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agreement of several of the shells with some of the oolitic fossils of 

 England was distinctly shown ; and the collection recently pre- 

 sented hy Col. Sykes has been made to assist in determining how 

 far the comparison may be extended. 



3. From Mr. Austen, an extensive series of fossils from the limestone 

 of Southern Devonshire has been received. 



4. The Royal Geographical Society has presented a collection of spe- 

 cimens from Guiana, collected by M. Schombergk. 



Summary of the Foreign Collection. 



Drawers. 



Spitzbergen 3 



Iceland 6 



Feroe Islands 2 



Sweden 5 



Norway 8 



Denmark I 



Waygate Straits 1 



Russia 3 



Volhynia 1 



Crimea 1 



Poland.. ^ 2 



Austria, including Styria and 



Tyrol 11 



Hungary 20 



Bavaria, with Franconia, Bay- 



reuth, and Solenhofen. . 13 



Hanover with the Hartz. ... 7 



Wirtemberg 16 



Saxony, Freyberg 9 



Nassau 6 



Baden 3 



Hesse 2 



Lower Rhine, includingBonn, 



the Eifel, and Maestricht 62 



Belgium 3 



Holland 1 



France, rich in specimens 



from the Cantal and Au- 



vergne. . . . , ^ 5Q 



Portugal 2 



Spain, confined to Gibraltar 



and the provinces of 



Granada and Murcia . . 12 



Sardinia I 



Piedmont and Savoy 9 



Switzerland 19 



Italy 9 



Environs of Rome 4 



Drawers, 



Environs of Naples 22 



Sicily 6 



Malta 2 



Greece and Grecian Archipe- 

 lago 3 



Asia Minor 1 



Palestine 3 



Persia and Persian Gulf. ... 7 

 East Indies : Bombay and 



Western coast 22 



Madras ........ 1 



Bengal and Upper 



Provinces 42 



Ava 8 



China I 



Islands in the Indian Ocean 12 



Australia — West Coast .... 3 

 East Coast and in- 

 terior adjacent to .... 9 

 ■ North Coast 3 



Van Diemen's Land 3 



Kgypt 14 



Madagascar I 



Cape of Good Hope 3 



St. Helena 2 



Ascension 3 



Cape de Verde Islands .... 1 



Madeira 2 



Azores 1 



Greenland 5 



Davis's Straits, Baffin's Bay, 

 Melville Bay, Prince Re- 

 gent's Inletj Hudson's 



Bay, &c 9 



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