Vol. 56.] ANNUAL REPORT. xili 



Report of the Library and Museum Committee for 1899. 



Your Committee have pleasure'in stating that the Additions made 

 to the Library during the past twelve months were greater in 

 number and by no means less in interest than the acquisitions of 

 previous years. It is noticeable that, since the publication in its 

 present form of the List of Geological Literature added to the 

 Society's Library, foreign authors especially have shown themselves 

 increasingly generous in the matter of presentation of copies of 

 their works to this Society. 



During 1899 the Library received by Donation 144 Volumes of 

 separately published Works, 468 Pamphlets and detached Parts of 

 Works, 228 Volumes and 109 detached Parts of Serial Publications 

 (Transactions, Memoirs, Proceedings, etc.), and 16 Volumes of 

 Newspapers. 



The total number of accessions to the Library by Donation is 

 thus seen to amount to 388 Volumes, 468 Pamphlets, and 109 

 detached Parts. 



The number of Maps presented by various Donors is the largest 

 recorded for a great many years, amounting to no less than 229 

 Sheets of Maps. 



Although it is somewhat difficult to make a selection from among 

 the numerous gifts of which statistics have been supplied in the 

 foregoing paragraphs, your Committee may perhaps be allowed to 

 draw attention to the following: 'The Life & Letters of Sir 

 Joseph Prestwich ' and Eight Volumes of his Lectures, Addresses, 

 etc. presented by the late Lady Prestwich ; Prof. K. A. von Zittel's 

 ' History of Geology & Palaeontology ' ; Messrs. Peach, Home, 

 & Teall's Geological Survey Memoir of the Silurian Rocks of 

 Scotland ; Prof. Eritsfh's monograph on the Younger Palaeozoic 

 Arachnoidea of Bohemia ; Dr. W. Waagen & Prof. J. Jahn's 

 monograph on the Silurian Crinoidea of the same country ; Messrs. 

 Hall & Clarke's monograph on the Palaeozoic Reticulate Sponges 

 of New York ; Mr. Strahan's Geological Survey Memoir of the Isle 

 of Purbeck & Weymouth; the Annual Reports (1896-1898) and 

 Monographs of the United States Geological Survey ; and those 

 of the Kansas and Iowa Geological Surveys. A collection of 69 

 Pamphlets was presented by Mr. George Clinch. 



Turning from Books to Maps, the following Donations are especi- 

 ally noteworthy : the splendid Atlas of Finland, published by the 

 Geographical Society of that Duchy ; 7 Sheets of the International 

 Geological Map of Europe; Victor Raulin's Geological and Agronomic 

 Maps of the Landes, in 3 Sheets ; the General Geological Map of the 

 Austrian Empire, in 10 Sheets ; the Official Map of the Distribution 

 of Useful Minerals in Hungary ; 31 Sheets of the Geological Survey 

 maps of Rumania, Sweden, South Australia, Western Australia, and 

 Queensland ; and 28 Sheets of Maps of the Geological Surveys of 

 the United Kingdom. 



The Books and Maps enumerated above were the gift of 179 



