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of his work on the Geology of Rhodesia, and to encourage him in 

 further research. 



The Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund 

 is awarded to Mr. James Vincent Elsden, B.Sc, in acknowledgment 

 of his work among the igneous rocks of Wales, and to encourage 

 him in further research. 



A moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological 

 Fund is awarded to Mr. Herbert Brantwood Muff, B. A, in recogni- 

 tion of his researches on the Pleistocene deposits and on the ancient 

 rocks of Scotland and Ireland. 



A second moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell 

 Geological Fund is awarded to Mr. Robert George Garruthers, in 

 recognition of his work on the Carboniferous Corals, and to stimu- 

 late him to further research. 



Report of the Library and Muse™ Committee eor 1908. 



The Committee have pleasure in reporting that the Additions 

 made to the Library during the past year have fully maintained, 

 both in number and in importance, the standard of previous years. 



During the twelve months under review the Library has received by 

 Donation 234 Volumes of separately-published Works, 329 Pamphlets, 

 21 Detached Parts of Works, 321 Volumes and 30 Detached Parts 

 of Serial Publications, and 25 Volumes of Newspapers. 



The total number of accessions to the Library by Donation is 

 thus found to amount to 580 Volumes, 329 Pamphlets, and 51 De- 

 tached Parts. Moreover, 332 Sheets of Geological Maps were 

 presented to the Library, including 17 Folios of the 'Geologic Atlas 

 of the United States'; 208 Sheets received from the Geological 

 Survey of Belgium ; 75 Sheets from the Geological Survey of 

 England and Wales, and 15 Sheets from that of Scotland (the 

 imajority in both these cases being on the 6-inch scale) ; 12 Sheets 

 from the Geological Survey of Canada ; 10 Sheets from the Austrian 

 Geologische Reichsaustalfc ; 6 Sheets from the Geological Survey of 

 Japan ; 4 Sheets from the Geological Survey of Cape Colony ; and 

 4 Sheets of maps presented by the Swiss Geological Commission. 



Among the Books and Pamphlets mentioned in the foregoing 

 paragraph, especial attention may be directed to the following 

 works : — the second part of Vol. II. of Prof. Rosenbusch's new and 

 greatly enlarged edition of the ' Mikroskopische Physiographic der 

 Mineralien & Gesteine'; Prof. J. Walther's 'Geschichte der Erdc 

 & des Lebens'; the second volume (Systematic Geology) of 

 Dr. Bailey Willis's ' Research in China ' ; Dr. J. Gunnar Andersson's 

 * Contributions to the Geology of the Falkland Islands ' ; Dr. R. D. 

 M. Verbeek's work on the Geology of the Moluccan Archipelago ; 

 sixteen volumes of the ' Bibliographia Geologica ' published by the 

 Belgian Geological Survey; Parts III & IV of the monumental 

 Avork on the Geology of the French Pyrenees, by Prof. L. Carez ; 

 Vol. Ill of the English translation of Prof. Suess's ' Face of the 



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