ANNUAL REPOET. lU. 



Esq. In this portion of the Museum the naming and remounting of 

 the collection of lied Crag fossils has been completed, and the re- 

 arrangement of the collection of Eocene fossils has been commenced. 



More attention, however, has been given to the Foreign portion of 

 the Museum : in the earlier part of the year the collections of Cre- 

 taceous fossils from Faxoe, of Miocene and Pliocene fossils from 

 Italy, and of Senonian, Cenomanian, and Neocomian fossils from 

 France, were cleaned, remounted, and to a great extent renamed. 

 These extra-British fossils occupy 13 drawers, and represent the 

 work done in the Foreign portion of the Museum from the last 

 Anniversary until the close of last Session, — the work in the Museum 

 having been since temporarily suspended, chiefly owing to Mr. Tate's 

 resignation in the summer. 



The Committee wish to reexpress the opinion of the standing- 

 Library and Museum Committee, given at the close of last Session, 

 as to the dcsirabihty of the Society possessing specimens in illustra- 

 tion of papers published in the Quarterly Journal, and to suggest 

 that in future the Assistant Secretary's letter, acknowledging the 

 receipt of communications to the Society, should contain the follow- 

 ing paragraph : — 



" The Society would be glad to receive and arrange in their 

 Museum any specimens which you can spare to illustrate your 

 paper." 



While on this part of the subject, this Committee beg to recom- 

 mend that the Library and Museum Assistants, under the direction 

 of the Assistant- Secretary, should, as far as possible, select and 

 separately arrange such specimens in the Museum as have been 

 already presented in illustration of papers read before the Society 

 and published in their Transactions and Quarterly Journal. 



J. GWYN JEFFEEYS. 

 THOS. WILTSHIRE. 

 EOBEET ETHEEIDGE. 



The Library. 



The additions to the Library during the year by purchases made 

 at the recommendation of the standing Library Committee include 

 the following works : — 



Angehn's * Iconographia Crustaceorum Formationis Transitionis/ 

 Delbos et Koechlin-Schlumberger's ' Description Geologique et Mi- 

 neralogique du departement du Haut-Ehin,' Quenstedt's ^ Hand- 

 buch der Petrefactenkunde,' Helmersen's 'Carte Geologique de la 

 Eussie,' Herrmannsen's 'Indicis Generum Malacozoorum primor- 

 dia,' Senft's 'Die krystallinischen Felsgemeintheile,' Fraas's 'Aus 

 dem Orient,' Yogelsang's ' Philosophic dor Geologic und mikro- 

 skopische Gesteinsstudien,' ' Eeport of the Geological Survey of 

 Illinois,' the ' Journal de Conchyliologie ' from the commencement, 

 and other publications. 



The Library has also been enriched by several presents, including 



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