﻿Xii PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I905, 



Among the numerous donations mentioned in the foregoing 

 paragraphs, special attention may be directed to the following : — 

 Report of the Coral-Reef Committee of the Royal Society on the 

 Atoll of Funafuti ; Prof. Zeiller's great monograph on the Flora 

 of the Coal-bearing strata of Tongking ; the official handbook on 

 the Geology of the Cameroons, issued by the German Foreign 

 Office ; Prof. H. S. Washington's Manual of the Chemical Analysis 

 of Rocks ; Prof. Pernor's Monograph on the Silurian Gasteropoda 

 of Central Bohemia, Vol. I ; Herr Hauswaldt's ' Interference- 

 Phenomena in Polarized Light' ; Yol. I of Miss Sollas's translation 

 of Suess's ' Face of the Earth ' ; the Geological Survey Memoirs on 

 the Kingsbridge and Salcombe Districts of Devon, on Merthyr Tydfil, 

 on the Oolitic and Cretaceous Rocks south of Scarborough, on the 

 country round Belfast, on the Tertiary Igneous Rocks of Skye, and 

 . the third volume of the ' Cretaceous Rocks of England.' From the 

 Trustees of the British Museum the following volumes were 

 received : Vol. I of the ' History of the Collections in the Natural 

 History Department ' ; Vols. I & II of Mr. B. B. Woodward's 

 Catalogue of the Library of that Department ; Vol. II of Mr. A . C. 

 Seward's Catalogue of the Jurassic Flora ; Mr. L. Fletcher's 

 ' Introduction to the Study of Meteorites ' ; and Dr. A. S. Wood- 

 ward's 4 Guide to the Fossil Mammals & Birds.' From our 

 Foreign Member, Prof. G. K. Gilbert, the volumes on ' Glaciers & 

 Glaciation,' and ' Geology & Palaeontology ' of the Report of the 

 Harriman Alaska Expedition were received ; and our Foreign 

 Correspondent, Dr. Th. Thoroddsen, presented to the Library a 

 large collection of copies of his papers issued during the last 20 years. 

 Moreover, numerous publications were received from the Geological 

 Survey Departments of Egypt, India, Natal, the Transvaal Colony, 

 Victoria, Hungary, Russia, Mexico, Ohio, and the United States. 



In addition to the Ordnance-Survey maps mentioned in a pre- 

 ceding paragraph, 15 Sheets of Maps were received from H.M. 

 Geological Survey ; 16 Sheets from the Geological Survey of 

 Canada ; 9 Sheets from the Geological Survey of Western Australia ; 

 8 Sheets from the Geological Survey of Italy ; and 5 Sheets from 

 the Geological Survey of Japan. Mr. H. B. Woodward presented a 

 copy of his new edition of Stanford's Geological Atlas of Great 

 Britain ; and Dr. F. H. Hatch sent in a copy of the new edition of 

 his Geological Map of the Southern Transvaal. 



The Books, Maps, etc. enumerated above were the gift of 162 

 Personal Donors; 113 Government Departments and other Public 

 Bodies ; and 157 Societies and Editors of Periodicals. 



The Purchases, made on the recommendation of the standing 

 Library Committee, included 32 Volumes and 6 Parts of separately- 

 published Works ; 24 Volumes of Works published serially ; and 

 7 Sheets of Maps. 



A set of the third series of photographs and the corresponding 

 lantern-slides, issued by the Geological Photographs Committee of 

 the British Association, was subscribed for, and is now deposited 

 in the Library. 



