Vol.51.] ANNUAL EEPOET. xi 



Report oe the Library and Museum Committee eor 1894. 



Library. 



Your Committee have pleasure in congratulating the Society on 

 the extensive and valuable additions made to the Library during the 

 year under review. 



By Donation the Library has received about 125 Yolumes of 

 separately published works, 1199 Pamphlets and detached Parts of 

 works, 247 Volumes and 112 detached Parts of the publications of 

 various Societies, Public Bodies, and Government institutions. To 

 these must be added 16 Volumes of Newspapers, making therefore 

 the total accession of books to the Society's Library by Donation 

 amount to 388 Volumes and 1311 Pamphlets and detached Parts. 

 Moreover, 89 Sheets of Maps and 150 Photographs representing 

 landscapes of geological interest have been presented to the Library. 

 The photographic views the Society owes largely to the liberality of 

 Mr. James Jackson, Honorary Librarian of the Geographical Societ) r 

 of France, and to Mr. J. PL Cooke, lately of Malta. Your Com- 

 mittee would also draw attention to the presentation byM.Delebecque 

 of two successive editions of his fine Atlas of the French Lakes. 



A very large number of pamphlets from the libraries of Sir 

 John Evans, the Rev. J. F. Blake, and the late Mr. Vf. Topley have 

 recently enriched the shelves of the Society's Library. 



The Books, Maps, and Photographs enumerated above were the 

 gift of 163 Personal Donors, 55 Public Bodies, and 179 Societies 

 and Editors of Periodicals. A detailed List of these is appended to 

 the present Report : and herein your Committee revert to an old 

 custom which had remained in abeyance for many years. 



The Purchases made on the recommendation of the Standing 

 Library Committee amounted to 87 Volumes of separately published 

 works, 210 Volumes and 32 Parts of works published serially, and 

 17 Sheets of Maps. 



Further progress has been made during the past year towards the 

 completion of sets of serials in the Library which had long been 

 deficient. Among the most important of these may be mentioned 

 the Abhandlungen of the Prussian Geological Survey, the Memoirs 

 of the Italian Geological Survey, the Materiaux pour la Carte de la 

 Russie, the Saxon Jahrbuch fiir das Berg- u. Hiittenwesen, the 

 Abhandlungen of the Halle Natural History Society, the Trans- 

 actions of the Iron and Steel Institute, and the Proceedings of the 

 Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. 



Your Committee have much satisfaction in stating that the 

 manuscript Card Catalogue of the Geological Maps and Sections in 

 the Library, the inception of which was announced last year, is now 

 nearly completed. 



