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PKOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The cost of Books, Periodicals, and Maps purchased during the 

 year 1886 was <£44 17s 10d., and of Binding £66 13s. 4d., making a 

 total of £111 lis. 2d. 



With the view of rendering the Library more useful to the Fellows, 

 it is now kept open on the days of the Society's Meetings from 5 to 

 8 o'clock in the evening. 



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 additions during the year 1886 have not been numerous ; 

 they consist of a collection of specimens presented by M. E. Cornet, 

 illustrating his paper on the Phosphatic Beds in the neighbourhood 

 of Mons ; of a collection of rock-specimens from xlssouan, presented 

 by Sir J. W. Dawson and Prof. Bonney ; and of 2 elytra of 

 Beetles from London Clay of Peckham, a specimen of Palceocorystes 

 glabra, and one of Litoricola glabra from the Lower Eocene of 

 Portsmouth, bequeathed to the Society by the late Caleb Evans, 

 Esq., E.G.S. 



