ANNX7AL EEPORT. i^ 



England, which suggested the probable extension of the younger 

 palaeozoic (Carboniferous) deposits* beneath the Cretaceous group 

 around our metropohs, to the exclusion, in that area, of the Triassic, 

 Liassic, and Oolitic deposits f. 



The balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Fund has been 

 awarded to Professor Heer, to assist him in his important investi- 

 gations into the fossil botany of the Tertiary Strata. 



Eeport of the Library and Museum Committee, 1861-62, 

 The Museum. 



Your Committee have much pleasure in reporting that several 

 important additions have been made to the Foreign Collection since 

 the last Anniversary. Among them may be noticed the large 

 collections of Rocks and Fossils from several German localities, 

 presented by the President ; a most valuable series of Reptilian and 

 other fossils from the coal of Nova Scotia, presented by Dr. Dawson, 

 F.G.S. Fossils from Gothland, presented by Dr. Lmdstrdm, and 

 from the Andes by Mr. David Forbes, F.G.S. Also a number of 

 South African specimens, presented by Dr. Bowerbank, Dr. G. Grey, 

 Mr. G. "W. Stow, the Royal Geographical Society, and Dr. A. G. 

 Atherstone; while Rocks and Fossils from British localities have 

 been presented by the President and other donors. 



The Library and Museum Committee stated in their last Report 

 that the collection of European Fossils, occupying 48 cabinets con- 

 taining 336 drawers, had been nearly re-arranged according to 

 the plan determined upon by the Special Museum Committee at 

 their Meeting on the 25th of June, 1860, and that a catalogue of 

 those collections had been prepared by the President. 



Since that time the remaining Foreign Collections have been 

 similarly re-arranged imder the direction of the President and 

 Assistant- Secretary, and Catalogues of them have been made by the 

 President uniform with that of the European Collections, in accord- 

 ance "with the wish expressed by the Committee in their last Report. 

 They occupy 68 cabinets, containing 490 drawers as follows : — 





Cabinet3. 



Drawers. 



Asia 



21 



12 



145 



Africa 



72 



North America . 



24 



144 



West Indies 



5 



35 



South America 



2 



22 



Australasia 



3 



48 



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1 



24 



68 490 



* Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc. vol. xix. p. 384. 



t See Notices of the Proceedings of the Eoyal Institution, part 8. p. 511. 



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