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The Council record with pleasure a visit paid to the 
Museum by Professor Owen, who expressed a high opinion 
of its general arrangement and the importance and value 
of its contents. 
In September last, a large party of members of the 
British Association visited the Museum, and the Geological 
collection was briefly described to them by thé Rev. 
P. B. Brodie. 
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 
it is 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 defective, 
amongst wnich 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, Devonion 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 Lias, Keuper, and Permain, 
as it should be the chief aim of all local Museums to have 
as finea suite as possible from the strata which occur in 
the immediate neighbourhood, and this the Warwickshire 
Natural History Society has endeavoured to carry out. 
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