ANNUAL REPORT. V 



The Curator has found great advantage in the aid afforded by the 

 assistant lately employed, and has thus been relieved from much me- 

 chanical labour. The Committee recommend that this arrangement 

 should be permanently continued. 



Library, 



The Committee congratulate the Society on the improved state of 

 the Library, especially in the publication of the Catalogue : the books 

 are now all in available order, and the arrangement of them with 

 reference to the Catalogue is completed. Great additional space has 

 been gained by a better economy of shelves. A large number of pam- 

 phlets and other works have been bound, and many incomplete 

 works have been completed. The Committee recommend that the 

 binding of the pamphlets in volumes be continued, and that certain 

 valuable works, which it has been found impossible to complete, be 

 bound in their present condition with blank leaves for deficient pages. 

 Also that steps be taken to complete the copy of the Palaontologie 

 Frangaise. 



As soon as the present vacant space is filled up, the Committee 

 recommend that the duplicate works, and certain works seldom re- 

 ferred to, be placed on the shelves in the Council Room. 



DANIEL SHARPE. 

 EDWARD FORBES. 

 J. S. BOWERBANK. 



Comparative Statement of the Number of the Society at the close of 

 the years 1845 and 1846. 



Dec. 31, 1845. Dec. 31, 1846. 



Compounders 123 .... 128 



Residents 250 253 



Non-residents 437 439 



810 820 



Honorary Members 20 20 



Foreign Members 49 50 



Personages of Royal Blood 4 — 73 4 — 74 



883 894 



