SIXTEENTH REPORT. 



The year which has elapsed since our last Anniver- 

 sary, has been peculiarly a year of business and of 

 progress. The anticipations expressed in the 15th 

 Report have, to a great extent, been realized, and 

 the prospects of the Institution are fully more 

 cheering than at any former period. 



.The long contemplated improvements in the 

 Museum, have at length been carried into effect. 

 Early in the present year, various steps were taken 

 for that purpose. It was resolved to proceed with 

 a stratigraphical, as well as a natural, arrangement 

 of the Fossils, and with the selection of a quantity 

 of duplicates for sale. To facilitate these objects, 

 which could not be attained without much labour 

 and attention, the Council, on the recommenda- 

 tion of Dr. Young, engaged the services of Mr. 

 Martin Simpson, as Keeper of the Museum, and 

 Lecturer to the Institution ; considering that gen- 

 tleman as well qualified for the task of arranging 

 and labelling the specimens, and for promoting 

 the general interests of the Society. The Council 

 then agreed to have the back part of the Museum 

 fitted up with a new series of shelves, on a plan 

 proposed by Mr. Simpson ; to have a large propor- 

 tion of the Fossils of the Yorkshire Coast arranged 

 on these shelves in stratigraphical order ; and to 



