ANNUAL REPORT. iii 



Report of the Library and Museum Committee. 

 Library. 



The Museum and Library Committee report that the books that 

 have been presented and 'purchased during the year have been cata- 

 logued, placed on the shelves, and bound as far as necessary. Amongst 

 the presented books we have specially to refer to Dr. Carpenter's 

 present of eight volumes of the " Annals and Magazine of Natural ■ 

 History," from 1841 to 1844. The shelves already provided are so 

 nearly full, that it is probable that at no distant date further accom- 

 modation may be required. 



The Supplemental Catalogue of Books, which Mr. Jones has been 

 preparing, is almost ready to go to press, and that of the Maps and 

 Charts, as well as the principal Manuscript Sections and Drawings 

 in the Society's portfolios, will soon follow. These portfolios (referred 

 to in the last Annual Report) now include most of the original draw- 

 ings, sections, and maps which have accompanied the memoirs read 

 to the Society. Additional room being required for portfolios to 

 contain the MS. Sections and Drawings, we recommend that a new case 

 be provided in one of the window-recesses in the Lower Museum. 



All those maps and sections ordered by the Map Committee to be 

 mounted, have been mounted and put in cases, so as to be easily ac- 

 cessible. 



The Committee recommend to the Council that application should 

 be made to the Board of Ordnance for copies of the new editions of 

 such Maps of the Ordnance Survey as have been altered and re- 

 published, and also for a copy of the Survey of London. 



Museum. 



Additional glass-cases have been made for some Fishes from the 

 Old Red Sandstone and for some Oolite Ammonites, in the Lower 

 Museum. The Committee feel it their duty to suggest that the Col- 

 lection would be rendered much more useful to the Members and 

 Students consulting the Cabinets, if a person were engaged to work 

 under Mr. Jones's direction in cleaning, arranging, labelling, and 

 cataloguing the Fossils in the Museum. It would also greatly 

 enhance the utility of the Collections, if the British species of Fossils 

 contained in the Lower Museum were marked oif in an interleaved 

 copy of the forthcoming edition of Mr. Morris's "Catalogue of 

 British Fossils ;" which might possibly be eifected, could several 

 Fellows be induced to render temporary assistance in the departments 

 of Palaeontology with which they are most familiar. 



Among the donations, the following are especially worthy of notice. 

 Fossil Plants from the Great Oolite of the Cotswold Hills, Fossil 

 Lisects from the Lower Lias of Lyme, and Fossil Insects and Plants 

 from the Wealden of Hastings, presented by Mr. W. R. Binfield. 

 Also a Suite of Shells from the London Clay of Highgate, from 

 Mr. N. T. Wetherell, F.G.S. 



To the Foreign Collection have been added a series of fossils from 

 Persia, presented by Mr. Kennett Loftus, F.G.S. ; a series of fresh- 

 water fossils from Nagpoor, by the Rev. Messrs. Hislop and Hunter ; 



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