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rection thus given to their thoughtsjed, by degrees, to the further 

 extension of their views, so as to include the natural history of 

 plants, and inquiries into the geological character of the neighbour- 

 hood; and for the accomplishment of these objects it became evident 

 that the assistance of a larger society was requisite, which might 

 give encouragement to all the branches of Natural History, in the 

 most extended sense of the terra. It was supposed that it might at 

 least be practicable to collect materials for a complete account of 

 the Natural History and Antiquities of Warwickshire ; and that in 

 all probability materials might gradually be collected for a Museum 

 of general Zoology, Botany, Geology, and Mineralogy." The en- 

 couragement received by the projectors of the Society at the preli- 

 minary meeting in the spring, fully realized their most sanguine ex- 

 pectations ; and the subsequent progress of the Institution has been 

 highly satisfactory. The report, which was very ably drawn up, 

 after alluding to the subjects of meteorology, statistics, and archae- 

 ology, concluded by an assurance that the prospects of the Society 

 may be declared to be of the most cheering kind, and that the Com- 

 mittee entertain a confident expectation that Warwickshire will, in 

 the course of a few years, possess a museum on a scale commen- 

 surate with the wealth, liberality, and intelligence of the county. 



Dr. Lloyd commenced the Report of the Honorary Curators by 

 alluding to the liberality of the members who had contributed so 

 freely from their collections of natural objects. Among these may 

 be mentioned a rare and excellently preserved fossil fish, from the 

 Lias Lime quarries at Wilmcote, presented by Mr. Greaves, of Rad- 

 ford. This fish was sent to Professor Agassiz, who determined it 

 to be a new species of the genus Tetragonolepis and gave it the spe- 

 cific name Angidifer.* A list of donations followed, which we re- 

 gret we have not room to enumerate. 



On the conclusion of the report, the Chairman having requested 

 Dr. Buckland to continue his interesting address, the learned Pro- 

 fessor proceeded to give some lengthened and able observations upon 

 the different strata of earths which had been collected by the vast 

 eruptions of water, which had so often inundated this world before 

 the creation of man. After recommending the science of geology as 

 one which added strength, if possible, to the truths of revelation, and 

 reading several extracts from the treatise he has lately published, 

 the learned Doctor sat down amidst the loud and continued applause 

 of his numerous and respectable audience. 



A vote of thanks was then proposed to Dr. Buckland, and Sir H. 

 Dryden, and the meeting dissolved. 



* This beautiful fossil was figured in the 13th No. of the Analyst, with a 

 letter from the learned Professor. 



