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The Museum has, during the past year, received consider- 
able additions. A fine collection of British Birds has been 
presented by C. W. Ports, Esq., which is not only ornamental 
to our rooms, but of considerable educational value, giving 
our Members an opportunity of becoming acquainted with 
the external form, and also with the scientific names of birds, 
both rare and abundant, found in this neighbourhood. Some- 
thing has already been done in ornithology by our late 
Member, J. F. Brocxnorss, Esq., in “The Birds of Wirral,” 
which forms the first number of our Society’s proceedings ; 
and it will be well to bear in mind Wuirz’s (of Selborne) obser- 
vation,—‘ That all nature is so full that that district produces 
the greatest variety which is the most examined.” The 
thanks of the Society are due to G. W. Surunsors, F.G.S., 
for a valuable and beautifully arranged collection of fossils from 
the Bala beds. These fossils supply a deficiency in the Provis 
collection, which contained few representatives from the lower 
Silurian rocks. We are also indebted to Frep. Ports, Esq., for 
a donation of £10 towards the cost of cases for the fossils 
bequeathed to the Society by the late Miss Ports. Other mem- 
bers of the same family have also given us useful contributions. 
G. Wracer, Esa., has the best thanks of the Society for 
some choice fossil specimens from the chalk. The Society 
also wishes to express its gratitude to D. MacxrnTosu, F.G.S., 
not only for having named and arranged the rock specimens 
in their collection, but for the many and various acts of 
kindness by which he has helped forward the interests and 
educational work of the Society. We may here state that 
the Library has been arranged and catalogued, and that 
the Society has received some valuable books as gifts, and 
acquired others by purchase, particularly a complete set of 
the Microscopical Journal. Several Scientific Societies have 
also sent us their Reports, for which we have returned our 
best thanks, forwarding at the same time our own Report. 
This useful interchange may serve for mutual benefit and 
improvement. 
