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perga near Turin. This liberal proposal, it is almost 

 needless to say, was gladly accepted, and upwards of 

 two hundred specimens, in a high state of preservation, 

 were received. These have proved a great acquisition, 

 not so much as specimens from a foreign locality, but 

 as forming a group in the Tertiary Series (the Marine 

 formation of the Miocene Period), of which the Mu- 

 seum was quite destitute. To the superficial or allu- 

 vial deposits, has been added a nearly perfect Horn of 

 a species of Deer (probably the Cervus Elephas), found 

 in excavating for a building at St. Peter's Hill. This, 

 when taken in connexion with remains previously re- 

 ceived from the same locality, is of high interest to 

 the Geologist: serving as it does to demonstrate, if 

 not a change in the course of the river Aire, at least 

 an entire submersion of this part of the country at 

 some not very remote period; for from the vegetable 

 reliquse, such as branches, hazel nuts, &c. which have 

 been exhumed before, it is highly probable the animal 

 was submerged in its native forest. In all probability, 

 as this line of country is gradually broken up for the 

 purpose of building ground, more remains will be dis- 

 covered; it is, therefore, most desirable that Members 

 of the Society should exert themselves to secure for 

 the Museum such as may occur. In the Cretaceous 

 System many additions will be observed, as the Sponges 

 from the Yorkshire Coast, and the Ichthyological Re- 

 mains and Shells from the Chalk of Cambridgeshire. 



