THE COUNCIL. D 



In recording this present, the Council may be allowed 

 perhaps to add a remark upon the merits of the system which 

 this Society has adopted, in appointing several Curators to 

 take charge of the several scientific collections. The interest 

 which this system creates in promoting the improvement of 

 the collections is satisfactorily shewn in the present contri- 

 bution, in those which have been so liberally advanced to the 

 library * and the garden,® and in the valuable deposit, for 

 the Society's use, of the collection belonging to the Curator 

 of comparative anatomy.^ These appointments are likewise 

 of essential utility, both in attracting the specific attention 

 of particular members to a particular province of science, 

 and in lightening the extensive and still extending labours 

 of the general Curator. 



In surveying the lists of donations which are now pre- 

 sented to the Meeting, it will be apparent that the gifts 

 bestowed on every department of the Museum during the 

 past year, have been more than ever valuable and abun- 

 dant. 



Among the most important additions to the Geological 

 COLLECTION, are those which illustrate the organic remains 

 contained in the beds belonging to the series of carboniferous 

 and transition limestones. The transition fossils from Nor- 

 way, * together with those from Herefordshire,* in which is 

 included the radius of a Balistes ; the numerous specimens 

 collected from the Mountain Limestone series of Northum- 



By Eustachius Strickland, Esq. ' By the Rev. W. Hincks, * J. AtkiDson, Esq. 

 ♦ Presented by the Countess of Denbigh. * By the Rev. T. Lewis. 



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