and the publications of Learned Societies, many separate works of importance, such, as:—
A portion of Pictet's ' Materiaux pour la Pale'ontologie Suisse,' containing a Monograph, of the Valangian beds of Arzier, by MM. Pictet and de Loriol ; M. Elie de Beaumont's ' Rapport sur les progres de Stratigraphie en Prance ; ' Sir Proby T. Cautley's ' Report on the Ganges Canal,' in 3 vols. 8vo, with a large folio Atlas of Plates, 2 copies, one presented by the author, the other by W. T Thornton, Esq. ; the Publications of the Musee Teyler, containing palseon- tological Memoirs by M. T. C. Winkler ; ' Materiaux pour la Carte geologique de la Suisse,' Livr. VI., containing a notice of the Ju- rassic strata of the Cantons de Vaud and Neuchatel, by M. Aug. Jaccard ; E. Favre's ' Description des Mollusqucs Eossiles de la Craie des environs de Lemberg en Galicie ; ' M. de Tchihatcheff's ' Asie Mineure, Ge'ologie,' Parts 2 and 3 ; Dr. Bigsby's ' Thesaurus Siluricus ' (2 copies) ; the fifth and concluding volume of M. von Kokscharow's ' Materialien zur Mineralogie Russlands ; ' and Mr. P. B. Smyth's ' Gold Eields and Mineral Districts of Victoria.'
A good many Maps and Plans have been added to the Society's Collection ; they include the Maps of the Geological Surveys of Victoria (3 sheets, with 2 plates of sections, &c), Austria (2 sheets), Sweden (5 sheets, with 5 parts of descriptions), and Switzerland (2 sheets); also Sir W. E. Logan's Geological Map of Canada (in 8 sheets), and the Maps of the Geological Society of the Middle Ehine (Lauterbach-Salzschlirf Section). Besides these the Society has received a great number of the Maps of the Ordnance Survey, and of Charts and Plans of sea-coasts, harbours, and channels in various parts of the world, from the Erench Depot de la Marine.
During the past year the Library has been completely examined and put in good working order ; the Catalogue has also been care- fully collated with the Books and corrected. New boxes have been provided for the loose numbers of the current periodicals.
Museum.
Some donations of specimens illustrative of papers read before the Society have been received. Several small Collections of Eossils which had been lying loose about the Museum, have been placed in new Trays and Store-boxes.
. WILTSHIRE..
J. GWYN JEFFREYS.
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