 3 vols., by T. S. Burt, f.r.s. ; 'Thomas a 
Kempis, the Christian's Pattern,' in blank verse, by T. S. Burt, f.r.s. ; 
c Sacred History,' in blank verse, by T. S. Burt, f.r.s. ; 'Come to 
