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Members of the Society, and the unabated interest 

 manifested by former benefactors, to enlarge its stores, 

 and extend its usefulness. 



The thanks of the Society are more particularly 

 due to W. P. Foster, Esq., Surgeon, R. N., who has 

 presented some fine specimens in the natural history 

 department, together with a variety of curiosities 

 from Jamaica and Demerara, all in a high state of 

 preservation. 



The Misses Belcher have also a claim to your 

 grateful acknowledgments, by the donation of a 

 large assortment of curiosities, some of them from 

 Southern x4frica. 



Captain John Becroft is entitled to your thanks, 

 by the donation of 500 shells of divers genera, and 

 other miscellaneous curiosities, from Fernando-Po. 



The names of other benefactors are to be seen in 

 the list of donations. 



After a careful examination of the contents of the 

 Museum, many departments will be found defective- 

 more especially those of natural history : and, indeed, 

 the series of organic fossils belonging to our own 

 neighbourhood, is hardly complete. It would answer 

 a good purpose, if a list of the desiderata could be 

 made out; and opportunities might daily offer of 

 procuring them. As to specimens in zoology and 

 entomology of other climates, of which we have so 

 slender a collection ; as also fossils, both organic and 

 mineral, from other countries; these might be conveni- 

 ently procured by an exchange of Whitby fossils, which 

 here are so accessible, and would be rare and invalu- 

 able acquisitions to Institutions like ours, in distant 



