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" A Collection of Fossils, from the Magnesian Limestone and the 

 Stonesfield Slate" — by the Rev. William Richardson, of 

 Ferrybridge. 



" A Collection of 74 Specimens of Zoophytes and Shells, from the 

 Mountain Limestone" — ^by Mr. Sparke George. 



« Several recent British Zoophytes^—by Mr. T. P. Teale. 



" Very fine Pair of the Argus Pheasant" — ^by A. Melly, Esq., of 

 Liverpool. 



" Several Fossil Shells from the neighbourhood of Palermo" — ^by 

 Mr. Robert Hall, (Secretary.) 



The Council will not omit this opportunity of observ- 

 ing that the present arrangement of the museum scarcely 

 permits a sufficient exhibition of the less striking but, in 

 the mass, equally important additions to its treasures. 

 The state of the Society's finances has compelled them 

 to pass by an opportunity which will never return, of 

 adding to the buildings of the Institution : it will pro- 

 bably be found, on a careful survey of the space which 

 is at present available, that a rearrangement would afford 

 ample room for the sufficient display of the Collections 

 in every department. No such arrangement can, how- 

 ever, be undertaken, until the Council have a consider- 

 able sum available for that purpose : meanwhile, many 

 valuable collections are necessarily hidden, in a manner, 

 which renders them as useless as if they were not in 

 existence, and the contributors to the Museum are left 

 to put the most unfavourable construction on the con- 

 cealment to which their donations are consigned. 



The first Fasciculus of the Society's transactions, which 

 was announced in the last annual report, is now in the 

 printer's hands : it will be illustrated by numerous plates 



