FOURTH SERIES. VOL. 10: No. 3. Annual Report of the Council: With Obituary Notices of J. L. Treasurer's Accounts - pp. 102-138 Annual Report of the Council of the Microscopical and Natural Treasurer's Accounts of the Microscopical and Natural History Section List of the Council and Members Title Page and Contents for Volume. p. 143 MANCHESTER: 36 GEORGE STREET. Price One Sbilling. MAY 15TH, 1896. RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY. Presented. Berlin. Polytechnische Gesellschaft. Katalog der Bibliotek. 1895. British Museum (Trustees of). Catalogue of Printed Books. 1885-1886. Academies British Museum (Trustees of). Catalogue of Printed Books. Periodicals. 1885-1886. Greenwich.-Royal Observatory. Reduction of Greenwich Meteorological Observations. Pt. III., 1895. Rio de Janeiro.-Instituto Historico e Geographico Brazileiro. Homenagem a . . . . memoria de sua magestade o Senhor Dom Pedro II. 1894. Prof. A. Schuster, F.R.S. Terrestrial Magnetism: an international quarterly journal. Vol. I., Nos. 1, 2. 1896 And the usual Exchanges and Periodicals. . JUN 26 1896 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. The Siccity же [Microscopical and Natural History Section.] Annual Meeting, April 13th, 1896. JOHN BOYD, Esq., President of the Section, in the Chair. The annual report of the Council and the Treasurer's statement were submitted and adopted. The following gentlemen were elected officers and Council for the session 1896-97: President: CHARLES BAILEY, F.L.S. Vice-Presidents: JOHN BOYD; JAMES COSMO MElvill, M.A., F.L.S.; R. E. CUNLIFFE. Treasurer: MARK STIRRUP, F.G.S. Secretary: THEODORE SINGton. Council: J. F. ALLEN; T. A. COWARD; ALEXANDER HODGKINSON, M.B., B.Sc.; W. E. HOYLE, M.A.; HENRY HYDE; FRANCIS NICHOLSON, F.Z.S.; C. OLDHAM ; THOMAS ROGERS. Mr. JAMES COSMO MELVILL, M.A., F.L.S., exhibited a fine specimen of the Shore Lark (Otocorys alpestris), shot by his son, Mr. J. C. D. Melvill, in October, 1894, on the seashore near Heysham, Morecambe Bay. It has been submitted to Mr. John Wrigley, of Formby, who states it to be the eighteenth or nineteenth specimen recorded as captured in the county of Lancaster. Mr. W. E. HOYLE, M.A., described Mr. Field's card catalogue system of recording zoological literature. He also showed a specimen number of the first instalment of "Das Tierreich," a work which has been undertaken by the German Zoological Society; when complete it will |