XiV PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL society. [May 1902, 
in the Natural History Museum; the Geological Survey Memoir 
on Central & Western Fife & Kinross-shire; the late Sir J. 
William Dawson’s ‘ Fifty Years of Work in Canada’; Prof. A. 
Issel’s work on ‘ Bradyseismic Oscillations of the Earth’s Crust,’ and 
35 other memoirs by the same author; Dr. F. L. Kitchin’s mono- 
graph of the Jurassic Brachiopoda of Cutch; Mr. F. R. C. Reed’s 
‘Geological History of the Rivers of East Yorkshire’; Prof. A. G. 
Nathorst’s ‘Two Summers amid the Arctic Ice’; the Egyptian 
Geological Survey memoirs on the Dakhla Oasis and the Kharga 
Oasis; Part IV of Dr. A. Smith Woodward’s Catalogue of the Fossil 
Fishes in the Natural History Museum; and Dr. J. C. Thresh’s 
Report on the Water-Supply of the County of Essex. Moreover, 
numerous publications were received from the Geological Survey 
Departments of Canada, the various States of the Australian 
Commonwealth, India, Mysore, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, 
Russia, Saxony, Hungary, Servia, Portugal, and Japan. The 
wonted liberality of the United States Geological Survey was sup- 
plemented by that of the Survey Departments of the various States, 
such as Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, and Maryland. The In- 
stitution of Mining & Metallurgy presented a complete set of their 
Transactions, beautifully bound; and Dr. Henry Woodward & 
Mr. Horace B. Woodward presented two copies (one framed) of their 
Table of the British Strata. 
Among the Maps, special interest attaches to Mr. J. E. Dunn’s 
eift of the first edition (1873) of his Geological Sketch-map of 
Cape Colony. From the Geological Survey of Italy 11 Sheets of 
Maps were received; from that of Japan, 14 Sheets; from that 
of Rumania, 5 Sheets; from that of Hesse, 4 Sheets; and from 
that of the United States (exclusive of the Geologic Atlas), 97 
Sheets. 
The Books and Maps enumerated above were the gift of 174 
Personal Donors; 111 Government Departments and other Public 
Bodies ; and 180 Societies and Editors of Periodicals. 
The Purchases made on the recommendation of the standing 
Library Committee included 58 Volumes and 12 Parts of separately 
published Works; 26 Volumes and 8 Parts of works published 
serially ; and 8 Sheets of Maps. 
The total Expenditure incurred in connexion with the Library 
during 1901 was as follows :— 
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Books, Periodicals, etc. purchased.......... 56 10 11 
Binding of Books and Mounting of Maps.... 129 11 2 
£186 2h 
Eres 
The Society’s Collection of Portraits of eminent Geologists has 
been enriched by the following Donations :—A Framed Engraving 
of Wollaston, presented by Dr. Henry Woodward; and a Framed 
Photographic Portrait of Sir Archibald Geikie, presented by himself. 
