IO PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The balance of the proceeds of the Murchison Donation Fund has 

 been awarded to John Young, Esq., F.G.S., Curator of the Hunterian 

 Museum in the University of Glasgow, in recognition of his long- 

 continued researches among the Polyzoa and other minute fossil 

 organisms of the Carboniferous strata of the west of Scotland, and 

 to assist him in further investigations of a like kind. 



The balance of the proceeds of the Lyell Donation Fund has 

 been awarded, in equal parts, to P. H. Carpenter, Esq., M.A., as a 

 testimony to the importance of his investigations into the structure 

 and relationships of the fossil Crinoidea, and to assist him in extend- 

 ing his researches to the order Blastoidea ; and to M. Bigaux, of 

 Boulogne, in recognition of the value of his investigations upon the 

 fossils of the Devonian and Jurassic series of the Boulonnais, and to 

 aid him in the further prosecution of his researches. 



Eeport of the Library and Museum Committee. 



Library, 



Since the last Anniversary Meeting a great number of valuable 

 additions have been made to the Library, both by donation and by 

 purchase. 



As Donations the Library has received about 107 volumes of sepa- 

 rately published works and Survey Reports, and about 188 Pamphlets 

 and separate impressions of Memoirs ; also about 137 volumes and 

 102 detached parts of the publications of various Societies, and 16 

 volumes of independent Periodicals presented chiefly by their re- 

 spective Editors, besides 22 volumes of Newspapers of various 

 kinds. This will constitute a total addition to the Society's Libraiy, 

 by donation, of about 310 volumes and 188 pamphlets. 



A considerable number of Maps, Plans, and Sections have been 

 added to the Society's collections by presentation from various Geo- 

 logical Surveys, from the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, and 

 from the French Depot de la Marine. They amount all together to 

 270 sheets, and include 225 sheets from the Ordnance Survey, and 

 26 sheets from the Depot de la Marine; the Geological Surveys 

 from which Maps have been received are those of Belgium, Finland, 

 Saxony, Sweden, and Switzerland. 



The Books and Maps just referred to have been received from 

 127 personal Donors, the Editors or Publishers of 15 Periodicals, 

 and 140 Societies, Surveys, and other Public Bodies, making in all 

 283 Donors. 



By Purchase, on the recommendation of the Standing Library 

 Committee, the Library has received the addition of 50 volumes of 

 Books, and of 44 parts (making about 8 volumes) of Periodicals, 



