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Snakes, from Australia. A competent person has been employed 

 to set up the numerous skins of Foreign Birds in the possession of 

 the Society, previous to a complete new arrangement of the whole. 



The additions to the collection of Comparative Osteology consist 

 of twenty-nine skeletons of Foreign Mammalia, presented by Mr. 

 AUis, the Curator ; which, added to the valuable series previously 

 in the possession of the Society, will make this collection, under the 

 new arrangement, one of the most interesting in the Museum. 



The Curator of British Botany has completed the Classification 

 of the Herbarium, commenced by his precedessor, the Rev, W. 

 Hincks, so far as regards the flowering Plants, and is proceeding 

 with the Ferns. This collection is now in admirable order, and 

 from the mode of its arrangement may be at any time conveniently 

 referred to. 



In return for some assistance in his enquiries relating to the 

 Saxon Coinage, obtained from the cabinet of the Society by Mr. 

 D. H. Haigh, of Leeds, that gentleman has presented to the 

 Society upwards of one hundred and twenty Silver Coins, com- 

 prising several of the Visigoth Kings, some of the Saxon period, 

 and many belonging to the English Series. More than one hundred 

 and fifty English Coins, chiefly modern, in Gold, Silver, and Copper, 

 were likewise presented by the late Dr. Beckwith, not long before 

 his death ; and some beautiful impressions of Foreign Seals have 

 been received from Edward Hailstone, Esq., of Bradford. Mr. R. 

 Ready, of Leeds, having been allowed the use of the Matrices of 

 the Ancient Seals in the possession of the Society, has in return 

 presented a considerable number of casts of other Seals, principally 

 connected with religious and other institutions of Yorkshire. 



The Northumbrian Stycas mentioned in the last Report as part 

 of a hoard recently discovered in York, have been purchased, partly 

 by the proceeos of three Lectures on the state of York under the 

 Anglo-Saxons, delivered by the Curator of Antiquities in the 

 Theatre of the Museum, and partly by voluntary Subscriptions ; and 

 they now form an interesting and very instructive portion of the 

 Cabinet of Coins belonging to the Society. 



The Roman and other Antiquities have been for the most part 

 removed to the room now appropriated for them, and are at present 

 under arrangement by the Curator. 

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