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preilaccousischist) xs. :sisis(2 (Oei[n Basalt este senrwenies alc 1 
Whiea, slate vee. 6. .-.. | Porphyry’. .2.. oo 8 Veer 
(CONSISS) GA ORG ears Sah 7 Canney. 3.8 858 score aos 4 
P@TVSCOME V he eile isis vohoine, « » 1 Gramnpianss4..0. ose ee 
Hypersthene and hornblende 1 | Orkney ................ 1 
MeHPEMEMerI)./. 74. . A. Soo ||, woletlandias Skee. . se ee 3 
(Gxeenstone: Ise oe gh! . 2) | “Wiesternlsles ; . 524i Ae 
pAmipedaloidy, 2 /c.,2,. setae, 2 
A large collection of fishes from Lethen near Forres, presented by 
Lady Gordon Cumming, is in progress of arrangement. 
No. 7.—Irish collection. 
Arranged according to counties. 
The following list shows at once the arrangement and the relative 
proportion of the specimens :— 
Doneral iy. 2 Sie aa Rae i 8 a] Mayor cet. ayes es vere 4 
JAS ETT ES TS tna sae re 1 | Roscommon, Galway, 9 
Mendonderry’.....-.,0-em>- 2 Meath, Lowth........ i 
JERE ir SIS IGG CLR iG 2a Gare: © ete Lae es ee, 
WOM sats acs. = s SRY 3 jk Da bluate faa te stn eae 5 
Carlow and Leitrim ...... Ta. Waeklow, 2 oe sao ae Shi oe 
ermanae hy occa se sue one @ it Werty. =. sm SLPS Te 8 
PANERAI Ss «ene Siolige oz ete UScah Cone oka. coir eee 8 
ROMEO PS eireveile fauelia leh ctievsusisle a4) 4 S IP NN acerlorehe Segemascn ata 1 
Many fossils from the mountain limestone of Ireland have been 
received from Lord Enniskillen. 
The Museum Committee of last year, 1841, recommended four 
new cabinets, containing eighty-four drawers, at a cost of £51; but 
it has not been deemed prudent to incur that expense. 
No. 8.—The Foreign collection. 
In the foreign collection, organic remains have been distributed 
in forty-five drawers, of which twenty-six were gained in conse- 
quence of the South American specimens being removed into cases. 
A large portion of the fossils were presented to the Society, with 
their names accompanying them; but these in every case have been 
compared by Mr. Lonsdale with the descriptions given in the best 
works,—those which were sent without names have since been ex- 
amined and named by Mr. Lonsdale: some, however, of the fossils 
require further examination, and their names being fairly copied out. 
In the foreign department of the Museum, the most interesting ad- 
dition, during the past year, have been six drawers of Silurian fossils 
from New York, presented by Mr. Henwood; and four drawers of 
fossils from the carboniferous series of Russia, presented by General 
Tcheffkine. Mr. Lyell also has deposited a valuable series of shells 
from the tertiary beds of Touraine. 
