178 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
F.R.8., and Major-General Nelson, R.£., the first an honorary and 
the second a corresponding member of the Institution. It has also 
to regret the loss, by removal from Plymouth, of two highly- 
valued members, the Rev. S. Beal, B.a., wR.A.s., and Mr. F. G. 
Landon, m.a., both Vice-Presidents for the present Session. Mr. 
Beal still however retains his connection with the Institution, 
having been unanimously elected an honorary member; and it is 
to be hoped that on some future occasions the Society may be 
favoured with others of his learned and thoughtful lectures. 
The laws as revised at the last Annual Meeting have been 
printed, and copies can be supplied to those members who have 
not yet- received them. 
The Curator of the Library reports as follows: 
“‘ During the past year a considerable addition has been made to 
the books in the Library of the Plymouth Institution. The newly- 
acquired volumes have been obtained in the following ways: By 
presentation from Members or others interested in the Society ; 
by receipts from kindred institutions in exchange for the “Trans- 
actions’; by the binding up of volumes in continuation of the 
serials subscribed for ; and by purchase. 
“The works that have been presented are the following: British 
Association ‘ Report,’ 1876, from the Society ; Devonshire Associa- 
tion, 1877, from the Society ; ‘Sprigge’s Anglia Rediviva,’ 1647, 
‘Huxham on Fevers,’ and ‘Huxham’s Observations’ (three works 
of local interest), from Mr, J. Brooking Rowe; ‘ Ray’s Synopsis 
Methodica Stirpium LBritannicarum,’ 1690; ‘Dalton’s English 
Traveller,’ 1794, from Mr. F. Brent; ‘Inscribed Stones and 
Ancient Crosses of Devon,’ part 1, from the author, Mr. C. Spence 
Bate ; ‘Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australia,’ from the author, 
Dr. G. Bennett; Parts of ‘Proceedings’ of Geographical Society, 
from Mr. W. Square; Tales, Poems, and Masonic Papers, from 
the author, Mr. Emra Holmes; a pamphlet, entitled, ‘ Here 
and there in Chaucer,’ from the author, Dr. Weymouth ; another 
from Dr. R. W. Woollcombe, the author, ‘Some Reasons for the 
supposition that the Red Corpuscules of the Blood have Cycloidal 
Rotation ;’ ‘ Notes on the Geology of Lewisham,’ from Mr. Johnston 
Lavis; and numerous Weather Charts, from Dr. Merrifield. 
‘‘The following have been received in exchange for the ‘Transac- 
tions’: From Dr. Hayden, of the United States Geological Survey — 
