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been sought out and indexed. The manuscript of this portion will 

 be ready for the printer in a few weeks, and the Committee is 

 considering the best form of publication and estimating the cost. 

 Meanwhile the indexing of literature after 1800 is being continued. 

 At this stage the Committee would be glad to receive suggestions or 

 offers of help for the publication of this great work, since the sums 

 hitherto so generously awarded to it are only sufficient for the 

 necessary current expenses, which continue as before. The Com- 

 mittee therefore earnestly requests its reappointment with a grant 

 of £100. 



The following report on dates of publication has been issued by 

 Mr. Sherborn during the year: Lacepede's "Tableaux des Mammi- 

 feres et des Oiseaux," Natural Science, December, 1899. The 

 Committee desires to thank M. Gadeau de Kerville, Dr. Eudolph 

 Burckhardt, of Basel, Mr. F. Justen (Dulau & Co.), and the 

 Smithsonian Institution of Washington for assistance concerning 

 rare books wanted by the compiler. 



X. — Woodwabd's Table of British Stratigraphioal Geology 

 AND Paleontology ; showing the Economio Products of each 

 Formation.^ 



E. HENEY WOODWAED exhibited on behalf of Mr. Horace 

 Woodward and himself a coloured Table of British Strata, 

 showing the major and minor subdivisions of the strata, with their 

 thicknesses, the characteristic fossils met with in each, also their 

 economic products, and the places throughout the British Isles where 

 the several formations are exposed at the surface and can be studied. 

 The Table will be published by Messrs. Dulau & Co., 37, Soho 

 Square, W. 



S, IE "V" I Si 'VT S- 



Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of the 

 United Kingdom for 1899. pp. 214. (London : printed for 

 H.M. Stationery Office, 1900. Price Is.) 



THIS, the third issue of the " Summary of Progress," has the 

 merit of being a trifle shorter than the previous number ; and 

 contains, as an Appendix, a very useful "Catalogue of Types and 

 Figured Specimens from the Eocene and Oligocene Series preserved 

 in the Museum of Practical Geology," compiled by Mr. H. A. Allen. 

 We hope that further instalments of this Catalogue will be published 

 at as early a period as possible. 



With regard to the "Summary" of the field-work, we venture to 

 rejoice if it is a few pages shorter, because there is a tendency to 

 print an excessive amount of detail, and thereby to obscure the 

 character of the work done. Those interested in the progress of 

 science want to know clearly and readily the advances which have 

 been made, not simply the observations made, by officers of the 



1 Exhibited and explained before the British Association in Section C (Geology)., 

 atxthe Bradford Meeting, September, 1900. 



