ntent of the fossil Bones and Teeth discovered 

 in the Kirkdale Cavemy surpassing in variety 

 every other assortment, except that of thef 

 Yorkshire Philosophical Society; a handsome 

 collection of Shells ; various specimens in other 

 departments of Natural History ; a few Book» 

 on Geology and other scientific subjects ; some 

 interesting Antiquities, chiefly belonging to 

 Whitby and the neighbourhood ; and a number 

 of miscellaneous Cui"iositi«s from various partsf 

 of the world. 



After the Rooms bad been prepared, and 

 the collections lodged in them, which was i» 

 the month of March, a considerable tim« was- 

 spent in arranging' the different articles into 

 their proper classes, and placing them in the 

 mos^t natural order; and the collection proving 

 more extensive than was expected, new accom-- 

 modal ions were required to be provided at the 

 Hooms, before the arrangement could be ac« 

 complished. Owing partly to these causes, and 

 partly to the circumstance that the task of 

 classifving principally devolved on one of the 

 Secretaries, whose time was^ otherwise much 

 engaged,, the Museum, though accessible fron> 

 the first to Members of the Society, was not 

 opened to the Public till the month of Septem- 

 ber ; when it began to be opened regdarly on^ 

 Tuesday* and Thursdays, under Regulation* 

 adopted by the Council, which, it is hoped, will 

 receive the approbation of this Meeting. 



