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judged it useful to make purchases to the amount of about 

 Forty Pounds, which, added to the Minerals presented to the 

 Society by its Members, and in particular, an extensive 

 donation from Mr. Hcpworth, form a respectable commence- 

 ment of a Mineralogical cabinet. 



The Committee have expended a more considerable sum in 

 the purchase of Books, a large proportion of which have been 

 foreign works in Natural History, imported on advantageous 

 terms directly from Paris. The Library has also been in- 

 creased by many liberal donations from AJcmbers of the 

 Society; and the books are now become sufficiently numerous 

 to make it proper that a list of them should be printed, and 

 regulations for the use of them framed ; though it cannot be 

 expected that the Library of an infant Society, with such 

 limited funds, should answer any extensive demand for 

 circulation. 



But the most considerable article of expenditure during the 

 last year, has been the fitting up of the Society's Rooms l^ith 

 the necessary Furniture, and particularly with Cabinets and 

 Cases. To combine security with facility of inspection, the 

 Committee have thought it desirable, as far as room permits, 

 to place the Minerals and Fossils under glass ; proposing 

 however, that the less striking specimens of geological detail 

 shall hereafter be distributed in drawers, which is the most 

 txonomical disposition, with respect both to cost and space 

 The expense of the glazed cases has raised the sum under this 

 head, in the Treasurer's account, to near Two Hundred 



