Vol. 6$.~] ANNUAL EEPOKT. X 



■Geological Surveys of Scotland, the Cape Colony, the Transvaal 

 Colony, Queensland, and Alabama. 



Among the Books and Pamphlets mentioned in the foregoing- 

 paragraph, especial attention may" be directed to the following 

 ■works: — Vol. II of Miss Hertha Sollas's translation of Suess's 

 ' Face of the Earth ' ; the second and final volume of the monograph 

 on the Rocks of Cape-Colville Peninsula (N.Z.), by Prof. W. J. 

 Sollas & Dr. A. McKay ; the new edition of Sir Boverton Redwood's 

 great monograph on ' Petroleum & its Products ' ; Capt. H. G. 

 Lyons's ' Physiography of the^River Nile' ; Dr. R. D. M. Verbeek's 

 * Description geologique de file d'Ambon ' ; ohe 5th edition of 

 Prof. G. A. J. Cole's ' Aids to Practical Geology ' ; Mr. J". H. Sears's 

 monograph on the Physiography, Geology, etc. of Essex County 

 (Mass.) ; M. L. Cayeux's ' Structure & Origine des Gres du 

 Tertiaire parisien ' ; the second edition of Sir Archibald Geikie's 

 ' Pounders of Geology ' ; the Scientific Reports of the French 

 Government Expedition to the Sahara ; the Geological Report on 

 the Country traversed by the South Australian Government's 

 prospecting Expedition to the North-West Territory ; Dr. C. W. 

 Andrews's Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of the Fayum in 

 the Natural History Museum ; Mr. E. A. Newell Arber's Catalogue 

 of the Glossopteris-Flora in the same Museum ; the geology of the 

 following counties, forming part of the Victoria History of the 

 Counties of England : Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Derbyshire, Devon, 

 Durham, Somerset, and Warwickshire; the Geological Survey- 

 Memoirs on the Scilly Isles, Sidmouth & Lyme Regis, Stoke-upon- 

 Trent, Macclesfield & Congleton, and Mid- Argyll ; the Memoirs on 

 the Water-Supply of Suffolk and that of the East Riding of York- 

 shire ; Dr. A. Strahan's ' Guide to the Geological Model of the Isle 

 of Purbeck ' ; and the 2nd edition of Mr. H. B. Woodward's 

 Memoir on ' Soils & Sub-Soils of London & its Neighbourhood/ 

 Moreover many valuable publications, too numerous to particularize 

 in this place, were received from the Geological Surveys and other 

 Government Departments of the Cape Colony, the Transvaal 

 Colony, Natal, the various States of the Commonwealth of Australia, 

 New Zealand, Mysore, British Guiana, Newfoundland, New Jersey, 

 Iowa, Ohio, the United States, Finland, Russia, etc., and from the 

 New York State Museum, the Bergen Museum, and the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta. 



The Books and Maps, enumerated above, were the gift of 169 

 Personal Donors ; 129 Government Departments and other Public 

 Bodies ; and 175 Societies and Editors of Periodicals. 



The Purchases, made on the recommendation of the standing 

 Library Committee, included 37 Volumes and 9 detached Parts of 

 separately-published Works ; 40 Volumes and 9 Parts of Works 

 published serially ; and 15 Sheets of Maps. 



In consequence of certain suggestions, made by Dr. F. A. Bather, 

 for improvement in the method of binding books in the Society's 

 Library, a ' Binding Sub-Committee ' was appointed on March 8th, 

 1905 ; and, after considering the very carefully-compiled statistics 



