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of some of the rarest and most beautiful of the 

 Russian and Siberian Minerals have been procured, 

 which it is highly improbable that another 

 opportunity of acquiring would ever again have 

 occurred. This splendid proof of the interest 

 taken in the Museum by the Members generally, 

 encourages the Council confidently to hope, that 

 when the Hall shall again be opened for public 

 inspection, and the friends of the Society have an 

 opportunity of seeing the ample means afforded for 

 the display of any marks of their liberality which 

 they may be inclined to deposit there, the very 

 large space they have now to report vacant will 

 not long remain unoccupied. Specimens in all the 

 differetit branches of Zoology will be particularly 

 acceptable. And in every other department there is 

 room for the advantageous arrangement, not only of 

 every thing we now possess, but also of a very large 

 additional number of articles. So that all cause 

 for the complaint, that specimens or curiosities 

 sent to the Hall were not exhibited, which has 

 deprived the Museum of many valuable accessions, 

 will, from henceforth, be entirely removed. 



The scientific and literary proceedings of the 

 Society are by no means inferior in interest to those 

 of former years. Two Courses of Lectures hav6 

 been delivered during the Session. The subject 

 of the first was ** The Invertebral Animals," for 



