gave no small satisfaction to the respectable audi- 

 ence who attended the course. The proprietors 

 of the Library, as on some former occasions, liber- 

 ally granted the Lecturer the gratuitous use of 

 their Rooms. 



Owing to the state of your finances, the Council 

 have not felt themselves warranted to proceed with 

 putting Glass Cases along the back wall of the 

 Museum; an improvement greatly required for 

 preserving the Collections now exposed. But as 

 many valuable skins of Indian and Australian 

 Birds and Quadrupeds have been for some time 

 kept shut up, it was resolved to have them properly 

 stuffed, and put in Cases. This has accordingly 

 been done, in a very satisfactory manner, by Mr. 

 Graham of Grinkel Park, at the comparatively 

 small expense of £7 10s. 



While the contents of the Museum supply a fund 

 of instruction and entertainment to the Members 

 and Friends of the Society, and to numerous Visit- 

 ors, it is gratifying to find that our Fossil stores 

 are much valued by men of science. We have 

 Saurian specimens of unrivalled excellence ; and 

 our Fossil Fishes are also highly prized, by those 

 who are well qualified to appreciate their worth. 

 A few weeks ago, our Museum was visited by Pro- 

 fessor Louis Agassiz, from Neufchatel, accompan- 

 ied by that eminent Geologist, Professor Buckland; 

 and at their special request, the Council have sent 

 nearly the whole of our Fossil Fishes to the Rooms 



