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United States G-eological Survey ; and the G-eological Survey of 

 Canada has presented a number of memoirs of economic 

 importance. 



Numerous Colonial Office Reports have been presented through 

 the kindness of Mr. J. F. N. Green, and it has thus been found 

 possible to complete certain sets of these" pubhcations in the 

 Societ}^'s Library. A series of reports relating to the Mineral 

 Sm-vey of Ceylon has also been presented by Dr. A. K. 

 Coomara s wamy . 



A decrease in the number of new Maps received is again to be 

 noted ; but this year 12 sheets have been received from the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Japan, 2 from that of New South Wales, 2 from 

 that of Scotland, and one each from British Guiana, Mysore, Nor- 

 way, Tasmania, and Tennessee. 



The Donors during the preceding year included 99 Government 

 Departments and other Public Bodies, 103 Societies and Editors 

 of Periodicals, and 113 Personal Donors. 



The Purchases included 38 Volumes and 7 detached Parts of 

 separately published works, and 6 Volumes and 34 detached Parts 

 of works published serially. 



The Expenditure incurred in connexion with the Library dming 

 the 3''ear under review was as follows : — 



£ s. d. 



Books and Periodicals 71 7 3 



Binding and Map-mounting 65 3 11 



Catalogue Cabinets 37 16 



Catalogue Cards ^ 11 3 8 



Total £18o 10 10 



Work on the cataloguing and indexing of the accessions of 1913 

 has been well advanced, and good progress has been made with 

 No. 20 of the * Record of Geological Litemture.' 



With reference to the Card- Catalogue of the Library, a slip was 

 issued with No. "283 of the Quarterly Journal (September 1916), 

 setting forth the progress of Mr. Sherborn's work. Wlien the 

 task of editing the existing material has been accomplished, the 

 Catalogue will be practically complete from the year 1800 to 1912 ; 

 while it contains a large number of entries relating to previous 

 years. The Catalogue includes over a million entries to which 

 reference can be made, and is now contained in 540 drawers of 

 cards under one alphabetical arrangement of authors, subjects, and 

 localities. The recent publication b}^ the Cambridge University 

 Press of the fifteenth volume of the Royal Society's Catalogue of 

 Scientific Literature will entail many further additions to the Card- 

 Catalogue. This new volume ranges from fitting to htslop, and 

 Mr. Sherborn is now engaged on the selection of the geological 

 papers, the transference to cards, and the indexing and incorporation 

 of the titles, etc. of those papers. 



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