THK COUNCIL. 3 



and (o Dr. Biickland, for a very interesting donation, can- 

 sisting of some hair of the celebrated Siberian Mammoth, 

 set in fossil ivory remarkably unimpaired by the lapse of 

 ages ;* to which may be added a more recent specimen, 

 presented by Lord Millon, of the cranium and horns of an^ 

 extinct species of Bos, -which formerly inhabited this island. 

 Lastly, the extensive collection of rock-specimens from 

 Scotland, with which Ihe Society was favoured by Mr. 

 Witbam, has been still further enlarged by him; and a 

 complete geognostic series from Freyberg, illustrative of the 

 Wernerian system, as described in a memoir drawn up at 

 the Royal Saxon Depository of Minerals, has been contributed 

 hy Mr. Heuland. 



The accustomed liberality of this distinguished promoter 

 of mineralogical science, has also been shown in a munificent 

 present of two hundred valuable varieties of Minehals to the 

 Society's collection, which has been further augmented to 

 about the same amount, by two donations of American and 

 Vesuvian specimens from Mr. Wortley and Mr. Cooke. 



in Rec;ent Zoology, the flexible Corallines collected on the 

 Scarborough coast by Mr. Bean, furnish interesting materials 



* This ivory was worked from part of a tusk found in clay near Bridlington, and 

 presented to Dr. Buckland by the Council, The silver rim of the box bears the 

 following inscription : 



FLOCCVM. HVNC. DE. PELLE. PRIMAEVI. ELEPHANTIS. VSQVE. A, DILVVIO. IN 

 GLACIE. 8IBERICA. CONSTRICTI. EBORE. COAETANEO. PROPE. BRIDLINGTON. 

 EPFOSSO. MVNIVIT. ET. INTER. RARIORA. SOCIET. PBILOS. EBORAC. REPOSVIT. 

 GVL. BVCKLAND. EIV8DEM. SODALIS. HONORARIVS. SOC. GEOL. I.OND. PRAESES. 

 MIN. ET. GEOL. APVD. OXON. PROFESSOR. ET. AEDIS. XTI. CANOMCVS. 

 A. D. M. DCCC. XXV. 



