REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR I917. 
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Geology. —The work of overhauling the exhibits, cleaning, 
re-mounting, and re-labelling them has proceeded regularly 
under Mr. Watson and Miss Holmes. The re-arrangement 
of exhibits has provided more space for fresh specimens, and 
the general conditions of the galleries has been improved by 
the work of re-decoration. It is now intended to increase the 
exhibits of minerals from specimens not hitherto shown. 
Library. —The work of preparing the new catalogue has 
been steadily proceeded with in spite of some difficulty in 
getting supplies of “slips,” and the “ title ” and “subject” 
indices have been completed for the volumes now lodged in 
the Library and Council Room. 
The^ list of Serial Publications received by donation, ex¬ 
change, or purchase, remains unchanged. 
A few copies of the earlier Annual Reports of the Society 
have been obtained, including one for 1823, but the stock of 
these which we hold is still too small to allow us to complete 
the set now in the British Museum. 
Since our last Annual Report we have purchased for 
the Reference Library three costly illustrated works, viz. 
Hawkins’ Medallic Illustrations to English History, Edition 
1885, also Sowerby’s Botany, a reprint of the 3rd Edition, and 
Cooke’s Coloured Illustrations of “ British Fungi.” 
To the Section on Ornithology has been added the Mono¬ 
graph by J. H. Gurney on the Gannet, and Saunder’s British 
Birds. 
On the recommendation of the Curator of Entomology we 
have purchased Richard South’s three volumes on “ Moths 
and Butterflies of the British Isles.” 
But it is principally in the Section devoted to Botany, which 
is so peculiarly weak, that additions have been made both by 
donation and purchase. We may note Mrs. Gregory’s ‘'British 
Violets,” J. C. Willis’ “ Flowering Plants and Ferns,” and 
“ Histor}^ of Botany in England,” by Reynolds Green. On 
“ Mosses,” the works of R. Braithwaite and W. C. Jameson. 
George Massee's latest work on the “Diseases of Plants,” and 
his “ British Fungus Flora,” in four volumes. 
