led to the abstraction of some few of them from the Library, the Committee have judged it expedient to have the Minerva head impressed in gold letters on the sides, and the name of the Club on the backs of all the books. This operation is in progress, but it will take some time before it is completed.

The Catalogue of Donations affixed to this Report, will show that the Club continues to be indebted to the liberality of the members for many valuable accessions to the Library; and in reference to the last year's Report on this subject, the Club will perceive, by the List immediately annexed of the most important purchases since effected, that these acquisitions have been made in strict adherence to the principles there laid down.

FINE ARTS AND ANTIQUITIES.

Il Museo Pio Clementino, descritto da Ennio Quirino Visconti. 8 vols., folio. 1782-1808.

Galerie de Florence et du Palais Pitti. 4 vols., royal folio. Paris, 1819.

Eglises Principales de l'Europe, a Series of Outlines and Architectural Details of the principal Cathedrals in Europe. Milan, 2 vols., folio, 1824.

Cicognara, Leopoldo, Le Fabbriche più cospicue di Venezia, misurate, illustrate, ed intagliate, dai membri della Veneta Reale Accademia, &c. Venezia, 2 vols., folio, 1815.

Carter's, John, Ancient Architecture of England. Folio, 1837.

Carter's, John, Ancient Sculpture and Painting in England. Folio, 1838.

Cotman, J. S., Architectural Antiquities of Normandy. Folio, 1822.

Stothard, C. A., Monumental Antiquities of Great Britain. Folio, 1817.

Jones, Owen, History of the Alhambra. Folio, 1. p., 1839. Pugin, A. W., Examples of Gothic Architecture. 3 vols., 4to., 1838.

Britton, J., Cathedral Antiquities. 6 vols., 4to., v. y. Spanhemii, E., De Usu Numismatum. 2 vols., folio, 1717.

PHILOLOGY,

Hesychii Lexicon Græcum cum Notis, cura Alberti. 2 vols., 1746.

Freytagii, G. W., Lexicon Arabico-Latinum. 4 vols., 4to. Halis-Saxonum, 1838.

Pelletier, Dictionnaire de la Langue Bretonne. Folio, 1752.

Bullet, Mémoires sur la Langue Celtique. 3 vols., folio,

1754.

Bosworth, J., Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. 8vo., 1838.

Gebelin, Court de, Monde Primitif analysé et comparé avec le Monde Moderne. 9 vols., 4to., 1773.

Linde Slownik Jezika Polskiego, &c. i. e. Polish Dictionary. 6 vols., 4to., 1807-14.

Hervás Catálogo de las Lenguas Conocidas, &c. Madrid, 6 vols., 4to., 1800-5.

Bopp, F., Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanscrit. Berlin, 4to., 1833.

Meidinger, Dictionnaire des Langues Teuto-Gothiques, Francfort, 8vo., 1833.

Andres, G., Dell' Origine, Progressi, e Stato Attuale d' ogni Litteratura. Roma. 9 vols., 4to., 1808.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Herrera, Descripcion de las Indias Occidentales, 4 vols., folio. Madrid, 1730.

Bory, de St. Vincent, Expédition Scientifique de Morée.

(Géographie, &c.) Paris. 5 vols., folio, 1839.

Blouet, Abel, Expédition Scientifique de Morée. (Architecture, &c.) Paris. 3 vols., royal folio, 1831. Leibnitii, G. G. Opera Omnia. Geneva. 1768.

6 vols., 4to.,

Loudon, J. C., Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum. 8 vols., 8vo., 1838.

Sarpi, Fra-Paolo, Tutte le sue Opere. Helmstadt. 8 vols., 4to., 1765.

Niceron, Mémoires des Hommes Illustres. Paris. 44 vols., 12mo.

Clutterbuck, Robert, History of Hertfordshire. 3 vols., folio, 1815.

THE following new Members have been elected under the Second Rule of the Club :

28th January, 1840.

ROBERT STEPHENSON, Esq., Engineer of the Birmingham and North Midland Railways.

The Ven. Archdeacon S. WILBERFORCE, M.A. Oxford, Rector of Brightstone, Isle of Wight. One of the Authors of the "Life of Wilberforce," Author of "Eucharista," "Ser

'Journals of the Rev. H. Martyn,' and several other Theological works.

25th February, 1840.

GIDEON ALGERNON MANTELL, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. Author of various works on Geology, founder of a large collection of Fossils recently purchased by the British Museum, and well known as the discoverer of the Iguanodon and Hyloosaurus, for which discoveries and his extensive and accurate knowledge of, and practical skill in, comparative anatomy, he received in 1838 the Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society.

RICHARD OWEN, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.L.S., Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology in the Royal College of Surgeons, and author of many valuable and original papers on physiological, medical, and anatomical Subjects, published in the Philosophical Transactions, and in those of the Geological, Linnæan, Zoological, and Medico-Chirurgical Societies, and at present engaged by the British Association to draw up a Memoir on Fossil Reptiles.

31st March, 1840.

Major H. C. RAWLINSON, of the Bombay Army, many years resident in Persia, and author of several learned papers on the ancient and modern Geography of Central Asia, in illustration of the histories of the Assyrian, Median, Persian, and Parthian monarchies, &c.

FRANCIS GORE,

5th May, 1840.

Chairman.

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