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sented them. A safe and convenient depository is also requisite for 

 the casts of the Megatherium which have been sent to the Society. 



The Council beg to direct the attention of the Society to the state 

 of the Library, which they consider to be deficient in works relative 

 to the progress of Geology on the Continent, and to observe that 

 foreign works and maps connected with this subject will be the most 

 acceptable donations which can be made to the Society. 



The Council have to announce that the Supplement to the third 

 volume of the Transactions will soon be published, and that the first 

 part of the fourth volume is also now in the press*. 



The Council have also directed that the proceedings up to the 

 close of the last Session, together with a full index and title-page, 

 which have been ordered to be prepared, should complete the first 

 volume of the Proceedings. The index and the title-page will soon 

 be ready for delivery. 



In pursuance of a resolution of Council of the 22nd of January, 

 1834, one year's dividend of the Wollaston Fund has been directed 

 to be paid to M. Agassiz in testimony of the high opinion enter- 

 tained by the Geological Society of London, of the scientific value 

 of his work on Fossil Fishes, and to encourage him in the prosecution 

 of his important undertaking. 



The great additional labour which has devolved upon the Curator 

 of the Museum has induced the Council to direct Mr. Lonsdale to 

 engage another clerk to assist him in the discharge of his duties. 

 Thev have now to announce that Mr. Bailey has been provisionally 

 appointed on trial for three months, 



REPORT of the Committee appointed to examine and report on 

 the state of the Museums. 



5th February, 1834. 

 The Committee have the satisfaction of announcing to the Council 

 that the Curator has made very considerable progress since the last 

 Anniversary in the arrangement of the different collections, and in 

 the removal of unnecessary and duplicate specimens. 



The principal features of the arrangements which have been car- 

 ried into effect by Mr. Lonsdale are : 



1st. That in the Foreign Collection nearly all the specimens pre- 

 sented up to the close of the Session of 1833, have been introduced 

 into the series, the only exceptions being those presented by Capt. 

 King from the Straits of Magalhaens, and by Capt. Belcher from the 



* The following is the statement of the stock of Transactions now re- 

 maining on hand : 



Vol. 1. Part 1, 4 Copies. Vol. II. Part 3, 190 Copies. 



_ 2, 30 Suppl. 247 



Vol. II. Part 1,127 Vol. III. Part 1,206 



— 2, 173 — 2, 264 



Both parts of vol. i. being thus out of print, and the number of these parts 

 having originally been equal to that of the others, the donation of that 

 volume or of either of the parts, will be acceptable to the Society. 



