﻿XU PKOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May IC)IO, 



issued by the Earthquake Investigation Committee (Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington) ; the 2nd edition of the ' Geology of 

 South Africa,' by Dr. E. H. Hatch & Dr. G. S. Corstorphine ; "the 

 2nd edition of the ' Geology of Cape Colony,' by Dr. A. W. Rogers & 

 Mr. A. L. Du Toit ; the two volumes and atlas recording the results 

 of the Scientific Mission to Ethiopia, by the late Jean Duchesne- 

 Fournet ; Dr. J. M. Maclaren's exhaustive treatise on ' Gold ' ; 

 the 5th edition of Dr. F. H. Hatch's ' Textbook of Petrology ' ; the 

 finely printed first volume of the Memoirs issued by the new Geolo- 

 gical Survey of the Netherlands ; the Geological Survey Memoirs 

 on the Neighbourhood of Newark and Nottingham, on the Country 

 near Oban & Dalmally, on the Country around Londonderry, on 

 the Water-Supply of Kent, Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire ; 

 and the second edition of the Geological Survey Memoir on the 

 Country around Newport (Mon.). Moreover, numerous publi- 

 cations were received from the Geological Survey Departments of 

 Canada, the Cape Colony, the Transvaal, of the various States of the 

 Australian Commonwealth, and of the Dominion of New Zealand ; 

 also from the Geological Survey departments of Hesse-Darmstadt, 

 Wurtemberg, Prussia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Eussia, Rumania, 

 Spain, and Portugal : from the United States Geological Survey 

 and from the independent State Surveys of Iowa, Missouri, New 

 Jersey, New York, and Ohio. The President of the Society pre- 

 sented to the Library the first five volumes of the Geologisches 

 Centralblatt (Keilhack), bound in cloth. 



The Books and Maps enumerated above were the gift of 144 

 Government Departments and other Public Bodies ; of 179 Societies 

 and Editors of Periodicals ; and of 1 95 Personal Donors. 



The Purchases, made on the recommendation of the standing 

 Library Committee, included 39 Volumes and 4 Detached Parts of 

 separately published Works ; 55 Yolumes and 11 Parts of Works 

 published serially ; and 15 Sheets of Geological Maps. 



The Expenditure incurred in connexion with the Library during 

 the Year 1909 was as follows : — 



£ s. d. 



Books, Periodicals, etc. purchased 78 12 9 



Binding of Books and Mounting of Maps. ... 93 15 7 



£172 8 4 



With regard to the Card Catalogue of the Library, Mr. C. D. 

 Sherborn reports as follows : — 



' The Card Catalogue progresses well, and the cards of " Geological Litera- 

 ture " for 1908 have now been checked, sorted, and put away in the cabinets. 

 The literature from 1800 to 1894 has been begun ; and, in order to proceed as 

 rapidly as possible, two copies of the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific 

 Papers were cut up into slips for mounting on cards. The twenty-four 

 volumes were read and marked last year, and rearranged into one alphabet ; 

 and most of the cards for the letters A & B have been cross-referenced and 

 arranged, and are now being put away in the cabinets. The literature from 



