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utmost importance to maintain and increase its efficiency. 
The Council record with pleasure a visit lately paid to the 
Museum by Professor Owen, who expressed a high opinion 
of its general arrangement and the importance and value 
of its contents. 
Owing to the increase of accommodation 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 
itis at present. It is impossible to arrange such a collection 
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 defec- 
tive, 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 mem- 
bers is particularly requested in procuring fossils from the 
County, especially those of the Lias, 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 Minerals have been, to some extent, re-arranged, 
through the kindness of Dr. Procter, of York, though 
much is still required to be done. Indeed, the specimens 
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