DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. I55 



rhe total acquisitions are 

 A. — Vertebeata : 



as follows :- 





By Donation 

 „ Purchase 



- 



8] 

 - 410 



„ Exchange 



- 



43 



B. — Invertebeata : 





, 



By Donation 



: „ Purchase 



„ Exchange 



- - _ 



- 2,039 

 2,861 



- 282 



C. — Plants : 







By Donation 

 „ Purchase 



- 



14 

 113 



D. — Rock specimens : 







By Donation 



- - _ 



7 



„ Purchase 



- 



1 



— 534 



5,182 



127 



Total Acquisitions for 1908 = 5,851 



VIII. — Visitors and Students. 

 The number of visits paid to the Department by students 

 and other persons for the purpose of consultation or study 

 during 1908 was 5,803. 



IX. — Lectures and Demonstrations. 



Ten parties were received in the Galleries of the Department 

 of Geology, and demonstrations were given as follows : — 



February 8th. — The Home Counties Archaeological Society 

 (23 members). Dr. Woodward. 



March 21st. — The National Home Reading Union Circle of 

 Kingston (10 members). Dr. Woodward. 



March 28th. — The South London Entomological and Natural 

 History Society (14 members). Dr. Woodward. 



April 11th. — The Barnet Natural History Society and Field 

 Club (30 members). Dr. Woodward. 



May 27th.— The Vesey Club (22 members). Dr. Woodward. 



June 16th. — Mrs. Morris K. Jessop and party. Dr. Wood- 

 ward. 



June 19th. — Haileybury School (16 members). Dr. Wood 

 ward. 



August 31st. — Mr. Henry Blackman and 20 quarrymen from 

 Battle, Sussex. Dr. Bather. 



November 7th.— The Battersea Field Club (20 members). 

 Dr. Woodward. 



November 2Sth.— The Geologists' Association (23 members). 

 Dr. Woodward. 



Arthur Smith Woodivard. 



February 1st, 1909. 



