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only have they given the current numbers of their valuable Pro- 
ceedings," but have also supplied, on the application of the 
Librarian, their volumes for 1855, 1856, and 1858, so as to render 
the set in the Library complete from 1850. 
''They have moreover to thank the Geological Society for the 
Quarterly Journal of their proceedings ; the Eoyal Dublin Society 
for part 39 of their Journal ; the American Smithsonian Institution 
for their volume for 1868 ; the Eoyal Geological Society of Ireland 
for a portion of their Journal; the Devon Association for their 
Report for 1870 ; the Eoyal Institution of Cornvrall for Ko. xi. of 
their interesting Journal ; the Cornwall Polytechnic Society for 
their Report for 1860; the Natural History Society of Northum- 
berland and Durham for part 2 of vol. iii, of their Transactions ; 
the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club for their Proceedings for 1870; 
and the Winchester and Hampshire Scientific and Literary Society 
for a copy of their Pirst Report. 
''Among their own Members, they have to thank Mr. Spence 
Bate for the Botanical portion of the Journal of the Linnsean 
Society, and a copy of his Memoir of the British - Roman An- 
tiquities found in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, published in the 
ArchcBologia, and Mr. J. Brooking Eowe for many volumes, amongst 
which are a copy of Albertus Magnus de Animalibus, Eondelet des 
Poissons, Pennant's Arctic Zoology, 2 vols., Pennant's Indian 
Zoology, 1 vol., British Association Report for 1851, and the 
Report of the Capital Punishment Commission. The Librarian 
has supplied a copy of the Journal of Botany. Dr. Stratton, 
Deputy Inspector General, r.n., though not connected with the 
Society, has kindly presented a copy of his work, "The Celtic 
Origin of Greek and Latin." 
"During the past year the Society have obtained by purchase, 
"Zoological Record," vols. iii. and v., the first to fill a hiatus in 
the set, the other in continuation of it; 9 vols, of "Annals and 
Magazine of Natural History," to render the work complete to 
the present time; Darwin's "Descent of Man," 2 vols.; and 
Bellamy's "Natural History of South Devon." 
A complete set of the "Annual Reports" of their own Society, 
in the form of two handsome volumes, have been received from the 
binder. 
" The following is a list of the serials at present subscribed for : 
Quarterly Journal of Science ; American Journal of Science ; Phi- 
