8 REPORT OF THE 



By thus employing to the greatest advantage the Collections 

 already made, the Council conceive that the Society is 

 strengthening its claim on the Members and the Public for 

 increased assistance and co-operation. 



In the Geological department there have been no donations 

 calling for particular notice, but the Council have the pleasure 

 of reporting a general augmentation of the Collection, especially 

 in the Fossils of the Carboniferous Limestone and in the 

 Tertiary group. 



Valuable additions have been made to the Eocene Hampshire 

 Fossils, and the Keeper of the Museum, during his visit to 

 Suffolk in July last, obtained a very large Collection of the 

 Fossils of the Crag, especially from the older or Coralline beds. 



The Council have been glad to accede to an application from 

 Mr. Edwards, on behalf of the Palseontographical Society, for 

 permission to borrow some of the new species in the Hampshire 

 Collection, in order to figure them in the Monograph of 

 British Eocene MoUusca, upon which that gentleman is now at 

 work. Several of the Oolitic Echinodermata have also been 

 entrusted to Prof. E. Forbes to assist him in the investigation 

 of the species of this class, which he has undertaken as Palaeon- 

 tologist to the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. 



Considerable progress has been made in the extension of the 

 Collection of British Marine Recent Shells. The written 

 labels have been replaced with neatly printed ones, and above 

 100 species, of which previously the Society possessed no ex- 

 amples, have been added to our series by the British Natural 

 History Society. These include some of the rarest known 

 British Shells — among them are Fusus Norvegicus, in fine 

 condition, obtained by Mr. D. Ferguson, from the Yorkshire 

 Coast ; Fusus Turtoni, dredged off the Northumbrian Coast 

 by Mr. Howes, of Newcastle ; a living specimen of Tellina 

 balaustrina, dredged alive by Professor Melville, in Galway 

 Bay : Aclis supranitida, from Southport ; and a considerable 

 number of the rarer forms among the Genera Rissoa, Odosto- 

 mia, Mangelia, &c. Great pains have been taken by the 

 Keeper of the Museum to insure accuracy in the determination 

 of the species by personal or written communication in doubtful 



