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32/. 10s. 4d., be assigned to Mr. James Sowerby, in order to facili- 
tate the continuation of his researches in Mineral Conchology. 
Report of the Museum Committee. 
The Committee has to congratulate the Society on the great pro- 
gress which has been made in’ the arrangement of the collection 
during the past year. 
The most important feature in this progress has been, Ist, the 
determination by Mr. Lonsdale of Plants'‘from the Coal, presented’ 
by Sir P. Egerton, Messrs. Hutton, Murchison, Stokes, Meade and 
others, occupying fifty drawers. 
Qndly, The working into the cabinet of the valuable collection of 
Silurian fossils, filling thirty-six drawers, presented in former years 
by Mr. Murchison; and the comparison by Mr. Lonsdale of the 
names accompanying the specimens with published figures and de- 
scriptions. Besides these steps in the arrangement of the English 
series, eleven drawers of shells and corals from the mountain lime- 
stone have also been named. Also more than forty specimens of 
Saurian remains from the Lias, together with miscellaneous speci- 
mens from the Diluvium of Essex, Crag, Pliocene strata of the Clyde, 
London Clay, and Chalk Marl. 
Labels, containing generic or specific names, localities, references 
to books, and the names of donors, have been affixed by Mr. Wood- 
ward to all the above-mentioned rocks and fossils: corresponding 
entries have also been made by him in the hand catalogues. The 
specimens above alluded to, many of which have been now intro- 
duced for the first time into our English collection, occupy no less 
than 160 drawers. 
Four new Cabinets, ordered by the Council at the last Anniver- 
sary, have been placed in the Lower Museum, and have been already 
in great part filled. 
The Committee have learnt with pleasure that the number of per- 
sons who have made use of the Society’s collections during the past 
year has considerably exceeded that of the years immediately pre- 
ceding. 
Mr. Woodward entered upon his appointment as Sub-Curator on 
the 1st of June. Since that period his time has been fully employed 
in the labours above mentioned, in affixing new bracket labels to the 
larger specimens,—in drawing illustrations for the Evening Meet- 
ings, and in attending the visitors who have consulted the Society’s 
Museum. 
The Committee cannot conclude this Report without congratula- 
ting the Council on the success which has attended the new arrange- 
ments which were made last year in regard to the duties of the Cu- 
rator and Sub-Curator. By relieving Mr. Lonsdale from attendance 
on visitors to the Museum, and from many secretarian labours in la- 
belling and cataloguing specimens, they have enabled him to devote 
his energies far more successfully than on any former occasion to the 
classification of our English collections, and we have pleasure in ex- 
