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of the southern headlands of Cornwall and of the north-western 

 extremity of Scotland. 



Rejport of the Library and Museum Committee. 

 Library. 



The greater part of the surplus volumes and pamphlets belonging 

 to the Greenough Bequest, which remained after the distribution last 

 year, have been sent to the Library of the Geological Survey of India, 

 at Calcutta, in accordance with a resolution to that effect. 



The increased number of books, and more especially of periodical 

 publications (the latter now in great part consisting of a long series 

 of volumes), has rendered necessary their being re-arranged on the 

 shelves. At present, portions of the most important periodicals are 

 placed on separate shelves, and even in different rooms, — a condition 

 of things which must be remedied as soon as possible, but which 

 can only be done with much care and labour. 



A list, printed in alphabetical form, is now highly desirable, of the 

 books and maps which have been received since 1854 ; including 

 those bequeathed by the late G. B. Greenough, Esq. Your Committee 

 respectfully recommend that this be done at an early convenience. 



The valuable Index, prepared by Mr. Ormerod, was printed and 

 pubHshed in the course of last autumn. Fifty copies have been 

 sold; but more than one hundred gentlemen entered their names 

 as subscribers, many of whom, however, have not as yet demanded 

 their copies. 



Your Committee beg to suggest a revision of the List of British 

 and Foreign Institutions receiving grants of the Quarterly Journal. 



The many Maps received in 1858-9 have been mounted, when 

 they required it, and are arranged in appropriate cases. Amongst 

 the Maps lately added to the Library, we may mention particularly 

 Mybie's Geological and Topographical Map of London, some sheets 

 of Yon Dechen's Geological Map of E-henish Prussia, some sheets of 

 the Survey of Portugal, the Maps published by the Middle Rhine 

 Geological Society, and Col. Jervis's Geological Map of the Crimea. 



We notice with much pleasure a new and important class of 

 donations to our Library, — that of photographs (stereoscopic and 

 ordinary) of Geological scenery, and of fossils. We refer to those of 

 the Basalt, in the Walsall Quarries, presented by Mr. Twamley ; of 

 Purbeck and Portland, presented by Mr. Thompson, of Weymouth ; 

 of the Nototherium from Australia ; and of some Fossil Fish-teeth 

 from Nova Scotia. 



Museum. 



The numerous donations of rock-specimens, minerals, and organic 

 remains which have been received during the past year, and parti- 

 cularly from abroad, admit, for the most part, of convenient dispo- 

 sition upon our shelves ; some, however, must for the present be 

 placed aside for want of room. 



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