in arrang-ing them. With the help of Sowerby's 

 " Mineral Concholog-y,'* and Lindley and Hutton's 

 •* Fossil Flora," Mr. Simpson has been enabled to re- 

 arrange and label the whole of the fossils of the dis- 

 trict — to draw up a full list — and, by appropriate 

 names to such as have recently been discovered, has 

 assigned them a place in the fossil nomenclature. It 

 would be desirable that this, and also a catalogue of 

 the minerals, and indeed of the general contents of 

 the Museum, should be inserted in the printed records 

 of the Society, as a table of reference for Members 

 who might incline to study any branch of the sciences 

 of geology, mineralogy, or natural history. Until 

 such be made out, and the several specimens in the 

 various departments be numerically, as well as strati- 

 graphically arranged, your Council consider the 

 object for which Mr. Simpson's services were en- 

 gaged, only half accomplished; besides, that hardly 

 any thing has been yet done in entomology, in the 

 shape of classification. Convinced that these de- 

 ficiencies can best be supplied, and the interest of the 

 Society promoted, by the continued supervision of 

 one so well qualified as Mr. Simpson, who gives 

 heart and hand to the task, it was with regret your 

 Council felt constrained, from the straitened state of 

 the fundvS, to give that gentleman notice, that at the 

 close of this year his services are to be dispensed with 

 — services at no previous period more indispensable 

 than at the present, and such as no other Member of 

 the Society could have leisure to render, and few only 

 the ability and patience so to do.* 



♦ Since the above was written, Mr« Simpson has been engaged for another year. 



