ANNUAL EEPOET. Ill 



specimens illustrative of the fossils of the following formations : — 

 Tertiary of the Vienna Basin, Middle Chalk, Aptian, Feocomian, Kim- 

 meridge Clay, Upper and Lower Lias, Rhsetic, the marine members 

 of the Upper Trias, the Muschelkalk, and the Upper and Lower 

 Silurian, especially the Primordial zone of Bohemia. 



Dr. Duncan has now named aU the specimens of the fossil Madre- 

 poraria in the Poreign Collection. 



The follomng table contains a summary of the work done in the 

 Museum during the past year, in naming and arranging collections 

 of fossils : — 



Drawers. 



England Pliocene 24 



Belgium Tourtia 3 



Italy Miocene and Pliocene . . 9 



Malta Miocene 1 



Sinai and Arabia . . Cretaceous 2 



Africa Jurassic and Triassic . . 6 



Miscellaneous (Syria, Andes, New Zealand, &c.) 1 



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In pursuance of a special resolution and grant of the Council, two 

 mahogany glass-top cases have been provided for the Collection of 

 Elephants' teeth named by the late Dr. Palconer, at a cost of £6 10s. 

 They are placed in the window-recesses of the Lower Museum. 



In the opinion of the Committee the Society is under considerable 

 obligations to Dr. Duncan for having completed the arrangement of 

 the foreign Madreporaria ; and they also consider that Mr. Tate has 

 satisfactorily discharged his duties as Assistant in the Museum 

 Department during the past year. 



The Committee beg to recommend that a standing Committee be 

 appointed to superintend the Museum and to report to the Council 

 from time to time. 



J. GWYN" JEFFREYS. 

 THOS. WILTSHIRE. 

 ROBERT ETHERIDGE. 



The Library. 



The Council having adopted the recommendations made by the 

 Committee at their last Annual Meeting (viz. that a larger sum 

 should be expended annually in the purchase of books than had 

 previously been voted for that purpose, and that a standing Library 

 Committee should be appointed), additions of the value of ^131 15s. 8d. 

 have, during the past year, been made to the Library, exclusive of 

 ^44 7s. 2cl. expended in binding and map -mounting. 



The chief works added to the Library by purchase are De 

 Biainville's * Osteographie,' the Palseontological Memoirs of the 

 Geological Survey of California, Ehrenberg's ' Microgeologie,' 

 Geinitz's *Die Steinkohlen Deutschland's und anderer Lander 

 Europa's/ Watelet's < Description des Plantes Fossiles du Bassin de 



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