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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
" As in past years a number of volumes of serials subscribed for 
or received from other Societies have been bound and placed with 
the respective sets on the shelves. 
4 'It is pleasing to find the published 'Transactions' of the 
Society valued and sought after by similar learned Associations. 
During the past year the Eoyal Society have agreed to supply 
their own ' Proceedings ' in exchange for them ; as have also the 
Geologists' Association of London, and the Natural History Society 
of Glasgow. 
" The Librarian having been applied to for certain parts of the 
' Transactions' by persons desirous of possessing copies, the Council 
have resolved to sell them at such prices as are given in the notice 
now fixed in the lobby of the Athenaeum. 
" One of the Curators, Mr. James Hine, has designed an em- 
blematical label for pasting within the covers of the books. This 
has since been engraved for use. 
"The Librarian is glad to report that the three volumes; viz., 
' Bottrell's Transactions and Hearth-side Stories of West Cornwall ' 
(1st series); 'Murchison's Silurian System;' and 'Shea's Animal 
Physiology/ missing last year, have all been recovered. On the 
other hand, Darwin's 'Descent of Man/ vol. ii., is now missing. 
" The following works have been purchased : ' Geological 
Eecord/ 1876 ; Palseontographical Society's publications, 5 vols., 
and that for 1878; 'Zoological Eecord/ 1876 ; 'Zoological Society 
Proceedings/ several vols, to complete set ; ' Brady's Monograph 
to the British Copepoda/ Eay Society ; ' Microscopical Journal,' 
vols. i.-xi. ; ' Eutley's Eruptive Eocks of Brent Tor and its Neigh- 
bourhood;' 'Yarrell's Birds,' ed. 4, part 12; 'Norden's Survey of 
Cornwall,' 1728; 'Early English Text Society's' volumes for the 
past year. The following have been presented : ' Halliwell's Eambles 
in West Cornwall,' 1861 ; ' Wilkie Collins's Eambles beyond Eail- 
ways;' 'Spargo's Mines of Cornwall,' 1865 ; 'Tumor's Astra Castra;' 
' Transactions of Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire,' vols, 
viii. x., by Mr. J. Brooking Eowe. 'The Ibis,' vol. i., by Mr. 
Stephen Clogg, of Looe; Italian Pamphlets, Maps of Turkey, &c, 
from Mr. W. P. and Mrs. Jervis; 'Weather Charts/ from Dr. 
Merrifield. The following Parts of Serials have been received, 
mostly in exchange for the ' Transactions ' : Australia, ' Catalogue 
of Plants under Cultivation in Government Botanic Garden, 
Adelaide/ from Mr. W. Wyatt ; ' Berwickshire Naturalists' Field 
