11 ANNIVEESAET MEETING. 



The Council have also to announce that Dr. C. F. Fischer of 

 Auckland, New Zealand, presented to the Society the remainder of 

 the copies (in all 291) of a translation made by him of Messrs. 

 Hochstetter and Petermann's 'Geology of New Zealand,' accom- 

 panied by an atlas of six maps. The Council decided to sell these 

 books to' the Fellows at a low price. 



The Council have awarded the "Wollaston Medal to Prof. A. C. 

 Eamsay, F.E.S., F.G.S., &c., in recognition of his valuable services 

 to physical and stratigraphical geology, and with especial reference to 

 his numerous and original geological essays relating to Wales and 

 the adjacent counties, and his surveys. of that district. , 



The Balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Furid has been 

 awarded to Robert Etheridge, Esq., F.G.S., to aid him in prosecuting 

 his work on the Fossils of the British Islands, stratigraphically 

 arranged. 



The Council have the gratification of reporting that an Appeal 

 against the Assessment of Parochial Eates was on the 13th of this 

 month decided by the proper Tribunal in favour of the Society, by 

 which their total exemption from such imposts has been established. 



Report of (he Library and Museum Committee, 1870-71. 



iAhrary. 



The Standing Library-Committee have continued from time to 

 time to make additions to the Library by the purchase of such books 

 as they thought would prove useful to the Fellows ; and amongst 

 those purchased since the last Anniversary Meeting, the following 

 important works may be cited : — 



Berendt's ' Geologie des Kurischen Haffes und seiner TJmgebung ;' 

 Blanford's ' Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia ;' 

 C. F. Naumann's ' Elemente der Mineralogie ;' Landgrebe's ' Mine- 

 ralogie der Yulcane;' Percy's 'Metallurgy of Lead;' Veith's 

 'Deutsches Bergworterbuch ;' Issel's 'Malacologia del Mar Eosso ;' 

 Zittel's ' Palseontologische Mittheilungen aus dem Museum des 

 Konigl. Bayerischen Staates;' Mayr's 'Ameisen des baltischen 

 Bernsteins ;' Weiss's ' Fossile Flora der jiingsten Steinkohlenforma- 

 tion und des Eothliegenden im Saar-Ehein-Gebiete ;' and conti- 

 nuations of Pictet's 'Materiaux pour la Paleontologie Suisse;* 

 Schimper's ' Paleontologie Vegetale ;' Milne-Edwards's ' Eecherches 

 Anatomiques et Paleontologiques pour servir a I'Histoire des 

 Oiseaux fossiles de la France;' Ooster's ' Protozoe Helvetica;' 

 Quenstedt's ' Petrefactenkunde Deutschlands ;' the < Palseontogra- 

 phica;' the 'Paleontologie Frangaise;' and Eeeve's 'Conchologia 

 Iconica.' The cost of books purchased by the Society during the 

 past year was .£37 7s. lid., and of binding ^33 135. 7c?. 



A great number of valuable books have been presented to the 

 Society's Library during the past year, including, besides periodicals 

 and the publications of learned Societies, many separate works of im- 

 portance, such as :— 



* Gsea Norvegica,' Parts 1-3 (1838-50), from the Eoyal Norwe- 



