ANNUAL REPORT. 



128 personal Donors, the Editors or Publishers of 15 Periodicals, 

 and 131 Societies, Surveys, or other Public Bodies, making in all 

 274 Donors. 



By Purchase, on the recommendation of the Standing Library 

 Committee, the Library has received the addition of 46 volumes of 

 Books, and of 53 parts (making about 10 volumes) of Periodicals, 

 besides 12 parts of works published serially, the earlier portions of 

 which were obtained in previous years. Five Sheets of the Geolo- 

 gical Survey Map of France, and 4 sheets of a Map of the Bohe- 

 mian Coalfield, by Dr. Wolff, have been obtained by purchase. 



The cost of Books and Periodicals during the year 1880 was 

 =£73 2s. 3d,, and of Binding £76 10.§. Id. The total expenditure 

 on account of the Library was thus £149 12s. 4cZ. 



The Books in the Society's Library are generally in good con- 

 dition ; and a considerable number of old serial and other works, 

 of which the binding had been damaged by long use, have been 

 rebound or repaired. The Library continues to be much used by 

 the Fellows of the Society. 



Museum, 



The Collections in the Museum remain in much the same con- 

 dition as at the date of the last Report of the Committee, the 

 Foreign Collections being all available for reference. The Egerton 

 Collection of Arctic Fossil Shells has been named and arranged by 

 Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys. 



The following Donations have been made to the Museum during 

 the year 1880 ; — A specimen of rock from the top of the Asnai 

 Heights, Cabul, presented by Lieut. F. Spratt, R.E., and 20 speci- 

 mens of Carboniferous-limestone Fossils from Flathead River, Rocky 

 Mountains, presented by H. Bauerman, Esq., F.G.S. 



