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The total Xumber of Accessions to the Library by Donation is 

 thus found to amount to 596 Volumes, 402 Pamphlets, and 79 

 Detached Parts. Moreover, 20-i Sheets of Geological Maps were 

 presented to the Library, including 10 Folios of the ' Geologic 

 Atlas of the United States ' ; 149 Sheets received from the Geological 

 Survey of England & "Wales and 34 Sheets from the Geological Survey 

 of Scotland (the majority in both cases being on the 6-inch scale) ; 

 5 Sheets from the Geological Survey of Japan ; 4 Sheets from the 

 Geological Survey of Sweden ; 3 Sheets from that of Hungary, as 

 also a mineral-occurrence map of that kingdom presented by the 

 Ministry of Finance ; and 8 Sheets of the Geological Map of Xova 

 Scotia, from the Canadian Geological Survey. Dr. F. Oswald pre- 

 sented his Geological Map of Armenia ; Mr. J. P. Howley presented 

 his Geological Map of Xewfoundland ; Mr. W. A. E. Ussher pre- 

 sented his Geological Map of Devon (from the ^ Victoria History of 

 the Counties of England') ; and Mr. Xorton Griffith his mineral- 

 occurrence map of a portion of the Semipalatinsk Territory (Siberia). 



Among the Books and Pamphlets mentioned in the foregoing 

 paragraph, especial attention may be directed to the following 

 works : — Prof. A. Lacroix's ' Eruption du Vesuve en Avril 1906 ' ; 

 Prof. J. P. Iddings's ' Eock-Minerals, their Chemical & Physical 

 Characters, etc' : Vol. II, Part I, of the new Edition of Prof. H. 

 Eosenbusch's ' Mikroskopische Physiographic der Miueralien & 

 Gesteine ' ; the second edition of Prof. R. Beck's ' Lehre von der 

 Erzlagerstatten ' ; Prof. J. J. Stevenson's ' Carboniferous of the 

 Appalachian Basin ' ; Prof. A. Fritsch's ' Problematica silurica ' 

 and ' Miscellanea palaeontologica ' ; ' A Journey through England & 

 Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784,' by E. Faujas de St. Fond, edited 

 with Xotes & a Memoir of the Author by Sir Archibald Geikie ; 

 Mr. A. P. Low's Eeport on the Dominion Government Expedition 

 to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands : Mr. H. B. Woodward's new 

 edition of Stanford's Geological Atlas of Great Britain & Ireland ; 

 Prof. R. Zeiller's work on the Coal-Measure & Permian Flora of 

 Blanzy & Le Creusot; Dr. L. Waagen's work on the Lamelli- 

 branchs of the Fachycardia-TuEs of the Seiser Aim; Prof. J. 

 Perner s description of the Silurian Gasteropoda of Bohemia (Vol. IV 

 of the continuation of Barrande's ' Systeme silurien ') ; Dr. Bailey 

 Willis's & Mr. Eliot Blackwelder's 'Eesearch in China ' (Publication 

 Xo. 54 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington) ; Dr. E. F. 

 Scharffs ' European Animals : their Geological History & Geo- 

 graphical Distribution ' ; Part I of Prof. Hang's ' Traite de 

 Geologic ' ; Vol. I (Geology) of the !N"atural History of the Xational 

 Antarctic Expedition ; Sir Boverton Eedwood's ' Petroleum & its 

 Products ' ; Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne's 'Hills & VaUeys of Torquay'; 

 the Geological- Survey Memoii's on the Structure of the Xorth-West 

 Highlands of Scotland, on the Land's End, Xewquay, Falmouth & 

 Truro, Wellington & Chard, Hungerford & Xewbury ; also those on 

 the Leicestershire & South Derbyshire Coalfield ; on the Oil-Shales 

 of the Lothians ; on Gower & the Swansea District, on the Limerick 

 District, and on Islay. Moreover, many valuable publications, too 



