4 . RBPOttT OF 



ofstu(ly,ina department of natural history which has been 

 hitherto but little explored ; and the entomological donation 

 lately presented by the author of the Dendrologia Britan-f 

 nica,* including nearly two thousand British specimens, 

 many of which are rare, has a peculiar value from the circum- 

 stance of the Insects having been procured within the county 

 of York. 



The Council have only further to remark on the subject of 

 donations, that the Libuary has received contributions to the 

 amount of eighty volumes, and that many additions have 

 been made to the cabinet of Coins. 



The Purchases which have been effected out of the income 

 of the last year, have been considerable. Several favourable 

 opportunities have occurred of enriching the Museum ; and' 

 the Council, availing themselves of advantages not likely to' 

 recur, have expended about a hundred pounds, in the 

 acquisition chiefly of foreign minerals ; among these, the 

 specimens from North America, selected for the Society by 

 the obliging care of a resident Mineralogist, t and accom- 

 panied by an instructive catalogue, form, with Mr. Wortley's 

 donation, a complete collection of what has been hitherto 

 discovered in the United States. The cabinet of Coins also, 

 which was recently purchased, partly by subscription and 

 partly out of the Society's funds, has added an extraordinary 

 charge of fifty pounds to the expenses of the year. 



But these demands, together with those incurred for the 

 purchase of Books and Cases, for Printing, (the amount of 



* P. W. WatsoD, Esq. F,L.S. + Wm. Meade, M.D. of Philadelphia. 



