Xii PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1898^ 



Repoet oe the Library and Museum Committee for 1897. 



Your Committee are able to state that tlie additions made to the 

 Library during the past twelve months were in no respect inferior, 

 either in number or interest, to the acquisitions of previous years. 



During 1897 the Library received, by Donation, 96 Volumes of 

 separately published works, 500 Pamphlets and detached Parts of 

 works, 120 Yolumes and 114 detached Parts of serial publications 

 (Transactions, Memoirs, Proceedings, etc.), and 16 Volumes of 

 Newspapers. The total number of accessions to the Library by 

 Donation is thus seen to amount to 232 Volumes, 500 Pamphlets, 

 and 114 detached Parts. Moreover, 149 Sheets of Maps have been 

 presented by various Donors. 



Attention may be directed to such gifts, among others, as the 

 Maps presented by the Imperial Geological Survey of Japan ; those 

 of the Geological Surveys of Hesse-Darmstadt and Rumania ; the 

 lithographed sheets of the Index Map of the Geological Survey of 

 England and Wales ; the Killean and Golspie sheets of the Geological 

 Survey Map of Scotland; and the photographic reproductions of 

 certain of William Smith's maps, presented by the Science and Art 

 Department, through Professor Judd. 



Turning from Maps to Books, the following may be especially 

 mentioned : — Sir Archibald Geikie's ' Ancient Volcanoes of Great 

 Britain ' ; the British Museum Catalogues : Fossil Cephalopoda, 

 Part 3, and Tertiary MoUusca, Part 1 : Australasia ; 44 Memoirs 

 presented by Prof. Stanislas Meunier ; 30 Memoirs presented by 

 Prof. A. Koch; 11 by Prof. G. A. J. Cole ; and 12 by M. P. Mourlon. 

 Moreover, Mrs. A. H. Green presented 12 Pamphlets, several Maps, 

 and 13 Geological Photographs of New South Wales from the 

 Library of her deceased husband ; and the Director-General of 

 H.M. Geological Survey enriched the Society's Library with a 

 duplicate set of 100 Survey Memoirs. 



Lady Prestwich presented a fine portrait in oils of the late 

 Sir Joseph Prestwich, and, with the generous donor's entire approval, 

 the portrait has been hung in the Meeting Poom. 



The Books, Maps, etc. enumerated above were the gift of 170 

 Personal Donors, 114 Government Departments and other Public 

 Bodies, and 176 Societies and Editors of Periodicals. 



The Purchases made on the recommendation of the Standing 

 Library Committee amounted to 46 Volumes and 18 Parts of 

 separately published works, 28 Volumes and 17 Parts of works 

 published serially, and 14 Sheets of Maps. 



The total Expenditure incurred in connexion with the Library 

 during the past twelve months is as follows : — 



£ s. d. 



Books, Periodicals, etc. purchased 81 9 10 



Binding of Books and Mounting of Maps .... 95 5 5 



=£176 15 3 



