xiv PROCEEDINGS OE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [March I913, 



independent State Surveys of Connecticut, Maryland, and Washing- 

 ton : also from the Geological Survey departments of India, 

 Mysore, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, and 

 Switzerland. Prof. J. Milne's Catalogue of Earthquakes to 1911, 

 and Dr. C. Davison's work on the Origin of Earthquakes were 

 the chief seismological publications received. 



The Books and Maps enumerated in the foregoing paragraphs 

 were the gift of 162 Government Departments and other Public 

 Bodies ; of 185 Societies and Editors of Periodicals ; and of 155 

 Personal Donors. 



The Purchases, made on the recommendation of the standing 

 Library Committee, included 38 Volumes and 12 detached Parts of 

 separately published Works ; 86 Volumes and 18 detached Parts 

 of Works published serially ; and 8 Sheets of Geological Maps. 



A portion of the Proceeds of the Prestwich Fund set aside for 

 the special purpose of the Society's Library was spent in 1912. 

 ^.The Expenditure upon the Library (apart from the cost of 

 refitting the old Museum Cabinets to take the new Bookshelves, 

 etc.) during the j r ear under review was as follows : — 



£ s. d. 



Books, Periodicals, etc. purchased 84 9 7 



Binding of Books and Mounting of Maps . . 142 10 4 



Lettering of new Bookshelves 11 12 10 



Total £238 12 9 



Mr. C. Davies Sherborn reports that ' the Card Catalogue 

 continues to make satisfactory progress.' 



The congestion in the Lower Library has been relieved by the 

 removal of several thousand volumes upstairs to the new Library 

 Extension which occupies the space formerly taken up by the 

 Society's Museum. The re-arrangement of the books in the 

 ground-floor Library will follow in due course. In the Library 

 Extension an endeavour has been made to follow as far as possible 

 a geographical arrangement of the serials. 



