﻿Vol. 6 1.] ANNUAL REPORT. Xlii 



Great progress has been made during the past year in overtaking 

 the arrears of binding and map-mounting. 



The Expenditure incurred in connection with the Library during 

 1904 was as follows : — 



£ s. d. 



Books, Periodicals, etc. purchased 67 8 5 



Binding of Books and Mounting of Maps .... 139 15 6 



Total £207 3 11 



With regard to the progress of the new Card-Catalogue of the 

 Library, upon which he is engaged, Mr. C. Davies Sherborn supplies 

 the following details : — 



' Work on the card-catalogue of the Library progresses favourably. The 

 Annual Lists of Additions have been mounted and indexed, as to subjects and 

 localities, up to and including 1897. There still remains about two years' 

 labour before current literature will be overtaken and the indexing of the 

 early serials and " Academies" can be commenced, at which time, it is hoped, 

 money will be available for expediting this portion of the work. As each year's 

 " Additions" demand the use of some 7,500 cards, some idea may be formed of 

 the extent of the Catalogue projected for the convenience of the Fellows.' 



Museum. 



For the purpose of study and comparison, the Collections were 

 visited on 26 occasions during the year, the contents of about 

 67 drawers being thus examined. Moreover, the permission of 

 the Council having been duly obtained, about 115 specimens were 

 lent during 1904 to various investigators. 



No expenditure has been incurred in connection with the Museum 

 during the past year. 



The appended Lists contain the Names of Government Depart- 

 ments, Public Bodies, Societies, Editors, and Personal Donors, from 

 whom Donations to the Library have been received during the year 

 under review : — 



I. Government Departments and other Public Bodies. 



Alabama. — Geological Survey, University (Ala.). 

 American Museum of Natural History. New York. 

 Austria. — Kaiserlich-Konigliche Geologische Eeichsanstalt. Vienna. 

 Bavaria. — K6niglicb.es Bayerisches Oberbergamt. Munich. 

 Belgium. — Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres & Beaux- Arts de t>elgique . 

 Brussels. 



. Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle. Brussels. 



Berlin. — Konigliche Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 



Birmingham, University of. 



Bohemia. — Royal Museum of Natural History. Prague. 



. Naturwissenschaftliche Landesdurchforsclmng. Prague. 



