free on application through Sir R. Murchison, form, 

 with their costly and unrivalled illustrations of fossil 

 specimens, a valuable accession to the Museum Library. 



Since the publication of the last Report, death has 

 removed three of our oldest supporters — Christopher 

 Richardson, Esq., Field House, one of the Vice- 

 Presidents of this Society; John Blanshard, Esq., one 

 of its Life Governors ; and Thomas Turnbull, Esq., as 

 one among the very few left of our earliest Subscribers. 

 To these matters of regret, we have to add the early 

 death of an Honorary Member, Dr. Scoresby-Jackson, 

 author of '' Medical Climatology," a work which the 

 medical press has pronounced to be second to none of 

 its kind ; with other productions, he also wrote the life 

 of the late Dr. Scoresby, whose liberality to this Society 

 stands already recorded. Dr. Jackson was a native of 

 Whitby, but a resident in Edinburgh. 



The Council beg to record their thanks to Charles 

 Bagnall, Esq., M.P., for the late loan of his Collection 

 of Egyptian Antiquities, and for the pamphlets descrip- 

 tive of the same, which he placed at their disposal for 

 distribution. 



Mr. W. Dotchon has allowed the comb with Runic 

 characters which he lately found in this quarter, to be 



