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the Society may be gradually improved, and its im- 

 portance and usefulness be more widely appreciated by 

 the public. 



The Council are not able to record, in their present 

 Report, that the Contributions to the Museum have been 

 so numerous, or of such importance, as those which 

 distinguished the past year; nevertheless several in- 

 terestuig additions have been made. They do not, 

 however, view this as any proof of a want of interest 

 towards this department, but simply arising from causes 

 which must always, more or less, affect such institutions. 

 No objects of extraordinary value or attraction have 

 been offered to the Society, which might have called 

 forth the usual liberality of the Members when any 

 appeal is made, except one specimen of Plesiosaurus, at 

 Whitby, 23 feet in length, the largest known example, 

 but which required for its purchase a sum far above 

 what could be raised by a provincial institution. 

 Amongst the additions to the Museum during the 

 Session, the Council cannot, however, omit to mention 

 the two Scapulae of the Greenland Whale, and a 

 Camel's Skull, presented by George Noble, Esq. ; the 

 Skeleton of the Black Bear, from the Leeds Zoological 

 and Botanical Gardens, and the donation of Indian Fish, 

 from Edw. Atkinson, Esq. 



The accessions to the Library chiefly consist of the 

 last edition of Dr. Pye Smith's Scripture and Geology, 

 presented by the author, and a donation of standard Bo- 



