﻿ANNUAL 
  REPOBT. 
  vii 
  

  

  assistance 
  to 
  Fellows 
  wishing 
  to 
  make 
  use 
  of 
  the 
  Society's 
  collections 
  

   for 
  stratigraphical 
  purposes. 
  

  

  As 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  collections 
  of 
  Foreign 
  Specimens 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  

   illustrate 
  papers 
  in 
  the 
  Transactions, 
  Proceedings, 
  and 
  Quarterly 
  

   Journal 
  of 
  the 
  Society, 
  and 
  as 
  others 
  are 
  from 
  localities 
  described 
  or 
  

   alluded 
  to 
  in 
  those 
  memoirs, 
  Mr. 
  Horner 
  compiled 
  a 
  classified 
  list 
  of 
  

   the 
  papers 
  in 
  the 
  Society's 
  Publications 
  relating 
  to 
  Foreign 
  Geology, 
  

   giving 
  references 
  to 
  specimens 
  in 
  the 
  Foreign 
  Collections 
  from 
  the 
  

   same 
  localities. 
  This 
  Catalogue 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  copied 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Stair, 
  

   so 
  far 
  as 
  Europe 
  is 
  concerned, 
  and 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  finished 
  as 
  soon 
  as 
  cir- 
  

   cumstances 
  will 
  permit. 
  

  

  The 
  drawers 
  containing 
  the 
  Sharpe 
  Collection 
  of 
  Mollwsca 
  have 
  

   been 
  furnished 
  with 
  glazed 
  lining, 
  and 
  a 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Foreign 
  

   specimens 
  contained 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  has 
  been 
  commenced. 
  

  

  The 
  numerous 
  additions 
  lately 
  made 
  to 
  the 
  Foreign 
  Collections 
  

   necessitated, 
  two 
  years 
  ago, 
  the 
  provision 
  of 
  some 
  new 
  cabinets, 
  but 
  

   these 
  have 
  long 
  since 
  been 
  filled. 
  This 
  year 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  about 
  120 
  

   drawers 
  in 
  the 
  recess 
  in 
  the 
  Lower 
  Museum 
  was 
  obtained 
  by 
  elimi- 
  

   nating 
  the 
  useless 
  rock-specimens 
  from 
  the 
  British 
  Collection. 
  These 
  

   drawers 
  are 
  now 
  almost 
  all 
  occupied, 
  and 
  the 
  question 
  of 
  providing 
  

   more 
  space 
  for 
  Foreign 
  specimens 
  will 
  soon 
  command 
  the 
  attention 
  

   of 
  the 
  Council 
  once 
  more. 
  Several 
  of 
  the 
  drawers 
  here 
  alluded 
  to 
  

   have 
  been 
  filled 
  with 
  valuable 
  collections 
  of 
  rock-specimens, 
  which 
  

   have 
  been 
  removed 
  from 
  the 
  Upper 
  Museum 
  and 
  arranged 
  in 
  the 
  

   recess 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Horner, 
  in 
  close 
  proximity 
  and 
  with 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  

   typical 
  collection 
  of 
  rocks 
  formed 
  by 
  that 
  gentleman 
  four 
  years 
  ago. 
  

   Most 
  of 
  the 
  above-mentioned 
  progress 
  in 
  tableting, 
  naming, 
  and 
  

   arranging 
  Foreign 
  specimens 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  during 
  the 
  latter 
  portion 
  

   of 
  the 
  year, 
  during 
  which 
  time 
  the 
  staff 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  has 
  been 
  

   raised 
  to 
  its 
  former 
  strength 
  by 
  the 
  appointment, 
  last 
  November, 
  of 
  

   Mr. 
  Horace 
  Woodward 
  as 
  a 
  temporary 
  Assistant 
  in 
  the 
  Library 
  and 
  

   Museum. 
  Mr. 
  Stair, 
  who 
  has 
  proved 
  a 
  very 
  efficient 
  Assistant 
  since 
  

   his 
  engagement 
  in 
  March 
  1860, 
  has 
  recently 
  resigned 
  his 
  post 
  in 
  

   consequence 
  of 
  having 
  received 
  a 
  Civil 
  Service 
  appointment, 
  and 
  it 
  

   therefore 
  becomes 
  extremely 
  desirable 
  to 
  appoint 
  as 
  soon 
  as 
  possible 
  

   a 
  competent 
  successor. 
  

  

  The 
  Committee 
  cannot 
  conclude 
  this 
  Report 
  without 
  drawing 
  the 
  

   attention 
  of 
  the 
  Council 
  to 
  the 
  unremitting 
  zeal 
  and 
  continuous 
  

   labour 
  bestowed 
  upon 
  the 
  rearrangement 
  of 
  the 
  Society's 
  Collections 
  

   by 
  Mr. 
  Horner, 
  who 
  has 
  spent 
  several 
  hours 
  almost 
  daily 
  in 
  actual 
  

   work 
  in 
  the 
  Museum. 
  

  

  W. 
  J. 
  HAMILTON. 
  

   ROBERT 
  W. 
  MYLNE. 
  

   J. 
  PRESTWICH. 
  

   T. 
  WILTSHIRE. 
  

  

  