ANNUAL REPORT. 



Parcels. 



I. Syria . . 2 



„ „ Beyrout 1 



„ „ Mount Lebanon. . 1 



„ Laacher See 1 



„ Sicily ... 1 



I.O. New York 1 



„ New Zealand 1 



„ New England 1 



K. Persia, Bombay 7 



Jamaica 1 



Hydrabad 2 



Nagpur 2 



Malabar 2 



Beghapore 1 



Indian Peninsula .... 1 



India, Mysore. ...... 1 



Parcels. 



L.O. California 1 



M. St. Vincent, Guada 

 loupe and St. Lucia 



„ St. Helena 



„ Bengal 



M.O. Trinidad 



„ Panama 



Mauritius, Island of 



;} 



0. 



R. 



Java . . . 

 Sumatra . 

 Borneo . , 

 China, &c. 



Rhine, Duplicate Rocks. 

 Crystalline Rocks .... 



There is in the Upper Museum a collection of rock-specimens 

 arranged mineralogically for assisting the study of rocks : this has 

 not been touched for many years and is very imperfect. The Com- 

 mittee regard the present as a favourable opportunity for improving it, 

 and they recommend that a selection be made from among the dupli- 

 cate specimens to render this collection as perfect as possible. Had 

 time permitted, the Committee would have made such a selection and 

 submitted it for the approval of the Council ; but not having been 

 able to do so, and not wishing on that account to delay the disposal 

 which the Council may wish to make of the vast accumulation of du- 

 plicates which encumber the Society's rooms, they have set aside a 

 portion of the duplicates out of which the required selection may be 

 made hereafter. 



Minerals. — Acting on the vote of the Council of Feb. 21, Mr. Pratt 

 caused all the specimens of minerals in the vaults to be brought up 

 to the tables of the Lower Museum, where they were united with those 

 which had been removed from the drawers of the Foreign Collection 

 in the Upper Museum, and the whole were then examined and com- 

 pared with the specimens arranged in the Mineral Collection in the 

 Library, to which were added all such specimens as could improve 

 that collection. The remainder were set aside as duplicates. 



Foreign Organic Remains. — Following the plan laid down by the 

 Council on March 31, the Committee divided this part of the collec- 

 tion in the Upper Museum into the following great geographical di- 

 visions : — Europe. 



America, divided into British North iVmerica, &c. 

 „ ,, United States. 



„ „ West Indies. 



,, ,, South America. 



Asia. 



Australia, &c. 

 Africa. 



