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those officers whose particular departments passed 

 under review. The service to science rendered by 

 our Museum in supplying M. Agassiz not only with 

 some smaller objects of illustration, but also an im- 

 portant and unique link in his work on fossil icthyology, 

 can scarcely be sufficiently appreciated in a country 

 where the general tendency of our pursuits and occu- 

 pations induces us most naturally to measure value 

 merely by the pecuniary scale. As a memorial of the 

 visit, and a tribute of respect to the visitors, this So- 

 ciety has since had the satisfaction of enrolling them 

 among its honorary members. 



After what has just been said, it is needless to 

 urge further the importance of so characteristic a 

 branch of this Institution as its Museum : and in this 

 respect the Council haye again to acknowledge the 

 continued support of many valued friends. Mr. Nun- 

 NELEY, in presenting the forty-six preparations illustra- 

 tive of his Paper on Limaces, read before one of the 

 Private Meetings, has dedicated to public use the 

 fruits of many a toilsome hour, in which patience and 

 perseverance must have been added to ingenuity and 

 dexterity, and has given one more proof of the gener- 

 ous, open spirit of modern science. The collection 

 illustrative of local geology, the cultivation of which 

 was particularly urged by the illustrious visitors already 

 alluded to, have been much enriched by a large and 

 valuable collection of fossil plants from the coal mea- 

 sures, presented by Mr. Bedford, of Gildersome, 

 through the medium of Mr. Sparke George, who 



