ANNUAL EEPOET. 



Report of the Libkaey and Museum Committee. 

 Library. 



Since the last Anniversary Meeting a great number of valuable 

 additions have been made to the Library, both by donation and by 

 purchase. 



As Donations the Library has received 110 volumes of separately 

 published works and 278 Pamphlets and separate impressions of 

 Memoirs ; also about 90 volumes and 75 detached parts of the pub- 

 lications of various Societies, and 15 volumes of independent Peri- 

 odicals presented by their respective Editors, besides 10 volumes of 

 JN'ewspapers of different kinds. This will constitute a total addition 

 to the Society's Library, by donation, of about 237 volumes and 278 

 Pamphlets. 



A considerable number of Maps, Plans, and Sections have been 

 added to the Society's collection by presentation from various Geo- 

 logical Surveys, from the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, and from 

 the Prench Depot de la Marine. These amount in all to 160 sheets. 



The Books and Maps just referred to have been received from 

 136 personal Donors, the Editors or Publishers of 15 Periodicals, 

 and 130 Societies, Surveys, or other Public Bodies, making in all 

 281 Donors. 



By Purchase, on the recommendation of the Standing Library 

 Committee, the Library has received the addition of 47 volumes of 

 Books, and of 55 parts (making about 8 volumes) of Periodicals, 

 besides 46 parts of works published serially, the commencements of 

 which were obtained in previous years. Two Sheets of the Geolo- 

 gical Survey Map of Prance have been received during the year. 



The cost of Books and Periodicals during the year 1879 was 

 ^63 13s. 3cZ., and of Binding M2 IQs. Id. The sum of ^11 Is. 

 was also expended for Cards for the preparation of the Catalogue, 

 and for a Library Loan-book, making in all <£157 IO5. 4c^. 



The Books in the Society's Library are in good condition ; and a 

 considerable number of old serial and other works, of which the 

 binding had been damaged by long use, have been rebound or re- 

 paired. The Library continues to be much used by the Pellows of 

 the Society. 



As great inconvenience has been experienced from there being 

 no definite time appointed for the necessary annual cleaning of the 

 Library and the books contained in it, the Library Committee re- 

 commend that the Library be closed annually for this purpose during 

 the first fortnight of the month of September, that being the time 

 when the Society's rooms are least visited by the Fellows. 



