14 PEOCEEDIKGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



RePOET OE THE LiBEAEY AND MuSEUM COMMITTEE. 



Lihrary^ 



Since the last Anniversary Meeting many valuable additions 

 have been made to the Library both by donation and by purchase. 



As Donations the Library has received about 152 volumes of 

 separately published works and Survey Reports, and about 292 

 pamphlets and separate impressions of Memoirs, also about 149 

 volumes and 80 detached parts of the publications of various 

 Societies, and 18 volumes of independent Periodicals presented by 

 their respective Editors or Publishers, besides 17 volumes of News- 

 papers of various kinds. This will constitute a total addition to 

 the Society's Library of about 352 volumes and 292 pamphlets. 



Of Maps, Plans, &c., Geological and otherwise, the number pre- 

 sented during the past year has not been great. They include sheets 

 of the maps of the Geological Surveys of Norway, Saxony, Italy, 

 and Japan ; some sheets of the Ordnance Survey Map ; and maps 

 of some Mining Districts in Australia and South Africa. 



The Books and Maps above referred to have been received from 

 173 personal Donors, the Editors or Publishers of 20 Periodicals, 

 and 190 Societies, Surveys, and other Public Bodies, making, in all, 

 383 Donors. 



By purchase, on the recommendation of the Standing Library 

 Committee, the Library has received the addition of 41 volumes of 

 books, and of 93 parts (making about 27 volumes) of various 

 Periodicals, besides 16 parts of certain works published serially. 

 Of the Geological Survey Map of France 19 sheets, and of the 

 smaller Geological Map of Erance, by MM. Yasseur and Carez, 7 

 sheets have been obtained by purchase, besides a Mineral Map of 

 the district of Beusberg and llunderoth. 



The cost of Books, Periodicals, and Maps purchased during the 

 year 1889 was ^63 Os. 6c?., and of Binding =£83 3s. ^d., making 

 a total of £146 4s. M. 



Several of the Periodicals in the Library arc still in an incomplete 

 condition. Inquiry is being made as to the possibility and the cost 

 of filling the existing gaps ; and as there can be no doubt of the 

 desirability of the Serial Works in the Library being complete, it is 

 recommended that some ]3rovision in excess of former years be made 

 in the Estimates, so as to allow of the purchase of the Volumes 

 necessary to complete the sets. 



Museum, 



During the past year the following additions have been made to 

 the Society's Museum : — 



1. Fourteen specimens of Gold-bearing Eocks from the De Kaap 



