﻿ANNUAL 
  EEPOET. 
  1 
  I 
  

  

  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Libeaet 
  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 
  125 
  volumes 
  of 
  

   separately 
  published 
  works 
  and 
  Survey 
  Eeports, 
  and 
  373 
  pamphlets 
  

   and 
  separate 
  impressions 
  of 
  Memoirs, 
  besides 
  about 
  123 
  volumes 
  

   and 
  149 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  publications 
  of 
  various 
  Societies. 
  Further, 
  

   17 
  volumes 
  of 
  independent 
  Periodicals, 
  presented 
  chiefly 
  by 
  their 
  

   respective 
  Editors, 
  and 
  18 
  volumes 
  of 
  Newspapers 
  have 
  been 
  re- 
  

   ceived. 
  This 
  constitutes 
  a 
  total 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  Society's 
  Library, 
  

   by 
  donation, 
  of 
  about 
  320 
  volumes 
  and 
  373 
  pamphlets. 
  

  

  A 
  great 
  number 
  of 
  Maps, 
  Plans, 
  and 
  Charts 
  have 
  been 
  added 
  

   to 
  the 
  Society's 
  Collection 
  by 
  presentation, 
  chiefly 
  from 
  the 
  Ord- 
  

   nance 
  Survey 
  of 
  Great 
  Britain, 
  whose 
  donations 
  amount 
  to 
  1147 
  

   sheets, 
  large 
  and 
  small. 
  From 
  the 
  French 
  Depot 
  de 
  la 
  Marine 
  

   37 
  sheets 
  of 
  charts 
  and 
  coast-plans 
  have 
  been 
  received. 
  

  

  Of 
  Geological-Survey 
  publications 
  the 
  Society 
  has 
  received 
  a 
  

   considerable 
  number. 
  From 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  Great 
  Britain 
  

   84 
  sheets 
  of 
  Maps 
  and 
  Sections 
  ; 
  2 
  sheets 
  from 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  

   of 
  Bavaria, 
  7 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  Saxony, 
  1 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  Italy, 
  2 
  from 
  that 
  

   of 
  Finland, 
  and 
  1 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  Russia 
  ; 
  from 
  the 
  Roumanian 
  Geolo- 
  

   gical 
  Bureau 
  5 
  sheets 
  have 
  been 
  received, 
  and 
  from 
  more 
  distant 
  

   regions 
  2 
  from 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  New 
  Jersey, 
  and 
  9 
  from 
  the 
  

   Imperial 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  Japan. 
  The 
  Society 
  has 
  further 
  re- 
  

   ceived 
  a 
  copy 
  of 
  a 
  sheet 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Map 
  of 
  Europe 
  prepared 
  

   by 
  M. 
  Hauchecorne 
  for 
  the 
  International 
  Geological 
  Congress, 
  and 
  

   coloured 
  in 
  accordance 
  with 
  the 
  system 
  proposed 
  to 
  be 
  adopted 
  by 
  

   that 
  body 
  ; 
  and, 
  from 
  individual 
  donors, 
  a 
  geological 
  Map 
  of 
  the 
  

   Bath 
  District 
  by 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  B. 
  Woodward, 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  Rayan 
  depres- 
  

   sion 
  in 
  Egypt 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Cope 
  Whitehouse. 
  

  

  The 
  Society 
  has 
  also 
  received 
  from 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  T. 
  Harrison 
  a 
  set 
  of 
  

   five 
  globes 
  prepared 
  by 
  him 
  in 
  illustration 
  of 
  an 
  Essay 
  on 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   duction 
  of 
  changes 
  of 
  Climate 
  in 
  Geological 
  time 
  by 
  the 
  shifting 
  of 
  

   the 
  position 
  of 
  the 
  poles 
  of 
  the 
  Earth. 
  

  

  The 
  Books, 
  Maps, 
  &c. 
  above 
  referred 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  received 
  from 
  

   168 
  personal 
  Donors, 
  the 
  Editors 
  or 
  Publishers 
  of 
  16 
  Periodicals, 
  

   and 
  184 
  Societies, 
  Surveys, 
  and 
  other 
  Public 
  Bodies, 
  making, 
  in 
  all, 
  

   368 
  Donors. 
  

  

  By 
  purchase, 
  on 
  the 
  recommendation 
  of 
  the 
  Standing 
  Library 
  

   Committee, 
  the 
  Library 
  has 
  received 
  the 
  addition 
  of 
  35 
  volumes 
  of 
  

   books, 
  and 
  of 
  19 
  volumes 
  and 
  15 
  parts 
  (making 
  about 
  5 
  volumes) 
  

   of 
  various 
  Periodicals, 
  besides 
  29 
  parts 
  of 
  certain 
  works 
  in 
  course 
  of 
  

   publication 
  serially. 
  Six 
  sheets 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Map 
  of 
  France 
  

   and 
  the 
  neighbouring 
  districts, 
  by 
  MM. 
  Yasseur 
  and 
  Carez, 
  have 
  also 
  

   been 
  purchased. 
  

  

  