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Rev. C. V. Collier, F.S.A., that we became the possessor of 

 the Roman pavement from Harpham, and the various 

 antiquities found on its site. These were presented by Mr. 

 W. H. St. Quintin, J. P. 



A county society, the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, has 

 its headquarters now in Hull, and it has contributed indirectly 

 its share to the value of the municipal collections. It was at 

 the annual conversazione of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 

 held in this museum four years ago that Mr. N. F. Dobree, 

 F.E.S., of Beverley, a member of the Union as well as of 

 our society, intimated his intention of handing - over his 

 unrivalled series of European Noctuae which is on exhibition 

 this evening. This collection has proved most useful to 

 entomologists, and is frequently consulted. Another member 

 of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, Mr. R. H. Barker, of 

 Scarborough, who noticed our lack of land and fresh water 

 mollusca, has added very considerably to our collection of 

 those objects, and where his own specimens did not enable 

 him to fill up our gaps, he has induced others to assist us. 

 Still another member, Rev. F. H. Woods, B.D., has recently 

 come to our assistance in endeavouring to make our collection 

 of marine shells more complete, and with his help and that 

 of the chief engineer of the s.s. Huxley, the fisheries investi- 

 gation steamer employed by the Marine Biological Association, 

 it is hoped that our section devoted to marine zoology may 

 be made more representative and worthy of this seaport. 



In addition to the societies already enumerated, there are 

 others such as the East Riding Nature Study Association, 

 all of which are working directly or indirectly in the interests 

 of this museum. 



Having regard to the number of valuable specimens 

 enumerated in these notes which have been added to our 

 permanent collection as a result of the association of this 

 museum with the various local societies ; also having regard 

 to the fact that numerous other specimens have been added 

 in recent years in other ways ; and bearing in mind that the 

 museum was already full to overcrowding when first taken 

 over from the Literary and Philosophical Society by the 

 Corporation, it is only natural that we are somewhat em- 

 barrassed by the lack of exhibition space. However, I have 

 every hope that in the near future the accommodation available 

 for the proper display of specimens may be considerably 

 increased ; and when that occurs we shall have a much 

 better opportunity of exhibiting and classifying our specimens 

 than is now possible, though it will be conceded that the 



