10 REPORT. 



the colouring is founded. The Council cannot forbear from 

 expressing a strong hope, that this work will be patronized 

 by liberal subscriptions, and afford the author some remunera- 

 tion for a long life of successful, but ill rewarded, labour in 

 the service of science. 



The Literary and Philosophical Society of Whitby having 

 presented an interesting specimen of the paddle-bones of the 

 Plesiosaurus, tlie Council have sent in return a cast of the 

 lower jaw of that animal ; and it is their intention to have a 

 series of casts made from the best fossil specimens in the 

 Museum, for the purpose of exchange with other Institu- 

 tions. An acknowledgment has been received from the 

 Asiatic Society, of the series of Yorkshire fossils not long 

 since sent to Calcutta ; and, at the request of a distinguished 

 scientific foreigner, ^ who visited the Institution in the last 

 summer, a similar series has been forwarded to the Museum of 

 Natural History at Geneva'. Count Sternberg has communi- 

 cated to the Society, the names which he proposes to assign 

 to the fossil plants which the Council had sent to the Museum 

 at Prague ; and adds, as the result of his examination of 

 them, that "the inferior oolite of Saltwick^ includes genera of 

 plants belonging both to the tertiary and secondary floetz 

 formations ; and that it may be consequently considered as on 

 the line of transition of two epochs of vegetation, either of 

 them, however, more ancient than the lignites, where the 

 dicotyledonous plants begin to be observed." ^ 



» Professor de la Rire. * Near Whitby. 



■ Remains of dlcotjledonous plants occur in the lias ; but no specimens of 

 this kind were among those transmitted to Count Sternberg, which were from 

 intermediate beds between the oolite and lias. 



