and arrangement of our talented Curator, has ren- 

 dered it a treasure of reference to the geologist, as 

 as well as, in other respects, a repository of instruc- 

 tion to the more general investigator. Let us then, 

 as one of our members has well remarked on a former 

 occasion, endeavour to increase our collection, thank- 

 ful to those enlightened men who in past years had 

 zeal enough in the cause of science to undertake its 

 formation, leaving to us the comparative easy task of 

 preservation and addition, at the same time keeping 

 in view the importance of extending the place at a 

 convenient period, for its better accommodation ; some 

 of our valuable specimens being imperfectly exhibited, 

 and many objects of interest with other material 

 addenda of the institution, not exhibited at all. 



There are instances where certain of our fossils 

 are refered to as markworthy illustrations in the 

 books of eminent geologists ; and in this way, for a 

 forthcoming pubhcation. Professor Phillips of Oxford, 

 has just visited the Whitby collection, and ob- 

 tained drawings of a number of the rare Belemnites 

 belonging to this quarter. These, we believe, were 



