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ITI. — Printing of Labels, 



The Museum Printer continues to devote one day each 

 week to the preparation of labels for the Department of 

 Geology ; but a Boy Attendant in the Department composes 

 and prints most of the labels, and has this year prepared 

 upwards of 774 (and 3,188 prints of these). 



TV .—Exchanges and Duplicates. 



Exchanges of plaster casts and duplicate fossils have been 

 made with the following institutions : — Surveyors' Institu- 

 tion, London ; Australian Museum, Sydney ; National 

 Museum of Natural History, Paris ; University of Poitiers ; 

 University of Vienna; Hochschule, Leoben ; Senckenberg 

 Museum, Frankfurt ; United States National Museum, 

 Washington ; and American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York. Small exchanges have also been made with 

 Messrs. R. Kidston, A. Piret, and E. Mascke. 



Duplicate fossils have been presented to the Universities 

 of Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Liverpool. Small duplicates for 

 purposes of research have also been supplied to Mr. E. S. 

 Goodrich, Mr. C. Jooss, Dr. H. C. Sorby, and Mr. C. S. Tomes. 



V. — Departmental Library. 



The additions to the Library, which have been registered, 

 stamped, catalogued, and press-marked, comprise 286 new 

 works and pamphlets, of which 164 were purchased and 

 122 presented ; 220 volumes and 313 parts of serials in pro- 

 gress, of which 55 volumes and 176 parts were purchased 

 and 165 volumes and 137 parts were presented ; 81 maps, of 

 which 4 sheets were purchased and 77 sheets presented ; and 

 20 photographs and 6 sheets of diagrams, which were 

 purchased. 135 volumes have been bound. 



Progress has been made in preparing a shelf-index of the 

 separate works. 



A new map-case, to which the British Geological Survey 

 maps have been transferred, has been provided to replace one 

 of the library tables. 



VI. — Publications. 



The Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of 

 the Fayum has been published. The MSS. of the Catalogues 

 of Fossil Rodentia, Marine Reptiles of the Oxford Clay, and 

 Fossil Fishes (Supplement) have made progress. 



The MS. of a new Guide Book to the Fossil Invertebrate 

 Animals is also in progress. 



A new List of Casts and Moulds of Fossils in the 

 Department of Geology has been printed and issued. 



