ANNUAL REPORT. HI 



Report of the Library and Museum Committee. 

 Library. 



The bequest of upwards of 1150 volumes, besides Pamphlets, 

 Maps, and Plates, to the Society by the late G. B. Greenough, 

 Esq., was referred to in last year's Report. 



Of these books about 250 have been arranged on the Library- 

 shelves in place of the Society's copies of the same works, in accord- 

 ance with the suggestions of the Committee appointed for the dispo- 

 sition of Mr. Greenough' s Bequest. About sixty other volumes have 

 been retained as Duplicates of works already in the Library, and of 

 which it is desirable to keep a second copy. About 540 volumes 

 have been selected as works new to the Library. 



Without reckoning Pamphlets, there is therefore an accession, 

 from this source, of about 600 volumes to the Society, and a replace- 

 ment of about 250 volumes on the shelves by, for the most part, 

 better copies. 



The remaining Duplicates of Mr. Greenough's Books, together 

 with the volumes removed from the Library-shelves, have been 

 disposed of under the care of the Special Committee above referred 

 to, and are in course of distribution in the following manner : to the 

 Royal Geographical Society thirty volumes : to ttie Geological Survey 

 150 volumes: to the University College 260 volumes. About 110 

 duplicates still remain for distribution. 



In the Society's Library there are about 100 duplicate volumes of 

 works not in request, and which it would be desirable to part with 

 to obtain space on the shelves. These Duplicates might be con- 

 veniently distributed in the same manner and at the same time as the 

 Duplicates of Mr. Greenough's Bequest. 



A valuable gift of Books has been made to the Society during the 

 past year by Henry Sharpe, Esq., who has presented thirty works 

 from the Library of our late lamented President, Daniel Sharpe, Esq., 

 and a nearly complete series of separate copies of Mr. D. Sharpe's 

 published papers. 



Mr. Henry Sharpe's gifts, and the other presents of books and 

 periodicals since the last Anniversary, have been arranged in their 

 places in the Library, and for the most part bound as far as is 

 necessary. 



The majority of Mr. Greenough's books are not yet permanently 

 arranged on the shelves ; and are as yet only catalogued in manu- 

 script. 



Considerable labour will be required to complete the necessary 

 arrangement of books, both in the Library and on the supplemental 

 shelves in the Assistant-Secretary's Room, and on those lately erected 

 in the Meeting Room in accordance with the suggestion of the above- 

 mentioned Committee. 



The very large and important collection of Geological Maps 

 bequeathed by the late G. B. Greenough, Esq., have been catalogued 

 in manuscript and have been placed in geographical order in the 



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