xiv PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I9C4, 



Mr. C. Davies Sherborn supplies the following details with regard 

 to the progress of the new Card-Catalogue of the whole Library, 

 upon which he is engaged : — 



' The 1880 Catalogue has been mounted, cross-referenced, and arranged in 

 cabinets up to "Humboldt"; and all "Serials," "Academies," "Surveys," 

 " Reports," etc. included therein have been also roughly sorted into cabinets. 

 This statement applies also to the "Additions made to the Library" from 

 1880 to 1888. It will be impossible to press-mark the cards until further 

 progress is made ; but the subject- and locality-cards should already be of 

 considerable utility, as, for example, " Caves/' " Vesuvius," " Gold," etc' 



Museum. 



Messrs. J. F. Walker & G. W. Lamplugh presented a series of 

 Fossil Brachiopoda from the fossiliferous band at the top of the 

 Lower Greensand at Shenley Hill, near Leighton Buzzard, figured 

 in Plates XVI-XVIII, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Vol. LIX (1903), 

 which illustrate the paper dealing with the above-mentioned 

 stratum. 



A specimen of the Volcanic Ash which fell in Barbados, as a 

 result of the eruption of the St. Vincent Soufriere, on March 22nd, 

 1903, was presented by Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., Imperial 

 Commissioner of Agriculture for the West Indies. 



For the purpose of study and comparison the Collections were 

 visited on 34 occasions during the year, the contents of about 

 63 drawers (from 43 cabinets) being thus examined. Moreover, 

 the permission of the Council having been duly obtained, about 

 122 specimens were lent to various investigators. 



Xo expenditure, beyond that involved in the publication of the 

 Museum-Catalogue, was incurred in connexion with the Museum 

 during the year 1903. 



The appended Lists contain the Xames of Government Depart- 

 ments, Public Bodies, Societies, Editors, and Personal Donors, from 

 whom Donations to the Library have been received during the year 

 under review : — 



I. Government Departments and other Public Bodies. 



American Museum of Natural History. New York. 



Athens. — Observatoire National d'Athenes. 



Australian Museum. Sydney (New South Wales). 



Austria. — Kaiserlich-Konigliche Geologische Reichsanstalt. Vienna. 



. Kaiserlicli-K6niglicb.es Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum. Vienna. 



Bavaria. — Konigliches Bayerisches Oberbergamt. Munich. 

 Belgium. — Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres & des Beaux-Arts de 

 Belgique. Brussels. 



. Musee Boyal d'Histoire Naturelle. Brussels. 



Berlin. — Konigliche Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 

 Birmingham, University of. 



