_ ANNUAL REPORT. ill 
and the publications of Learned Societies, many separate works of 
importance, such as :— 
A portion of Pictet’s ‘Matériaux pour la Paléontologie Suisse,’ 
containing a Monograph of the Valangian beds of Arzier, by MM. 
Pictet and de Loriol; M. Elie de Beaumont’s ‘ Rapport sur les progrés 
de Stratigraphie en France ;’ Sir Proby T. Cautley’s ‘ Report on the 
Ganges Canal,’ in 3 vols. 8vo, with a large folio Atlas of Plates, 2 
copies, one presented by the author, the other by W. T. Thornton, 
Esq.; the Publications of the Musée Teyler, containing paleon- 
tological Memoirs by M. T. C. Winkler; ‘ Matériaux pour la Carte 
géologique de la Suisse,’ Livr. VI., containing a notice of the Ju- 
rassic strata of the Cantons de Vaud and Neuchatel, by M. Aug. 
Jaccard; KH. Favre’s ‘ Description des Mollusques Fossiles de la 
Craie des environs de Lemberg en Galicie ;’ M. de Tchihatcheft’s 
‘Asie Mineure, Géologie,’ Parts 2 and 3; Dr. Bigsby’s ‘ Thesaurus 
Siluricus ? (2 copies); the fifth and concluding volume of M. von 
Kokscharow’s ‘ Materialien zur Mineralogie Russlands;’ and Mr. 
R. B. Smyth’s ‘ Gold Fields and Mineral Districts of Victoria.’ 
A good many Maps and Plans have been added to the Society’s 
Collection ; they include the Maps of the Geological Surveys of 
Victoria (3 sheets, with 2 plates of sections, &c.), Austria (2 sheets), 
Sweden (5 sheets, with 5 parts of descriptions), and Switzerland 
(2 sheets); also Sir W. E. Logan’s Geological Map of Canada (in 8 
sheets), and the Maps of the Geological Society of the Middle Rhine 
(Lauterbach-Salzschlirf Section). Besides these the Society has 
received a great number of the Maps of the Ordnance Survey, and 
of Charts and Plans of sea-coasts, harbours, and channels in various 
parts of the world, from the French Dépét de la Marine. 
During the past year the Library has been completely examined 
and put in good working order; the Catalogue has also been care- 
fully collated with the Books and corrected. New boxes have been 
provided for the loose numbers of the current periodicals. 
Museum. 
Some donations of specimens illustrative of papers read before the 
Society have been received. Several small Collections of Fossils 
which had been lying loose about the Museum, have been placed in 
new Trays and Store-boxes. 
THOS. WILTSHIRE.. 
J. GWYN JEFFREYS. 
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