In this year, as in the former, few additions 

 have been made to our collection by purchase; 

 but many have been obtained by gift, as the 

 List of Donations will shew; and a few, also, 

 have been procured by the sale or exchange 

 of duplicates. In this last way, we have 

 obtained some valuable Fossils^ two or three 

 interesting Books, and an assortment of six- 

 teen of the Saxon Stycas lately found at 

 Hexham. Among the few articles purchased, 

 may be noticed a rare Bird, the Colymbus 

 glacialis, or Great Northern Diver, which was 

 taken alive on this coast, and has been 

 prepared for the Museum, by Mr. Chapman 

 of York. 



In the department of Ornithology, more 

 important acquisitions require to be noticed. 

 From Thomas Brodrick, Esq., the Society 

 has received a collection of nearly forty Birds, 

 several of them rare and beautiful; besides 

 fifteen other specimens in Natural History, 

 including a Skeleton of the Narwhal, with the 

 Horn attached. 



The Rt. Hon. The Countess Dowager of 

 Mulgrave has presented a fine specimen of 

 the African Touraco {Mnsophaga Persa)^ 

 the Mountain Parrot {Trichoglossus hcema- 

 iopits)y and three other beautiful foreign Birds; 

 and the Hon. Lady Sophia Phipps, a rich 



