O REPOIIT OF THE 



Besides supplying other public Establishments with dupli- 

 cate specimens from Kirkdale, Mr. Salmond retained a few 

 for his own examination. At his death, these were purchased 

 for the Society, and such of them as appeared requisite to 

 complete its collection, have been placed in the Museum ; the 

 remainder have been presented by the Council to the Literary 

 and Philosophical Society of Leeds. When the Yorkshire 

 Museum was built, the Council marked their respect for Mr. 

 Atkinson by appropriating one of the upper rooms to receive 

 his anatomical collections. These have now become the pro- 

 perty of the York Medical School, and the large room which 

 they filled is at the disposal of the Curators for augmenting 

 the public exhibitions. 



This is an important consideration ; for in consequence of 

 the increase of the collections in several departments enlarged 

 space is absolutely required for their proper classification. 

 The geological cases are full, and it is impossible to defer 

 much longer the execution of a plan which has been for some 

 time under consideration, by which the Foreign specimens 

 may be separated from the British series, and perhaps a 

 foundation laid for an arrangement of Organic Remains, in 

 the order of their natural affinities. 



The principal additions made to the zoological collections 

 are in the departments of Ornithology and Conchology. 

 There is not any want of new cases for these collections, yet 

 it appears desirable to take advantage of the additional room 

 now placed at the disposal of the Council, and to provide 

 larger means for the distribution of Birds, and a separate 

 place for the collection of Comparative Osteology. 



Of this valuable series of skeletons and other preparations 

 of vertebrated animals, Mr. AUis presents this day the first 

 part of an arranged catalogue ; and the Council think that if 



