part 1] ^ ANXUAL REPORT. XXL 



Report of the Libeary Committee for 1920. 



The Donations received during the jea.v 1920 number 48 Vol- 

 umes of separately published Works, 344 Pamphlets, and 8 detached 

 Parts of Works, also 200 Volumes and 326 detached Parts of Serial 

 Publications, 82 Volumes and 632 Parts of the publications of 

 Geological Surveys and other public bodies, and 17 Volumes of 

 Weekly Periodicals. 



39 sheets of Geological Maps were received during the year. 



The number of accessions by Donation amounts, therefore, to 

 347 Volumes, 344 Pamphlets, and 966 detached Parts. 



Special attention may be drawn to the following works : — 



' Recherches Geologiques & Petrographiques sur le District Minier de 

 Nicolai-Pavda,' by L. Duparc & A. Grosset, text & atlas, 1916 ; ' Resumo da. 

 Geologia do Brasil para acompanliar o Mappa Geologico do Brasil,' by J. C. 

 Branner, 1919 ; ' An Introdtiction to the Study of Fossils,' by H, L.Hawkins, 

 1920; ' Oil-Finding,' by E. H. Cunningham-Craig, 2nd Edition, 1920 ; ' Allge- 

 meine Palaontologie, Geologische Fragen in BiologiscLer Betrachtting,' Parts 

 I & II, by J. Walther, 1919 ; Egypt, Petroleum-Research Bulletins 2, 3, 4, 5, 

 7, & 8 — ' Geological Reports on Oilfields in Egypt & Sinai,' by W. F. Hume 

 & others, 1920; Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 106 — 'North American 

 Early Tertiary Bryozoa,' by F. Canu & R. S. Bassler, 1920 ; ' Japanische 

 Triasfaunen,' by Carl Diener, 1915 ; ' Expedition de la Celebes Centrale — 

 Voyages Geologiques & Geographiques a travers la Celebes Centrale ' (1909- 

 1910), by E. C. Abendanon & others, 3 volumes & atlas, 1916-1918 ; 

 Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Special Reports on the 

 Mineral Resources of Great Britain, vii — Mineral Oil, Kimmeridge Oil-Shale, 

 Lignites, Jets & Gannel Coals, Natural Gas, England & Wales, by Sir 

 Aubrey Strahan & others, 1920 ; xi — ' Iron-Ores of Scotland,' by M. MacGregor 

 & others, 1920; xv — 'Arsenic & Antimony-Ores,' by H. Dewey & others, 

 1920 ; xvi — ' Sand for Open-Hearth Steel Furnaces — Dolomite, Petrography 

 & Chemistry,' by H. H. Thomas & others, 1920 ; ' The Geology of Anglesey,' 

 by E. Greenly, 2 volumes & map, 1919 ; and Memoirs of the Geological 

 Survey of Scotland — ' Mesozoic Rocks of Applecross, Raasay, & North-East. 

 Skye,' by G. W. Lee, 1920. 



The Donors during the preceding jear included 107 Government 

 Departments and other Public Bodies, 118 Societies and Editors- 

 of Periodicals, and 91 Personal Donors. 



During the year exchange of publications, suspended during the 

 war, was resumed with several Societies, Government Departments, 

 and other Institutions on the Continent which had expressed their 

 desire to renew relations with this Society, and had sent the arrears 

 of their Publications to our Librarj^. 



The Purchases included 21 Volumes and 23 detached Parts of 

 Works, and 7 Volumes and 10 detached Parts of Works published 

 serially. 



