^^1* 55-] ANNUAL EEPOKT. xiil 



Report op the Library and Museum Committee for 1898. 



Your Committee have pleasure in stating that the Additions made 

 to the Society's Library during the past year were superior in 

 number, and assuredly not inferior in interest, to the acquisitions 

 recorded in previous annual reports. 



Enumerating, in the first place, the Donations, it is found that the 

 Library received during 1898 no less than 113 Volumes of separately 

 published Works; 517 Pamphlets and detached Parts of Works; 

 174 V«olumes and 95 detached Parts of Serial Publications (Transac- 

 tions, Memoirs, Proceedings, etc.) ; and 17 Volumes of Newspapers. 

 Moreover, 80 Sheets of Maps were presented by various Donors. 



Among the foreign maps may be mentioned Sheets 26 to 37 of 

 the Geologic Atlas of the United States ; 14 Sheets of Maps, with 

 accompanying Descriptions, of the Geological Survey of Finland ; 

 10 Sheets of the Italian Geological Survey Map (Calabria and the 

 Apuan Alps) ; 4 Sheets, with Explanations, of the Hesse-Darmstadt 

 Geological Survey Map ; and 5 Sheets of Maps of the Saxon 

 Geological Survey. 



Erom our own country came 8 Sheets of the 1-inch Map of the 

 Geological Survey of England and Wales ; the Banchory (Kin- 

 cardineshire) Sheet of the Geological Survey Map of Scotland ; and 

 Sir A. Geikie's new Geological Map of England and Wales on the 

 scale of 10 miles to the inch. 



Special attention may be directed to the highly-prized donation 

 made to the Society's Library by Mr. E. W. Harmer, consisting of 

 the manuscript Maps of the Drift of the Eastern Counties of 

 England, drawn up by the late Mr. Searles Wood, Jr., and by 

 himself. 



Turning now from Maps to Books, it is felt that the thanks of 

 the Society are due to Mrs. Topley for the gift of no less than 156 

 Memoirs, Pamphlets, etc. from the Library of the late Mr. W. Topley ; 

 and attention is directed to the following, among other donations : 

 ' Elemente der Gesteinslehre,' by H. Eosenbusch ; ' Manual of 

 Determinative Mineralogy,' by G. J. Brush & S. L. Penfield ; 

 ' Aids in Practical Geology,' 3rd ed., by G. A. J. Cole ; ' Eirst 

 Lessons in Modern Geology,' by the late A. H. Green (edited by 

 J. E. Blake) ; ' Geology for Beginners,' by W. W. Watts ; ' Principles 

 of Stratigraphical Geology,' by J. E. Marr ; the Annual Reports of 

 the Kansas, Maryland, and Canadian Geological Surveys; 14 

 volumes of Memoirs of the Geological Surveys of Sweden, Spain, 

 and other countries. 



The Maps and Books enumerated in the foregoing paragraphs 

 were the gift of 216 Personal Donors, 92 Government Departments 

 and other Public Bodies, and 155 Societies and Editors of 

 Periodicals. 



The Purchases made on the recommendation of the Committee 

 comprised 40 Volumes and 16 detached Parts of separately published 

 Works ; 29 Volumes and 18 detached Parts of Serial Publications ; 

 and 27 Sheets of Maps. 



