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Society, which complete the analogy presumed between these 

 and the corresponding Strata in other parts of England, 

 and include also some undescribed varieties. Of similar 

 Geological interest are the peculiar shells discovered by an 

 Honorary Member* in a bed above the Alum-shale, which 

 had not been previously distinguished. The Society's 

 collection of fossil plants from the Coal-field of the West- 

 Riding, has been greatly improved by a donation of speci- 

 mens from the author of the " Antediluvian Phytology :"t 

 and a Sandstone cast of Syringodcndron, between five and six 

 feet in height and thirty inches in diameter, removed from the 

 quarry at Altofts under the direction of the donor | and the 

 Officers of the Society, stands in the Museum, in the position in 

 which it was found, a gigantic monument of ancient vegetation. 

 The list of Organic Fossils, strictly termed Antediluvian, has 

 also been further augmented by numerous remains of the 

 Elephant, from the South-eastern coast of Yorkshire. 



Of the Geological contributions from more distant parts, 

 there are several which deserve particular notice. Among 

 these are the various Fossils found by one of the recently 

 elected members § of the Society, in the shale accompanying 

 the mountain limestone in Northumberland ; and the speci- 

 mens from Sutherland, of the strata in which the Brora 

 coal is worked, identical, in theopinion of the donor || and Dr. 

 Buckland, with those which form the North-eastern moorlands 

 of this County. To the Secretary of the Geological Society, 

 the Museum has been further indebted, for a numerous suite 

 of specimens, from the different beds of the basin of Paris ; 



» Mr. Bean, of Scarborongh. f E. T. Artis, Esq, F.G.S. 



J The Rev. S. Sharp, Vicar of Wakefield. 



^ The Rev. C. V. Vernon. 1| C. Ljell, Esq. Sec. G. S. 



