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REPORT OF THE 



apparatus having beeu found insufficient for the purpose, and 

 not perfectly secure. 



The Council have had much pleasure in observing the steadily 

 increasing attraction which the Museum and Gardens have 

 presented to the public. This increase has manifested itself 

 in a largely augmented income from the sale of tickets, 

 notwithstanding the great additional facilities of admission 

 granted by the Council to thousands of visitors, who have 

 been attracted to the city through the accommodation afford- 

 ed to them by the Railway Companies. 



Extracts from the Report of the Keeper of the Museum. 



Reference was made in the Report of last year to the desi- 

 rableness of displaying in the Museum a duplicate series of 

 Yorkshire Fossils, arranged in the order of their natural 

 affinities. This plan, which originated with Professor Phillips, 

 has within the last six months been partly carried into execu- 

 tion. Several hundred species of fossils, principally obtained 

 from the coast, and from the Oolite quarries of Malton and 

 Pickering, are now exhibited in the raised central case of the 

 Geological Room, which has been found admirably adapted for 

 the purpose. The classification adopted is the same as that 

 followed by Professor Phillips in his synoptical table of the 

 organic remains of Yorkshire. Great care has been taken in 

 the selection of the most perfect fossils that could be pro- 

 cured, and, whenever practicable, the specimens are mounted on 

 tablets labelled with the name under which each species is 

 described, its locality and stratigraphical position, and a re- 

 ference to the work in which a figure or description is to be 

 found. It is hoped that this series may ultimately include 

 characteristic specimens of all the procurable published and 

 unpublished iuvertebral fossils of Yorkshire. 



