of the community, the name of Dr. Williamson will be 

 long remembered, not only by his surviving coadjutors, 

 but by the town at large. 



Although the individual contributions to the 

 Museum of the Society this Session have been less 

 numerous than usual, this is amply compensated for 

 by the interest and importance of some accessions. 

 Amongst the most valuable may be mentioned the dona- 

 tion of invertebrate animals from the Bay of Messina, 

 including the fine specimen of the Argonauta Argo, 

 with its Shell, Ova, &c., from Andrew Melly, Esq., 

 of Liverpool, a gentleman well-known in the scientific 

 world, to whom the Society have, on former occasions, 

 been indebted for donations to the Museum ; as a 

 slight mark, therefore, of their sense of his liberality, 

 the Council proposed his enrolment amongst their Hon- 

 orary Members ; and he was accordingly elected. 



The well-known and extensive Geological collec- 

 tion of the late Miss Benett, of Norton House, 

 Wilts, having been oflFered for sale to the Society, the 

 Council, though fully sensible that acquisitions of vast 

 importance to the Museum were thus placed within 

 their reach, could not, nevertheless, sanction any 

 appropriation of the Society's funds for this purpose, 

 and were, therefore, compelled to decline so advanta- 

 geous an oflPer. Two Members of the Society, J. G. 

 Marshall and John Blayds, Esqrs., most zealously 

 undertook the task^,D^aising the required amount 



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