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and expressed a strong desire to engage with us in 

 this kind of friendly traffic. 



The Society's collection of Recent Shells being 

 very deficient, the Council, during the spring and 

 summer^ embraced the opportunity of enlarging it, 

 by procuring a great number of rare and beautiful 

 specimens from a respectable dealer, to the amount 

 of about £20 value. Of this amount, the greater 

 part was paid in duplicate Fossils, Birds, and Shells ; 

 and the rest in money. The collection of Shells, thus 

 improved, has been arranged and labelled by Mr. 

 Young, who has devoted much time to this useful 

 task. 



The new classification of the Fossils and Rock 

 Specimens, so long contemplated, will soon, it is 

 hoped, be at length accomplished. The Council have 

 long been proposing, to make up a Collection of Fos- 

 sils for sale in London, with a view to raise money 

 for purchasing Glass-cases; and this idea being 

 warmly encouraged by a Gentleman of London, well 

 knot In in the literary world, who lately honoured us 

 with a visit, and who has kindly promised his best 

 services in promoting this object, it is intended to be 

 forthwith carried into effect. A collection of three or 

 four hundred good specimens, properly arranged into 

 a series, and correctly named, a great part of which 

 might be furnished out of our duplicates, may be 

 expected to produce from sixty to one hundred' 

 pounds ; which will be sufficient to accomplish the 

 object in view. Several men of science who have 

 visited our Museum, have complained of the want of a 



