made ; and hero, to the donors for the past year, the 

 thanks of the Council are presented. To its objects 

 in Natural History there has just been purchased a 

 " Ribbon Fish," although the collection already has 

 one of the kind ; but the fish now taken is somewhat 

 longer, and more perfect than the former in certain of 

 its parts. On these grounds, as well as^ on? the score 

 of rarity, it was thought desirable to secure the recent 

 specimen ; the books* on fishes naming not more than 

 three or four of the Ribbon tribe known to have been 

 captured on our coasts. This remarkable stranger, 

 which naturalists place in tha class "Toenoidoe," a 

 term connected with Tenia, a tape worm, on account 

 of its flat and elongated form, is 10 feet 7 inches in 

 length, 13 inches deep (for it has swum edge down), 

 and 3 inches thick. Boneless, as belonging to the 

 cartilaginous kind, both its sides are silvery, and, to 

 the naked eye, without scales. A number of hair-like 

 filaments spring out of the head with its protractile 

 snout and small mouth, while a dorsal, fin traverses, 

 the whole course of the body and unites with the ^ 

 of the tail. 



Visits to the Society's Collection for note-worthj 

 purposes have been mentioned on previous occasions ; 

 and lately in this way, A. W. Franks, Esq., at the 

 head of the Ethnological and Mediaeval department 

 of the British Museum, has, by permission^ taken 

 rubbings from our Roman inscriptions ; among which 

 the Ravenhill stone found in this neighbourhood, and 

 G igraved in the Histories of Whitby* stands con- 



