AEPORt. 13 



The inventories or lisls of donations laid before these 

 meetings, can only imperfectly represent the value of the 

 contributions described in them. Hereafter, it may be hoped 

 that, by publishing a Catalogue raisonni of what it pos- 

 sesses, the Society may at once give a more adequate account 

 of its obligations, and render an important service to science. 

 At present, a brief survey of the most material features in 

 the contributions of the last year, may not be unacceptable 

 to the Meeting. 



Among the Geological donations, is included a large 

 accession of the remains of antediluvian quadrupeds from the 

 coast of Norfolk, and from the caves at Banwell and Tor-Bay. 

 Those from Tor-Bay were accompanied by an interesting 

 communication from the donor, ^ who, having placed a similar 

 collection in the hands of M. Cuvier, had obtained his opinion 

 respecting them. That eminent naturalist found one of the 

 specimens, a cast of wliich is in tlie Society's Museum, to be 

 the canine tooth of that species of Bear, which he has named 

 Ursus cultridens; an animal of which no remains had 

 been previously known, except a specimen of an entire skull, 

 found in the Val d'Arno, and deposited in the Museum at 

 Florence. The similarity of fracture which prevails in the 

 bones found in this cave, is noticed by Mr. M'Enery ; and the 

 marks of teeth upon them are particularly remarked by M» 

 Cuvier, who states that these may be more distinctly traced 

 in the English specimens, than in any other which he has 



The Rev. John M'Enery. 



