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VI. — Departmental Library. 



Arrangement. — Letters relating to the business of the 

 Department have been arranged in order. 



Cataloguing and Press-mnarking. — Proofs of the Library 

 Catalogue have been read and checked against the slip-catalogue 

 in the Department. 



919 volumes and 952 title-slips have been press-marked. 

 All the accessions, including 816 plates, have been registered, 

 catalogued, and stamped. 



Accessions. — 08 volumes of separate works, 31 periodicals 

 (in 405 volumes and parts), 32 mining reports, 3 maps, 1 volume 

 of photographs, and 3 portraits have been added to the 

 Library. These were acquired as follows : — 



By presentation. — 10 volumes of separate works, 11 

 periodicals (in 135 volumes and parts), 34 pamphlets, 

 31 mining reports, 1 volume of photographs, and 

 3 portraits. 

 By purchase. — 52 volumes of separate works, 20 

 periodicals (in 270 volumes and parts), 17 parts of 

 works, and 2 maps. 

 By transfer. — Q volumes of separate works, 5 parts of 

 works, 1 mining report, and 1 map. 



Binding. — 92 volumes have been bound. 



VII. — Publications. 



A new edition (14th) of the Introduction to the Study of 

 Minerals has been issued. 



The following papers, relating to specimens in the collection, 

 have been published in the " Mineralogical Magazine and 

 Journal of the Mineralogical Society," 1910, vol. 15 : — 



" On a Meteoric Stone from Simondium, Cape Colony " : by 

 Dr. G. T. Prior (p. 312). 



" On an Analcite-basalt from Rathjordan, Co. Limerick " : 

 by Dr. G. T. Prior (p. 315). 



" Analyses of Seligmannite, zinciferous Tennantite 

 (' Binnite ' ), and Fuchsite from the Lengenbach quarry, 

 Binnenthal " : by Dr. G. T. Prior (p. 385). 



" On the occurrence of Alstonite and Ullmannite (a species 

 new to Britain) in a Bary tes-witherite vein at the New Brance- 

 peth Colliery, near Durham" : by L. J. Spencer (p. 302). 



" Notes on the weight of the ' Cullinan ' diamond, and on the 

 value of the carat-weight " : by L. J. Spencer (p. 318). 



"A (fifth) list of new mineral names, with an index of 

 authors " ; by L. J. Spencer (p. 415). 



" A camera lucida attachment for the goniometer " : by 

 Dr. G. F. Herbert Smith (p. 387.) 



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