lO PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Eeport or THE LiBEAEY a:n^d 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 150 volumes of 

 separately published works and Survey Eeports, and about 423 

 Pamphlets and separate impressions of Memoirs, besides about 144 

 volumes and 121 detached parts of the publications of various 

 Societies, 16 volumes of current Periodicals, presented by their 

 respective Editors, and twelve volumes of N^ewspapers. A nearly 

 complete set. consisting of 27 volumes, of the ' Zeitschrift fiir Berg-, 

 Hlitten- und Salinenwesen ' was also presented to the Library. 

 This will constitute a total addition to the Society's Library, by 

 donation, of about 469 volumes and 423 pamphlets. 



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

 added to the Society's collections by presentation. They amount 

 altogether to 827 sheets, large and small, of which 697 sheets were 

 received from the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain. Of the re- 

 mainder, 15 sheets are from the French Depot de la Marine, 61 from 

 the Geological Survey of Great Britain, 16 from that of Saxony, 10 

 from that of Belgium, 6 from the Eoumanian Geological Survey, 5 

 each from the Geological Surveys of Sweden and JSTorway, 3 from 

 that of Switzerland, and 4 from the Russian Geological Committee. 

 From individual Donors the Society has also received 4 sheets of 

 Favre's map of the Alpine Glaciers, and a Geological Map of Berlin. 



The books and maps above referred to have been received from 

 188 personal Donors, the Editors or Publishers of 15 Periodicals, and 

 168 Societies, Surveys, and other Public Bodies, making in aU 371 

 Donors. 



By Purchase, on the recommendation of the Standing Library 

 Committee, the Library has received the addition of 31 volumes of 

 Books, and of 50 parts (making about 14 volumes) of various 

 Periodicals, besides 22 parts of certain works published serially. 

 The Society has also purchased 4 sheets of the Government 

 Geological Survey Map of France, and 10 sheets of the smaller 

 Geological Map of France issued by MM. Yasseur and Carez. 



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

 year 1885 was ^52 18s 2d., and of Binding ^59 Is. 7d., making a 

 total of £111 19s. M. 



