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form a good educational medium for all classes, and it is of 
the utmost importance to maintain and increase its efficiency. 
Owing to the increase of accomodation upstairs, it is now 
hoped that some new cabinets will be added to the 
Geological room, in which the increasing collection can be 
placed, and which will render the whole less crowded than 
it is at present. It is impossible to arrange such acollection 
properly, and for the same reason it is much less profitable 
than it otherwise would be for all purposes of general 
instruction. 
| Though some of the desiderata have been filled up, there 
are several Formations which are still very defective, 
amongst which may be enumerated the following :—The 
Eocene Tertiaries, especially those of Ryde, Cowes, Sconce, 
Headon Hill, Hordwell, Barton, and Bracklesham, London 
Clay fossils from Sheppey and Bognor, Upper and Lower 
Greensand, Great Oolite, Devonian and Lower Silurian will 
be very acceptable. The aid of the members is particularly 
requested in procuring fossils from the County, especially 
those of the Iuias, Keuper, and Permian, as it should be the 
chief aim of all local Museums to have as fine a suite as 
possible from the Strata which occur in the immediate 
neighbourhood, and this the Warwickshire Natural History 
Society has endeavoured to carry out. 
The collection of minerals is still in the same condition, 
and requires complete re-arrangement; and it would be a 
great advantage to the Society if some member acquainted 
with Mineralogy would either kindly undertake its 
re-adjustment or obtain a friend who would do so, 
