decline making any extensive application of the Ordinary 

 Funds of the Society for the purchase of Specimens, yet 

 the liberality of individual Members and Friends has 

 been almost unprecedented, very favourable opportunities 

 having occurred for making purchases, by which the Mu- 

 seum has been enriched. Amongst the additions, the nu- 

 merous and splendid group of Birds from the Himalaya 

 Mountains, all of them new to the Society's Museum, as 

 well as a most beautiful Specimen of the Lammer-geyer 

 or Bearded Vulture, a complete set of Casts of the 

 Regal Seals of England, and a series of Ichthyosaurian 

 Fossils from the Lias of Barrow-upon-Soar in Leicester- 

 shire, deserve particular mention. The names of the in- 

 dividuals to whose liberality the Society is indebted, will 

 be found in the annexed List of Donations. 



One of the most important features of the Museum, 

 is the attraction which it continues to afford to many 

 thousand visitors, many of whom are in the humbler 

 ranks of life, and who, by their decorous conduct, evince 

 the interest which they feel in the contemplation of the 

 wonderful remains of past ages, and the beauties of the 

 objects of Natural History. 



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