XX PEOCEEDLN'GS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [April I914, 



of Fiords ' ; Dr. C. D. Walcott's monograph on the Cambrian 

 Brachiopoda ; Dr. F. R. C. Reed's monograph on the Ordovician 

 & Silurian Fossils of the Central Himalayas ; Mr. H. M. Cadell's 

 ' Story of the Forth ' ; and the second volume of the ' Text-Book of 

 Petrology (the Sedimentary Rocks),' by Dr. F. H. Hatch & Mr. R. 

 H. Rastall ; the Geological Survey Memoirs on the Geology of the 

 Country around Winchester & Stockbridge, on the Geology of 

 Dartmoor, on the Geology of the Country around Ivybridge & 

 Modbury, on the Concealed Coalfield of Yorkshire & Nottingham- 

 shire, on the Geology of the Country around Newton Abbot, on 

 the Geology of Ben Wyvis, Cairn Chuinneag, etc. on the Geology 

 of Upper Strathspey, Gaick, & the Forest of Atholl, and on the 

 Geology of the Fannich Mountains, etc. as also the ' Records of 

 London Wells.' Three British Museum (Natural History) Cata- 

 logues were received during the year : namely, those of the Marine 

 Reptiles of the Oxford Clay (part 2), of the Cretaceous Plants, 

 and of the Living & Fossil Species of Pisidium. 



In addition, numerous publications were received from the 

 Departments of Mines and Geological Survey Departments of the 

 Dominion of Canada, of the Provinces of Ontario and British 

 Columbia, of the Provinces of the Cape of Good Hope and the 

 Transvaal, of the various States of the Commonwealth of Australia, 

 and of the Dominion of New Zealand ; also from the Geological 

 Survey Departments of India, Mysore, Egypt, the Sudan, Belgium, 

 Holland, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Bohemia, Russia, and Norway; 

 from the United States Geological Survey, and from the inde- 

 pendent State Surveys of Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, New York, Ohio, 

 and Oklahoma. Series of valuable Reports were presented by the 

 Colonial Office and the Home Office. 



The Books and Maps enumerated in the foregoing paragraphs 

 were the gift of 156 Government Departments and other Public 

 Bodies ; of 181 Societies and Editors of Periodicals ; and of 156 

 Personal Donors. 



The Purchases, made on the recommendation of the standing 

 Library Committee, included 38 Volumes and 50 detached Parts of 

 separately published Works, and 38 Volumes and 27 detached Parts 

 of Works published serially. 



The Expenditure incurred in connexion with the Library during 

 the year under review was as follows : — 



£ s. d. 



Books, Periodicals, etc. purchased 102 18 8 



Binding of Books and Mounting of Maps .. . 122 5 11 



Total £225 4 7 



The retirement on pension of the former Assistant Librarian in 

 May, and the much-needed reorganization of the Library have 

 necessarily delayed the preparation of the Record of Geological 



