PART 1.] 
4uiiual Report for 1877. 
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In the mineralogical gallery a new set of table-cases were provjdc'd during the 
past year for the minerals and rocks ; and, thanks to Mr. Mallet’s industry, out- 
valuable series of mineral types is now laid out in perfect order. A valuable 
addition to this collection was made during the year by exchange with the Mineral 
Department of the British Museum. 
Mr. Mallet has also made much progress with the classification of our collec¬ 
tions of economic minerals, both Indian and foreign. This is a branch of our work 
to which I hope to direct more attention than it has hitherto been possible to do 
for want of space. 
Series of rock specimens, both Indian and foreign, have also been laid out. In 
the Indian series we must for long be content with much apparent disorder, or at 
least temporary grouping and labelling, for it represents the current state and 
progress of the geology of India, which is far from having approached completion. 
The collection is not even up to date, for hitherto it has been necessary to dis¬ 
courage the collection of rock and mineral specimens for want of place to keep 
them in. 
The geological galleries of the Museum have been open to the public since the 
1st January of this year. 
H. B. MEDLICOTT, 
Calcutta, 
January 1878. 
Supdt. of Geological Survey of India. 
List of Societies and other 
donation or exchange 
the year 1877. 
Amsterdam.— 
Belfast.—^ 
Berlin.— 
Bombay.- 
Boston.- 
Breslau.- 
Budapest.- 
Bupfalo.- 
Calcutta.- 
COPENHAGEN.- 
Davenpokt.- 
Dresdbn.- 
Dublin.- 
Edinbuegh.- 
Geneva.- 
Institidions from which publications have been received in 
for the Library of the Geological Survey of India during 
•Royal Society of Batavia. 
Natural History and Philosophical Society. 
German Geological Society. 
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. 
-Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 
■American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
Boston Society of Natural History. 
Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
-Silesian Society of Natural History. 
-Roj^al Geological Institute of Hungary. 
-Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 
-Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
Meteorological Survey. 
-Royal Danish Academy. 
-Academy of Natural Sciences. 
-The Isis Society. 
-Royal Irish Academy. 
-Royal Scottish Society of Arts. ’ 
Royal Society. 
-Physical and Natural History Society. 
