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The Council has to report to the General Meeting that they have 

 prepared a draft of the Bye-laws under the charter, which they pro- 

 pose to submit to the Society at an early period. 



The Museum has received many valuable donations since the last 

 Anniversary, of which the following are the most important. 



British. — Fossil bones from Kent's hole near Torquay ; presented 

 by Mrs. Cazalet. 



Specimens of Crinoidea from Lancaster ; presented by Mr. Gil- 

 berston. 



Specimens of Rocks and of organic remains, to illustrate his memoir 

 on certain stratified deposits in the North of Scotland ; present- 

 ed by R. I. Murchison, Esq. Sec. G.S. 



Specimens from Cader Idris N. Wales, in illustration of his me- 

 moir; presented by A. Aikin, Esq., F.G.S. 



Specimens chiefly of primitive rocks, from Sutherland N. Britain ; 

 presented by Matthew Culley, Esq., F.G.S. 



Foreign. — Organic remains from N. America ; presented by Lieut. 

 Bayfield, and Henry Warburton, Esq. F.G.S. 



Fossils from Volhynia, the Volga, and Jamaica ; presented by Sir 

 A. Crichton, V.P.G.S. 



Rocks and simple minerals from N. America : presented by Dr. 

 Hossack. 



By the plan adopted last year for the disposal of the duplicates, 

 space has been obtained for the reception of several thousand new 

 specimens; and the Council hopes that the collection will be still 

 further condensed and improved, in the course of the ensuing year. 



The Library has been increased, by the donation of 45 volumes; 

 and among the maps l'eceived, the Council has particularly to men- 

 tion those of the neighbourhood of the Rhine and Low Countries, 

 accompanied by Sections ; presented by the authors Messrs. Oeyn- 

 hausen and Dechen. 



The first Part of a Second Volume of the Second Series of Trans- 

 actions has been published, since the last Anniversary; and another 

 Part is now in the press. 



Papers read at the Meetings of the Society since the last Anniversary. 



On the strata of the Plastic clay formation exhibited in the cliffs 

 between Christchurch Head, Hampshire, and Studland Bay, Dor- 

 setshire; by Charles Lyell, Esq., F.R.S. 



On the Geology of the valley of St. Lawrence ; by Dr. Bigsby. 



On the Geological position of some of the rocks of the N. E. of Ire- 

 land; by Lieut. Portlock, R.E. F.G.S. 



On the Freshwater strata of Hordwell, Beacon, and Barton Cliffs, 

 Hants ; by Charles Lyell, Esq., F.G.S. 



On the Geological structure of Cader Idris; by Arthur Aikin, Esq. 

 F.G.S, 



