DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 



127 



Porifera — Spongida (Gallery 10). — Some Sponges from the 

 Inferior Oolite, part of the Slatter Collection, have been 

 incorporated. 



Number of specimens registered, 115. 



Protozoa. — Foraminifera (Gallery 10 \ Some Cretaceous 

 and Tertiary specimens, figured and described in the Journal 

 of the Royal Microscopical Society for 1894 and 1896, have 

 been incorporated in the collection. 



Number of specimens registered, 354. 



C— Plants. 



Fossil Plants (Gallery 10). — An additional collection of 

 Wealden Plants, from the neighbourhood of Hastings, has 

 been obtained from Mr. Philip Rufibrd. These have been 

 registered and incorporated with the Jurassic plants in this 

 Gallery. 



A small collection of Kimeridgian plants from Wiirtemberg 

 has also been registered and added to the series. 



Number of plants registered, 268. 



IL- Geological De])artment Library {Gallery 9). 



The additions to the Library during the past year, by 

 donation, exchange, or purchase, have been stamped, and 

 catalogue-slips prepared. 



Accessions to the Library. 



Presented. 



Pur- 

 chased. 



Total. 



New Books and Pamphlets - 

 Continuations _ - - - 

 Maps ------ 



121 

 203 

 157 



178 



137 



146 



299 

 340 

 303 



Total - . - 



481 



461 



942 



New slips written, 528. 



Number of volumes bound, 116. 



The continued growth of the Library, for which additional 

 new presses have lately been provided, has necessitated an 

 entire revision of the original plan of spacing out the cases, 

 which was inelastic, and the adoption of the scheme of 

 arrangement followed in the General Library, which enables 

 books to be moved onwards without the necessity of re-press- 

 inarking, 



