research which it has awakened ; and they find no reason 

 to regret the rule which they have laid down to themselves, 

 of relying, for the augmentation of the Geological part of the 

 Museum, chiefly on the individual exertions of the Members 

 of the Society, and the liberality of those who are willing to 

 contribute to its objects. 



To foreign Geology this principle has not been thought 

 equally applicable ; and the Council had no hesitation in 

 availing itself of an offer, made through the intervention 

 of one of the honorary Members of the Society,* by his 

 Excellency Baron Von Struve, to purchase, at Brunswick, a 

 very instructive series of specimens from the Mountains of 

 the Harz, and from the Volcanic and Trap districts of 

 Germany, Iceland, and the Azores. 



In addition to what has been thus acquired by donation 

 and purchase, there has lately been placed as a deposit in 

 the cabinets of the Society, the private collection of 

 Comparative Anatomy, belonging to the Curator t of that 

 department ; a collection rendered peculiarly interesting by 

 the illustration it affords of those fossil remains of ante- 

 diluvian animals, which occupy the most prominent place 

 in the Society's Museum. 



The space necessarily occupied by such an accumulation 

 of specimens as has thus accrued from various sources, and 



* Thomas Meade, esq. of Chatley, near Bath. + James Atkinson, esq. York. 



