IV ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



The preparation of the new Catalogue steadily progresses, and one 

 and a half sheet of the supplementary portion, including the serials, 

 are now in the printer's hands, this being the part most difficult of 

 arrangement. The Catalogue of the Maps is also in hand, but this 

 has not been prepared without much difficulty, as many of the charts 

 already catalogued have had to be disturbed and separated when 

 cataloguing the new. The arrangement of manuscript Sections and 

 Drawings is also in progress ; and as many Maps are now ready, the 

 new Case is also required. In respect to the Ordnance Maps, the 

 revised Maps have not been applied for, as it would be useless to 

 obtain them, until cases for their reception had been purchased ; 

 but the Maps already in possession are put into cases as quickly as 

 they can be prepared for them. Generally it may be stated that 

 the accommodation for the reception of Maps and Dravsdngs is 

 limited and inconvenient, and more especially for those which are 

 kept in portfolios. 



Notices of Donations and of Papers received, as well as of pur- 

 chases, are regularly published in the Quarterly Journal. 



Museum, 



Two new tables have been purchased for supporting the drawers 

 of cabinets when under examination. 



Mr. Gawan has been principally employed in cleaning fossils, 

 securing the loose specimens and labels, and labelling in paint the 

 larger specimens of rocks and boulders, exhibiting glacial action or 

 the footprints of animals. He has also commenced the re-arrange- 

 ment of the Tertiaries, under the direction of Mr. Jones. Everything 

 thus labelled has been catalogued by Mr. Jones, who has also acted 

 upon the suggestion of the last Committee by preparing the inter- 

 leaved copy of Mr. Morris's " Catalogue," presented by the author 

 for the use of the gentlemen willing to assist in the respective palseon- 

 tographical departments, and whose aid would therefore be now of 

 the greatest advantage. 



Of British specimens the donations have principally been con- 

 nected with the carboniferous and cretaceous formations ; and have 

 been placed in the respective drawers. 



Of Foreign specimens, those of Mr. Loftus, received in 1853, 

 have been examined, separated, and put into drawers ; duplicates 

 having been prepared for presentation to the British Museum. The 

 St. Domingo specimens of Col. Henneker have been examined, 

 arranged, and put into drawers ; the duplicates having been sent to 

 the British Museum and the Museum of Economic Geology in 

 Jermyn Street. Mr. Townsend's specimens from Ascension, received 

 in 1853, have been sorted and put into drawers, and the duplicates 

 sent to Jermyn Street. 



In the Upper Museum, the arrangement of the Brazilian, Ceylon, 

 and Chinese specimens has been continued : the specimens of aurife- 

 rous rocks from Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand, pre- 



