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work in fostering the advancement of Geological Science in the 

 Hull district, especially in connexion with the Glacial Geology of 

 East Yorkshire. 



A moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological 

 Fund is awarded to Mr. Frederick Richard Cowper Reed, in recog- 

 nition of his researches on the Palaeozoic Geology, and especially 

 the Invertebrate Fossils, of Great Britain and Ireland and of the 

 Indian Empire and other regions. 



The other moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell 

 Geological Fund is awarded to Dr. Robert Broom, in recognition of 

 his researches on the Reptiles of the Karroo Formation of South 

 Africa. 



Report of the Library and Museum Committee for 1909. 



The Committee have pleasure in reporting that the Additions- 

 made to the Library during the year under review have main- 

 tained, both in number and in importance, the standard of previous- 

 years. 



During the past twelve months the Library has received by Dona- 

 tion 229 Yolumes of separately published Works, 316 Pamphlets,. 

 33 Detached Parts of Works, 239 Yolumes, and 35 Detached Parts 

 of Serial Publications, and 25 Yolumes of Newspapers. 



The total number of accessions to the Library by Donation is 

 thus found to amount to 493 Yolumes, 316 Pamphlets, and 68 

 Detached Parts. Moreover, 153 Sheets of Geological Maps were 

 presented to the Library, including 62 Sheets received from the 

 Geological Survey of England and Wales, and 54 Sheets from 

 that of Scotland ; 9 Sheets from the Geological Survey of Canada ; 



3 Sheets from the Geological Commission of the Cape Colony ; 



4 Sheets from the Geological Survey of the Transvaal ; 3 Sheets 

 from the Geological Institute of Rumania ; 3 Sheets from the 

 Geological Survey of Japan ; 2 Sheets presented by the Swiss Geolo- 

 gical Commission ; and 3 Sheets of the International Geological 

 Map of Europe. 



Among the Books and Pamphlets mentioned in the foregoing 

 paragraph, especial attention may be directed to the following 

 works : — the third edition of Prof. H. Rosenbusch's 'Elemente der 

 Gesteinslehre ' ; Vol. I of the 3rd edition of Prof. E. Kayser's 

 ' Lehrbuch der Geologie'; the Reports of the National Antarctic 

 Expedition of 1901-1904, issued by the Royal Society ; the Record 

 of the Darwin -Wall ace Celebration by the Linnean Society ; the 

 late Prof. A. Heilprin's work on the Eruption of Mont Pele ; 

 Prof. A. Lacroix's exhaustive account of ' La Montagne Pelee apres 

 ses Eruptions' ; >Sir Archibald Geikie's memoir of ' Charles Darwin, 

 as Geologist' : Prof. A. G. Nathorst's kindred theme, 'Carl von 

 Linne als Geolog ' ; the Report on the San Francisco Earthquake 



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