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LIBRARY.

Your Committee have great satisfaction in bringing under the notice of the Council the judicious manner in which the Library has been arranged by Mr. Lonsdale. The whole of the volumes have been ticketed, lettered, and numbered, and to each of these a reference has been made in the Catalogue. The works have been distributed under the following heads:—

Letters.

1. Transactions ……………. A, B, C, D.

2. Proceedings  ……………. E.

3. Periodicals  ……………. F and G.

4. General Treatises on Geology . . H.

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5. Practical Geology  ……………. I, J.

6. Mineralogy  ……………. K.

7. Crystallography, Metallurgy, &c. . . L.

8. Topography  ……………. M.

9. Chemistry  ……………. N.

10. Physics, &c.  ……………. P.

11 . Natural History  ……………. R.

Your Committee have further to call the attention of the Council to the catalogue of all the Geological works and treatises in the Library, which also has been constructed by Mr. Lonsdale for the most part since the last Report. This important catalogue, which is bound and ready for use, is distributed in six folio volumes, viz.

Topography, 4 vols.; General Treatises, 1 vol.; Works and Memoirs on Organic Remains, 1 vol.

The collection of Maps has received some valuable additions, among which may be specified the Geological Map of France, of Messrs. Elie de Beaumont and Dufrenoy; a series of Charts from the Admiralty; and the newly published sheets of the Ordnance Surveys and the Survey of India.

G. B. GREENHOUGH.

C. DARWIN.

E. H. BUNBURY.