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~Man. Many specimens also of fossils from the English chalk have 
been worked into their respective places in the series. 
In the Scotch collection many fossil plants and fishes from the 
coal-measures have been arranged and named by Mr. Lonsdale and 
M. Agassiz. A most valuable present has been received from Lady 
Gordon Cumming, of 120 specimens of fossil fishes from the old red 
sandstone near Forres, all of which were named by M. Agassiz 
during his late visit to. London. 
The new accessions made to the Irish collection consist of 28 
drawers of fossils from the mountain-limestone, the greater part of 
which were formerly presented by the Earl of Enniskillen, Sir Philip 
Egerton, Mr. Weaver, and Mr. Griffiths, and which have been named 
by Mr. Lonsdale. The Committee have to express their regret, that 
a still more complete suite of the corals of this formation, obtained 
by Lord Enniskillen in Sligo and Fermanagh, and which were lately 
sent off from Belfast to the Society by him, were lost in the Thames 
steamer wrecked off the Scilly Islands. 
Besides the fossil fish of the old red sandstone, before alluded 
to, M. Agassiz has examined generally all the Ichthyolites in the 
British series, and has named among others those of the crag of 
Norfolk and Suffolk, the London clay, and the cretaceous, Wealden, 
and oolitic formations. 
In conclusion, the Committee have to remark, that in carrying 
into effect the arrangement of the Museum above alluded to, the la- 
bour of selecting the specimens, and of specifically determining and 
naming the fossil shells, corals, plants, and other organic remains, 
has devolved exclusisely upon Mr. Lonsdale. Mr. Woodward has 
been employed in affixing to the specimens labels descriptive of the 
names, localities, names of donors, and references to books; and has 
in the course of the year finished in this way 81 drawers, making 
at the same time hand-catalogues for the fossils of the English series. 
Besides these occupations, and the preparing of enlarged illustrations 
and other arrangements for the Evening Meetings, much of his time 
has been devoted to the students and numerous visitors who have 
inspected the Society’s Museum, ‘and the Committee are’ of opinion 
that he has discharged his several duties with zeal and assiduity. 
Among the principal donors to the Museum during the past’year, 
the Committee have to notice Lady Gordon Cumming, to whom the 
Society is indebted for the fossil fishes of the old red sandstone 
before mentioned, and Baron de Meyendorf, from whom we have 
received a fine specimen of crystallized native gold from Ekaterinen- 
bourg, and also a specimen of platinum from the mines of Tagil. 
As all the drawers now in the Museum are full, the Committee 
beg to recommend to the Council that four new cabinets, capable of 
containing 84 drawers, be immediately ordered, the estimated cost 
of which is 51/7. 
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The Library has been increased during the past year by the dona- 
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