6 A BEPORT. 



lion tbej' feel, in having been the^ineans of inducing this able 

 and experienced geologist, to resume his examination of the 

 strata of Yorkshire ; the result of which has been, a further 

 developement of the intricate geological arrangement of the 

 eastern part of the county, and the identification of several 

 distinct beds in the Oolitic series, not before discriminated, 

 with those which are known in the southern course of the 

 strata. Mr. Smith is engaged in introducing these new 

 observations and corrections into his Geological Map of 

 Yorkshire ; and he entertains also an intention of publishing 

 the documents on which the colouring of that map is founded, 

 the valuable fruits of many years of laborious investigation. 



The Council, while they have paid especial attention to 

 objects thus near at home, have not been inattentive to the 

 principle of extending, where occasion has offered, the sphere 

 of the Society's operations. They have embraced an oppor- 

 tunity of sending a collection of duplicate fossils to the 

 Asiatic Society at Calcutta ; and they are at present engaged 

 in selecting specimens from the Yorkshire Oolitic coal field, 

 at the request of Professor Buckland, for the author of the 

 Flora der Vorwelt, Count Sternberg, to be placed in the 

 Public Museum under his superintendence at Prague. 



Upon the same principle of making the Society's acqui- 

 sitions as subservient as possible to the general interests of 

 science, the Council have lent to Professor Buckland some 

 rare specimens, of which he wished to have drawings made 

 for the use of himself and Mr. Conybeare ; and they have 

 promised to send some duplicates to the Museum at Oxford, 



