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numerous to particularize in this place, were received from the 

 Geological Surveys of India, the Cape of Good Hope, the Transvaal, 

 Egypt, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Rumania, j^ew York, 

 Maryland, Yermont, the United States, and Sao Paulo. Prof. H. 

 de Dorlodot presented 28 reprints of his papers from various 

 publications. 



The Books and Maps, enumerated above, were the gift of 138 

 Government Departments and other Public Bodies ; of 184 Societies 

 and Editors of Periodicals ; and of 225 Personal Donors. 



The Purchases, made on the recommendation of the standing 

 Library Committee, included 24 Yolumes and 4 Detached Parts of 

 separately-published Works ; 31 Yolumes and 9 Parts of Works 

 published serially ; and 12 Sheets of Geological Maps. 



The Expenditure incurred in connexion with the Library during 

 the Year 1907 was as follows : — 



£ s. d. 



Books, Periodicals, etc. purchased 64 17 6 



Binding of Books and Mounting of Maps .... 89 8 2 



£154 5 8 



With regard to the Card-Catalogue of the Library, Mr. C. D. 

 Sherborn reports as follows : — 



* The editing of the Card-Catalogue has now reached the letter L, Progress 

 was interrupted in the autumn for two months (as must yearly happen in 

 future) by the preparation, checking, and sorting-in of the 7500 cards furnished 

 by the Annual List of Geological Literature received by the Society during 

 1906. This was all incorporated by October. It is hoped that early in 1909 

 the present material, jplus that in the 1907 List (to be issued about June 1908) 

 will be in order, and the literature previous to 1894 will then be regularly 

 taken in hand as originally planned, till the Card-Catalogue in the Library of 

 the Geological Society of London will eventually provide a complete reference- 

 index to all geological, mineralogical, palseozoological, and palseobotanical 

 literature since 1800, Mr. Alec Field has, during the past year, collected 

 together, had bound, and catalogued all the unbound authors' copies, etc. (some 

 400 volumes), and the cards have been indexed and incorporated in the Card- 

 Catalogue.' 



Museum. 



For the purpose of study and comparison, the Society's Collections 

 were visited on 27 occasions during the year, the contents of 

 87 drawers being thus examined. The permission of the Council 

 having been duly obtained, about 155 specimens were lent during 

 1907 to various investigators. 



No expenditure has been incurred in connexion with the Museum 

 during the past year. 



A most valuable collection of specimens from the Cambrian 

 Glacial Deposits of South Australia has been presented by the 

 Eev. Walter Howchin, F.G.S., Lecturer in Geology in the Uni- 

 versity of Adelaide. 



