ANNUAL REPORT. 3 



"Sorae progress has been made towards a more orderly 

 and systematic arrangement of the varied aud valuable 

 coUectlon now belonging to the Society, and it is hoped 

 that during tlie Coming year every department of the 

 Museum -will be so arranged as to be made readily avail- 

 able for reference or for study. In connection with these 

 improvements the Committee deem it their duty to ac- 

 knowledge the valuable help rendered by Mr. Wm. A. 

 Sanford, in the arrangement and Classification of the Geo- 

 logical Collection. 



" Arrangements have been made, in accordance with a 

 scheme suggested by Mr. Sanford, for systematizing the 

 observations made by members and others in various parts 

 of the county. The details of that scheme have been given 

 in the recent volume of Proceedings, and the Committee 

 earnestly solicit the help and co-operation of all who have 

 it in their power, in however small a degree, to contribute 

 to these objects. The Portfolios are ready for the recep- 

 tion and Classification of all such notices as may be sent. 

 Donations of Geologlcal and Botanical Specimens from 

 various locallties in the county are much needed in order 

 to complete the illustrations which the INIuseum supplies of 

 the Natural History of the County. In like mannei', 

 objects of antiquarian interest, with notices of the locality 

 and circumstances in which they were found, would be 

 much valued as additiojis to the Archteological portion of 

 the Museum. 



"The Committee are likewise engaged in preparing 

 portions of Collinson's History of Somerset according to the 

 suggestions of R. W. Falconer, Esq,, M.D., of Bath, to be 

 used as the basis of a more complete and correct history 

 of the districts to which the sections respectively relate. 

 When these are completed, with a general outline of the 



