ANNUAL REPORT. HI 



in the Cambridge Philosophical Transactions, and in the Transactions 

 of this Society ; and that they have granted the balance of the pro- 

 ceeds of the Donation Fund for the present year, amounting to 

 5631 5s. 6d., to Mr. John Morris, F.G.S., for the purpose of aiding 

 him in the publication of the New Edition of the Catalogue of Bri- 

 tish Fossils on which he is now engaged. 



Report of the Museum and Library Committee. 



The Committee beg leave to present the following Report on the 

 present state of the Library and Museum, and the changes made in 

 them during the past year. 



Museum. 



British Collection. — Mr. Nicol has looked carefully through every 

 drawer in this collection, and fixed down all the specimens which had 

 broken loose, and seen to the good order of the whole. His Report 

 to the Council of May 16, 1849, contains such full details on the sub- 

 ject that the Committee think it sufficient to refer to it. 



During the year the specimens of Azoic rocks have been removed 

 from the two cabinets in which they were contained and have been 

 packed up in paper parcels in accordance with the order of the 

 Council, and under the direction of Mr. Greenough ; these parcels 

 are now placed in the recesses below the windows in the Lower 

 Museum. There still remain in this collection nearly 250 drawers 

 full of inorganic specimens, many of which might be advantageously 

 removed to make room for such specimens as may be presented to 

 the Society, and to allow of many being better displayed which are 

 now inconveniently crowded ; but the general good order in which 

 this collection has been left by our previous Curators leaves little to 

 be done to it beyond occasional attention to the condition of the 

 drawers, and the proper insertion of fresh specimens as they are re- 

 ceived from time to time. 



Foreign Collection. — The great changes which have been made in 

 this department, in carrying out the vote of the Council of March 21, 

 render it necessary to report upon it at some length. 



The Committee appointed to carry out those changes commenced 

 by separating all the specimens of Minerals and Rocks from the Or- 

 ganic Remains ; and this they will treat of separately. 



Rocks. — In accordance with the vote of the Council of Jan. 31, 

 the unarranged Foreign Rock specimens were brought up from the 

 vaults that they might be examined together with those already in 

 the Upper Museum, and a selection was made from the whole collec- 

 tion thus brought under review upon the following principle, as want 

 of space rendered it impossible to keep the whole in the Upper 

 Museum. 



The Committee determined to retain in drawers collections from 

 certain well-described districts of igneous and volcanic rocks, which 

 may serve as terms of comparsion with other districts : under this 

 head come Naples, Auvergne, the Siebengebirge, &c., and also the 



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