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of the funds, the Council have been unable to 

 make any considerable purchases of specimens, 

 they are happy to report that through the 

 liberality of the members and friends of the 

 Society, several valuable additions have been 

 made to the Museum, during the past year, in 

 the various departments of Natural History, 

 especially in Ornithology. The Council would 

 again call upon the activity of the members, 

 especially those whose commercial pursuits con- 

 nect them with foreign countries, to use their 

 influence in procuring from such places, through 

 their agents, some of the natural productions of 

 foreign climes. It is by no means needful to 

 search for the rarest or most splendid specimens, 

 but to transmit generally whatever may offer. 

 Collections in this manner might be formed at 

 little or no pecuniary sacrifice to the parties 

 themselves, while it would be conferring on the 

 Society one of the greatest services. Any in- 

 structions respecting the modes of transmitting 

 specimens, would be gladly given on application 

 at the Hall. But while endeavouring to procure 

 the products of other and more remote regions, 

 the Council are not unmindful of those belonging 

 to Britain, and especially to our own county, 

 which they conceive of paramount importance, as 

 the value of a British or local Tauna must be felt 



