8 REPORT OF 



The most considerable Mineralogical donations of the 

 year have been two large contributions, consisting together 

 of one hundred and eighty six specimens, from a member * 

 to whom the Society's Museum has been under repeated 

 obligations, — a meteoric stone which fell at Juvenas in 

 France, in June 1821,^ given to the donor by M. Alex, 

 de Humboldt, entire, and completely coated with the glaze 

 peculiar to these singular substances, — a new ore of lead 

 from Cumberland,^ — and an undescribed mineral which 

 came among several silver ores from Columbia, * and which 

 appears from the analysis to which it has been subjected, to 

 be a compound of mercury, sulphur, and selenium. Speci- 

 mens also which have been presented, * of laminated blende 

 forming septa in the argillaceous nodules of several beds 

 in the oolitic series, are of interest as shewing a mineralogical 

 analogy between these and the lias strata, in the fossils of 

 which the presence of this mineral has before been noticed. 



Among the Zoological acquisitions, besides the collec- 

 tion of Insects already noticed, there have been added many 

 interesting specimens of Fishes, Reptiles and Birds. With 

 respect to the Society's collection of British Birds, it may 

 be worth while to observe that it is principally deficient 

 in the most common kinds ; and the Curator has reported 

 this deficiency in the hope that it may speedily be supplied 

 by the friends of the Institution. The Council would also 

 call the attention of the meeting to a donation "^ of the 



• W. Danby, Esq. ' Presented by the Rev. W. Vernon. *By Sir J.V.B. Johnstone, 



Bart. ♦ Presented by Thomas Richardson, Esq. analysed by the Rev. W. Vernon. 



* By the Rev. W. Vernon. « By E. Strickland, Esq. 



