AKNUAL KEPOET, 



value of his investigations concerning the subdivisions of the Cre- 

 taceous Rocks of this country, and to aid him in their further 

 prosecution. 



Report 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 219 volumes of 

 separately published works and Survey Reports, and about 300 

 Pamphlets and separate impressions of Memoirs, besides about 134 

 volumes and 148 detached parts of the publications of various 

 Societies, and 16 volumes of independent Periodicals presented 

 chiefly by their respective Editors, and also 16 volumes of News- 

 papers of various kinds. This will constitute a total addition to 

 the Society's Library, by donation, of about 420 volumes and 300 

 pamphlets. 



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

 added to the Society's collections by presentations, chiefly from the 

 Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, and from the Prench Depot de 

 la Marine. These amount altogether to 832 sheets, but of them 

 788 sheets, large and small, are from the Ordnance Survey. Of the 

 remainder, 26 sheets are from the Depot de la Marine, 6 from the 

 Geological Survey of Saxony, 6 from that of Sweden, 5 from that of 

 Norway, and 1, a large Geological Map of Canada, from the Canadian 

 Geological Survey. 



The Books and Maps above referred to have been received from 

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

 and 172 Societies, Surveys, and other Public Bodies, making in all 

 341 Donors. 



By Purchase, on the recommendation of the Standing Library 

 Committee, the Library has received the addition of 32 volumes of 

 Books, and of 55 parts (making about 18 volumes) of various 

 Periodicals, besides 33 parts of certain works published serially. 

 Of the Geological Survey Map of Prance 9 sheets have been obtained 

 by purchase. 



The cost of Books, Periodicals, and Maps purchased during the 

 year 1884 was ^83 14s. 3cZ., and of Binding £54 95. M., making a 

 total of £138 3s. lid. 



