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Many of these are of extremely rare occurrence ; some are 

 unique ; and several specimens are the originals of the figures 

 in Mr. Curtis's splendid work on British Insects. 

 ' The naming and arrangement of this extremely valuable 

 collection in the Entomological Cabinet is now in progress, 

 under the able superintendence of Mr. Meynell, a continuation 

 of labours of a similar kind for which the Society is indebted 

 to the same zealous member. 



The Society has through the intervention of the Naturalist 

 Club received two masses of Calcareous grit from Newton Dale, 

 exhibiting impressions of Star-fish, and constituting a very 

 desirable addition to the fine series of Asteriadse, from the 

 Yorkshire Oolite already in the Museum. 



To Mrs. Watson, of Thorpe, near Pocklington, the Society 

 is indebted for the Tibia of an Elephant, found at Harswell, 

 on the estate of Sir Chas. Slingsby, in digging for marie. This 

 specimen is quite perfect, and in the highest state of preserva- 

 tion. Though scarcely at all mineralised, it weighs 20 pounds, 

 and measures round its upper extremity 23 inches. 



The Collections of Tertiary Fossils and recent British Shells 

 have been enriched by further contributions from the British 

 Natural-History Society. 



The series of shells obtained from the Hampshire Tertiary 

 beds (now exhibited in the Museum) includes 320 species, 

 about 150 of which are new or unfigured as British Fossils. 

 Of the generic types, among which these 150 species are distri- 

 buted, upwards of 20 are not yet recorded in systematic works 

 as known in British Eocene Strata. With a view of making 

 some of the minute shells in this collection instructive to 

 general visitors, a series of magnified figures, of the whole 

 of the small species, is in the course of preparation by 

 Mr. Smith (late a pupil at the School of Design in York), 

 under the direction of the Keeper of the Museum, and a plan, 

 of mounting the figures and specimens together, has been 

 adopted, which efiectually protects both from dust or other 

 accidents, and at the same time allows the latter to be closely 

 examined. A series of these species so mounted is displayed in 

 the Museum. 



