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BY W. A, SANFORD, ESQ., F.G.S. 



AUGUST 9, 1860. 



HAVING been requested by tlie Committee of 

 Management to report on the State of the Natural 

 History coUection in the possession of our Society, I have 

 the greater pleasure in doing so, as, although no great 

 additions have been recently received, a very great im- 

 provement has taken place within the past year in the 

 arrangement and condition of that which we possess. 



I think I shall best serve the interest of the Museum by 

 shortly stating what has been done in each department of 

 Natural History during the past year, by noting the prin- 

 cipal deficiencies, and by suggesting simple remedies for 

 them. 



With regard to the Geological coUection. Mr. Parfitt, 

 our curator, has examined the manuscripts of Mr. Williams, 

 and in them he has discovered a clue whereby he has been 

 enabled to restore to a very large number of the specimens 

 of that gentleman's coUection their approximate localities. 

 He has arranjjed the wholc of those for -which we have 



