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In last, year's Report allusion was made to an 

 application which was in progress on behalf of the 

 Society, to raise, by voluntary contributions, a fund for 

 the purpose of enabling the Curators to make certain 

 improvements in the rooms of the Society devoted to 

 the Museum. This call has been most effectually and 

 liberally responded to, not only by the members, but 

 by the public, and the sum of £1,020. 9s. has been 

 subscribed, by which means very important alterations 

 have been effected. The long room, which was for- 

 merly appropriated to the reception of antiquities and 

 works of art, has been rendered more lofty. A new 

 roof, with three lanthom lights, has been substituted 

 for the old one, and the side windows closed up, 

 the want of a vertical light in this room having been 

 long felt. Against the walls, new upright cases, upon 

 the most approved principle, have been placed, by which 

 means ample space is provided for the entire suite of 

 organic remains already in the Society's possession, 

 and which not only allow of their being inspected to 

 greater advantage than heretofore, but by forming a 

 continuous series, the student is enabled to view, in 

 their relative connexion, the different groups charac- 

 teristic of each formation — from the superficial and 

 alluvial accumulations to the rocks of the silurian 

 system. In the geological collection several valu- 



