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brought from Egypt* and from America,^ have furnished 

 instructive testimonies to the theory of general formations. 

 The British strata have been further illustrated by some 

 beautiful specimens of crinoi'dal remains from Gloucester- 

 shire,^ and of fossil fishes from Swanwich* and Barrow.* A 

 very interesting collection, also, of the fossil fishes discovered 

 in Caithness by Professor Sedgwick and Mr. Murchison, has 

 been received from an honorary member^ whose bountiful 

 contributions have been acknowledged in every report ; and 

 a suite of fossils from Sutherland, presented by Mr. Murchison 

 himself, has enabled the Keeper of the Museum to institute 

 a comparison with the fossils of the corresponding strata on 

 the Yorkshire coast, which proves a still closer conformity 

 than had been before observed. 



The collections of the Institution have supplied many 

 valuable materials to the work which this meritorious officer 

 of the Society is now publishing, on the Geology of the 

 Eastern part of this County ,'' a work which, the Council 

 have reason to hope, will complete whatever may have been 

 left wanting by the valuable labours of his predecessors in the 

 same field. The richest part of the Museum is, as it ought 

 to be, that which contains the Yorkshire specimens ; and it 



> By J. S. Crompton, Esq. * By S. Stapylton, Esq. 



* By the Rev, R. Halifax. * By Miss Atkinson. * By the Rev. T. King. 



« Henry Witham, Esq. F.G.S, 

 *" Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire; or a Description of the Strata 

 and Organic Remains of the Yorkshire Coast, accompanied by a Map, Sections, 

 and numerous Plates of fossil plants and animals ; by John Phillips, F.G.S." — 

 1 vol. 4to. 



