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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 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 QOolite, Devonian and Lower Silurian 
will be very acceptable. The aid of the members is particu- 
larly requested in procuring fossils from the County, 
especially those of the Lias, Keuper, and Permian, as it 
should be the chicf aim of all Jocal 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. 
ARCHAOLOGY. 
The Roman Coffin, found in the excavation for the rail- 
way near Alcester, which was purchased for the Society, 
has been set up at the entrance-door of the Museum. 
BRITISH MAMMALIA. 
Although no addition has been made to the British 
Mammals since last year, we devote this paragraph to the 
collection, hoping that we may thereby meet with assistance 
in its completion. Unlike British Birds, which migrate, 
end which therefore in some species can only be obtained as 
stragglers, the Mammals are resident, and though some, 
