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Esq., have been received various teeth and bones from the 

 Kirkdale Cave, which will be very acceptable to the Society, 

 as this celebrated cave has long ceased to furnish specimens to 

 the palaeontologist. Mr. Wood, of Richmond, has presented 

 additional examples of the remarkable Encrinite discovered by 

 him in the Mountain Limestone of that district.* An eminent 

 foreign naturalist, M. de Koninck, by whom it has been 

 described and figured, regards it as constituting a new genus, 

 for which he proposes the name Woodocrinus. From Mr. Wood 

 the Society has also received in exchange a remarkable fossil 

 fish, probably of an undescribed species, from the Magnesian 

 limestone of Ferry Hill. To Mr. Leckenby, of Scarborough, 

 the Society is indebted for a beautiful specimen of the rare 

 fossil fern, Orthopteris Beanii, from the oolitic shale of 

 Gristhorpe ; to Mr. Bainbridge, junior, for a semi-fossil bone 

 of a large whale from the neighbourhood of Selby ; and from 

 the B-ev. Geo. Bow it has received in exchange a new species 

 of Trigonia from the oolitic iron-stone of Marsk, a locality 

 which promises to yield other novelties to the collector. 



The Zoological Department has been enriched by a donation 

 from Wm. Hewitson, Esq., of a beautiful and valuable collec- 

 tion of foreign butterflies, all named and in high preservation. 

 John Lister, Esq., of Doncaster, has presented, through 

 Mr. O. A. Moore, a remarkable specimen of the gigantic 

 sponge (Baphiophora patera) commonly called " Neptune's 

 Cup." This sponge fills an important gap in the Society's 

 collections, as it is a recent species, presenting important points 

 of agreement with some of the fossil sponges of Flamborough 

 contained in the Museum. From W. C. Warren, Esq., of 

 Dublin, the Society has received several rare British marine 

 shells ; from Professor Melville, of Queen's College, Galway, 

 fine examples of Caryophyllia Smithii, and from Mr. James 

 Backhouse, the rare and lately discovered British shell Limnsea 

 Burnetti. 



It has long been a subject of regret with the Council that 

 the visitor to the Natural History Department of the Museum, 



* See Keport for 18.'i2. 



