﻿11 
  ANNIVERSARY 
  MEETING. 
  

  

  The 
  Council 
  have 
  to 
  announce 
  the 
  completion 
  of 
  Vol. 
  XIX. 
  of 
  the 
  

   Journal, 
  and 
  the 
  publication 
  of 
  the 
  First 
  Part 
  of 
  "Vol. 
  XX. 
  

  

  For 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  hastening 
  the 
  renaming 
  and 
  rearranging 
  of 
  the 
  

   specimens 
  in 
  the 
  Foreign 
  Collections, 
  the 
  Council 
  appointed, 
  in 
  

   November 
  last, 
  Mr. 
  Horace 
  Woodward 
  as 
  a 
  temporary 
  Assistant 
  in 
  

   the 
  Library 
  and 
  Museum. 
  

  

  The 
  completion 
  of 
  the 
  Greenough 
  Geological 
  Map 
  has 
  been 
  delayed 
  

   by 
  unavoidable 
  causes 
  ; 
  but 
  the 
  Council 
  have 
  to 
  announce 
  that 
  Sheet 
  

   JNo. 
  6 
  is 
  now 
  ready 
  for 
  distribution 
  and 
  sale, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  remaining 
  

   sheets 
  are 
  expected 
  to 
  be 
  shortly 
  prepared. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  more 
  than 
  probable 
  that 
  a 
  large 
  proportion 
  of 
  the 
  Fellows 
  of 
  

   the 
  Society 
  are 
  little 
  aware 
  of 
  the 
  many 
  resources 
  for 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  

   Geology 
  which 
  the 
  collections 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  afford 
  in 
  its 
  different 
  

   departments 
  of 
  Library, 
  Maps, 
  and 
  Collections 
  of 
  specimens 
  of 
  Mine- 
  

   rals, 
  Rocks, 
  and 
  Fossils. 
  The 
  Council, 
  therefore, 
  think 
  it 
  advisable 
  to 
  

   bring 
  before 
  the 
  general 
  body 
  of 
  the 
  Fellows 
  on 
  the 
  present 
  occasion 
  

   a 
  somewhat 
  detailed 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  advantages 
  they 
  possess 
  on 
  their 
  

   own 
  premises 
  for 
  studying 
  different 
  branches 
  of 
  geological 
  science. 
  

   The 
  apartments 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  are 
  open 
  daily 
  from 
  ten 
  in 
  the 
  morn- 
  

   ing 
  to 
  five 
  in 
  the 
  evening, 
  and 
  the 
  paid 
  officers 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  are 
  in 
  

   attendance 
  daily, 
  except 
  on 
  Sundays. 
  

  

  The 
  facilities 
  of 
  study 
  are 
  these: 
  — 
  A 
  large 
  library 
  of 
  books 
  and 
  maps, 
  

   with 
  a 
  copious 
  catalogue 
  of 
  both, 
  which 
  may 
  be 
  consulted 
  on 
  the 
  

   spot, 
  or, 
  with 
  certain 
  necessary 
  exceptions, 
  lent 
  out. 
  Illustrative 
  

   specimens 
  may 
  be 
  laid 
  before 
  any 
  Fellow 
  who 
  may 
  wish 
  to 
  examine 
  

   them 
  at 
  his 
  leisure 
  with 
  the 
  assistance 
  of 
  books. 
  For 
  the 
  lists 
  of 
  the 
  

   extensive 
  library 
  of 
  books 
  and 
  the 
  collections 
  of 
  maps, 
  the 
  Council 
  

   refer 
  to 
  the 
  Catalogue 
  recently 
  published, 
  copies 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  sold 
  to 
  

   the 
  Fellows 
  for 
  6s. 
  6d., 
  and 
  they 
  will 
  now 
  give 
  a 
  brief 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  

   various 
  collections 
  of 
  specimens 
  we 
  possess. 
  

  

  I. 
  We 
  have 
  a 
  good 
  and 
  useful 
  series 
  of 
  the 
  simple 
  minerals, 
  arranged 
  

   after 
  the 
  fourth 
  edition 
  of 
  Phillips's 
  ' 
  Mineralogy,' 
  by 
  Allan, 
  a 
  copy 
  of 
  

   which 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  Library, 
  with 
  marginal 
  references 
  to 
  the 
  specimens 
  

   in 
  our 
  collection. 
  

  

  II. 
  We 
  have 
  a 
  valuable 
  series 
  of 
  Recent 
  Shells, 
  named 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   Woodward, 
  and 
  arranged 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  system 
  followed 
  in 
  his 
  

   ' 
  Manual 
  of 
  the 
  Mollusca,' 
  a 
  copy 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  Library, 
  with 
  

   marginal 
  references 
  to 
  our 
  collections. 
  

  

  III. 
  We 
  have 
  a 
  large 
  series 
  of 
  typical 
  specimens 
  of 
  Rocks, 
  British 
  

   and 
  Foreign, 
  accompanied 
  by 
  a 
  manuscript 
  Catalogue 
  made 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   Horner. 
  It 
  includes 
  those 
  rocks 
  which 
  have 
  foreign 
  names, 
  as 
  de- 
  

   scribed 
  in 
  the 
  systematic 
  works 
  of 
  Senft, 
  Cotta, 
  and 
  Coquand 
  ; 
  copies 
  

   of 
  which 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  Library. 
  This 
  collection 
  consists 
  mainly 
  of 
  the 
  

   unstratified 
  rocks 
  ; 
  but 
  it 
  includes 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  the 
  older 
  stra- 
  

   tified 
  rocks, 
  from 
  the 
  Laurentian 
  Gneiss 
  upwards. 
  The 
  Secondary 
  

   and 
  Tertiary 
  rocks 
  can 
  be 
  best 
  seen, 
  as 
  to 
  their 
  lithological 
  characters, 
  

   in 
  the 
  specimens 
  which 
  include 
  fossils, 
  and 
  they 
  therefore 
  can 
  be 
  

   studied 
  in 
  the 
  general 
  stratigraphical 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  Society. 
  But 
  

   endeavours 
  are 
  being 
  made 
  to 
  obtain 
  specimens, 
  for 
  this 
  typical 
  col- 
  

  

  