10 Annual Report and Transactioiis of the Plymouth Institution, 
and in consequence of their decision the claim of Plymouth to the 
honour of the visit has been withdrawn in favour of Exeter. It is 
to be hoped that the Association may visit Devonshh'e at no very 
distant date. 
We desire to draw the attention of the Society to the present 
condition of the Library. There are many volumes missing, and 
the books generally need re- arrangement and careful examination, 
as some of them are being injured by damp. A new Catalogue is 
in progress. During the past year the following works have been 
added to the Library : — 
Mantissa Insectorum. Fabricius. 8vo. 
Newman's Entomologist, vol. ii. 
Uriconium. Anderson. 
History of British Sponges. Johnson. 
Birds of Devon. Tucker. 
Wood's Conchological Index. 
Miscellaneous Botanical Works of Dr. Robert Brown, vol. ii. 
Ray Society, 
Airy's Lectures on Astronomy. 
On the Structure of the Shoulder Girdle and Sternum in the 
Vertebrata. By Dr. Kitchen Parker. 
Farrar on the Origm of Language. 
Several Serials have been continued. 
We would suggest to the Curators of the Society that their 
Reports might be made of greater and lasting value if they would 
watch for and record all facts that may come under their notice, 
and occurrences during the year, relating to the Natural History 
and Antiquities of the two counties. A kind of local Year Book 
of Facts might thus be formed, which, being published in the 
Transactions of [the Society, would be of great use, not only to 
present and future students of the Natural History and Antiquities 
