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The Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund 

 is awarded to Mr. Thomas Sargeant Hall, in recognition of the value 

 of his researches among the Graptolites and other Invertebrate 

 Fossils of Australia, and to aid him in the further study of the 

 Palaeontology of the Southern Hemisphere. 



A moiety of the Balance of the Lyell Geological Fund is awarded 

 to Dr. John William Evans, in recognition of the work done by him 

 in elucidating the Geology and Mineralogy of Kathiawar and other 

 parts of India, and to encourage him in further investigations. 



A moiety of the Balance of the Lyell Geological Fund is awarded to 

 Mr. Alexander McHenry, in recognition of the value of his services 

 in working out the Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of Ireland, and to 

 encourage him in further work. 



Report of the Library an^d Museitm: Committee for 1900. 



Although your Committee are unable to announce that the 

 Additions made to the Library during the last year of the 

 nineteenth century were greater than during any previous year 

 of the Society's existence, they have nevertheless pleasure in 

 stating that the Additions maintained, both in number and interest, 

 the high standard to which the Society is accustomed. The number 

 of Donors is the largest yet recorded. 



During the past year the Library received by Donation 179 

 Volumes of separately published Works, 360 Pamphlets and detached 

 Parts of Works, 182 Volumes and 142 detached Parts of Serial 

 Publications (Transactions, Memoirs, Proceedings, etc.), and 17 

 Volumes of Newspapers. 



The total number of accessions to the Library by Donation is 

 thus seen to amount to 378 Volumes, 360 Pamphlets, and 142 

 detached Parts. 



The number of Maps presented by various Donors surpasses even 

 the exceptional record of the previous year, no less than Q65 Sheets 

 of Maps having been given to the Society's Library : about 397 of 

 these are Ordnance Survey Maps. But the foregoing total is 

 exclusive of the 21 folios of the Geologic Atlas of the United States 

 which came in during 1900. 



Although it is hardly possible to make a selection from among 

 the numerous Donations (of which the totals have been recited in 

 the foregoing paragraphs) without omitting many important gifts, 

 your Committee may perhaps be allowed to direct attention to the 

 following : Dr. C. W. Andrews's ' Monograph of Christmas Island ' 

 and Prof. J. W. Gregory's Catalogue of the Cretaceous Bryozoa, 

 vol. i, both presented by the Trustees of the British Museum ; 

 Prof. E,. Zeiller's ' Elements de Paleobotanique ' ; Dr. D. H, Scott's 

 * Studies in Fossil Botany ' ; Prof. A. liothpletz's ' Geologische 

 Alpenforschungen ' ; the late Maurice Ilovelacque's ' Album de 

 Microphotographies des Roches Sedimentaires,' presented by his 



