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Marlstone of the Yorkshire Coast. The Council have requested the 

 Keeper of the Museum, to watch the progress of the Railway excava- 

 tion near Bridlington, with a view to complete the History of the 

 interesting Tertiary deposit there, the fossils of which may now be seen 

 in the same case with the congenerous remains of the Suffolk Crag. 

 From beyond the limits of Yorkshire we have received a specimen of 

 part of the head of an imdescribed genus of quadrupeds, (allied to 

 Hyracotherium,) from Heme Bay, presented by Wm. Richardson, 

 Esq., and a great number of contributions from the Mountain Lime- 

 stone, Kimmeridge Clay, Chalk, London Clay, and the Tertiary beds 

 of the Isle of Wight. These contributions, filling fifty drawers, have 

 been obtained by a system of exchanges, which Mr. Charlesworth 

 has brought into action, and which he has supported chiefly by the 

 liberal appropriation of his own large series of duplicate Crag fossUs, 

 for the Society's collection yields in fact very few duplicates even 

 from Malton, Whitby, Speeton, or Flamborough. Another service 

 which Mr. Charlesworth has rendered to the Society, and to Geolo- 

 gists in general, is the compilation of an extensive catalogue of British 

 fossils and the preparation of it for the press in a form adapted to the 

 labelling of collections. The first part of this catalogue, embracing 

 the fossils of the tertiary formations, is nearly ready for publication. 

 During the past year some interesting additions have been made 

 to the Flora of Yorkshire,* and the zealous Curator of Botany ex- 

 presses his expectation of seeing the Herbarium (now conveniently 

 arranged for study,) much enlarged in respect of the rarer species. 

 He has drawn the attention of the Council to the insufficiency of 

 the Botanical part of the library, a defect certainly not confined to 

 that department of Natural History. Nor is the Antiquarian part of 

 the Library more complete. The Society has indeed received many 

 donations of valuable books ; it has purchased some of a beautiful 

 and costly character; it subscribes annually for a few periodical 

 works ; its shelves are full, but not so well filled as to attract many 

 readers to the Library. The Council are satisfied that these evils 

 may be remedied : they have resolved to render the Library more 

 conveniently accessible, by stationing in the room for certain hours 

 daily, a person to act as clerk, and register the issue and replacement 

 of books, and they will direct immediate attention to the completion 

 of the catalogue. 



♦See List of Papei-s read to the Society. 



