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1800 to 1908 therefore (with the exception of 1884-1894, not yet available), 

 so far as A and B are concerned, will be at the service of the Fellows in the 

 course of the next few months : some little time being required to sort into 

 the cabinets the 40,000 cards resulting from last year's work. A feature in 

 this new material is the marking of absent papers with the words not in this 

 library; for every subject connected with geology, mineralogy, metallurgy, 

 physical geography, and palaeontology has been inserted. This remark can be 

 crossed off, when the Librarian has been authorized to purchase the pamphlet. 

 Further assistance is provided for the searcher, if he will trouble to refer from 

 the not in this library card to that card which records the Transactions 

 or other periodical in which the paper was originally published, for on it he 

 will find recorded the Library in London where the publication can most 

 conveniently be seen. As practically three years' work has been done in one, 

 so as to give the new part a good start, the Fellows must not expect much 

 advance to be made this year, for the work is laborious and exacting.' 



Museum. 



For the purpose of study and comparison, the Society's Collections 

 were visited on 21 occasions during the year, the contents of 

 107 drawers being thus examined. The permission of the Council 

 having been duly obtained, about 23 specimens were lent during 

 1909 to various investigators. 



No expenditure has been incurred in connexion with the Museum 

 during the past year. 



The appended Lists contain the Names 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. 



Alabama. — Geological Survey. Montgomery (Ala.). 

 American Museum of Natural History. New York. 

 Argentina. — Ministerio de Agricultura. Buenos Aires. 

 Australia (S.), etc. See South Australia, etc. 



Austria. — Kaiserlich-Konigliche Geologische Reichsanstalt. Vienna. 

 Bavaria. — Konigliches Bayerisches Oberbergamt. Munich. 

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

 Brussels. 



. Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle. Brussels. 



Bergens Museum. Bergen. 



Berlin. — Konigliche Preussische Akademie der Wissenscbaften. 



Birmingham. University of. 



Bohemia. — Naturwissenschaftlicbe Landesdurchforscbung. Prague. 



. Royal Museum of Natural History. Prague. 



Bristol. — Public Library. 



British Columbia. — Department of Mines. Victoria (B.C.). 



British Guiana. — Department of Mines. Georgetown. 



British South Africa Company. London. 



Buenos Aires. — Museo Nacional de Huenos Aires. 



California. — Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. 



, University of. Berkeley (Cal.). 



Camborne. — Mining School. 



Cambridge (Mass.). — Museum of Comparative Zoology in Harvard College. 



