IV ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



Museum. 



The additions to the British Collection include a large collection of 

 specimens from Bovey Tracey, presented by Dr. J. G. Croker, which 

 have just been received, and are not yet placed ; also a set of Fossil 

 Plants from Studland, presented by Mr. W. R. Brodie ; and a very 

 interesting series of Ferns, &c., from the Yellow Sandstone of Ire- 

 land, presented by the Rev. Prof. Haughton, F.G.S. ; also specimens 

 of Allophane from the chalk-pit of Charlton, Kent, presented by 

 Dr. Krantz. 



During M. E. Renevier's stay in London he examined all the 

 specimens from the Gault in our collection, and compared their 

 names with those in use on the Continent, especially with those of 

 Pictet and Roux, in their " MoUusques fossiles des Gres Verts de 

 Geneve." 



Agreeably to the order of the Council, an interleaved copy of 

 Mr. Morris's Catalogue of British Fossils has been placed in the 

 Museum, to serve as a means of cataloguing our collection ; and a 

 beginning has been made in it by Mr. S. V. Wood, in the Tertiary 

 series, and by Mr. D. Sharpe in the Cretaceous series. It is to be 

 hoped that other Fellows of the Society will lend their assistance 

 towards carrying out this most desirable object. 



Mr. Gawan has been employed during the year assisting Mr, Jones, 

 both in the necessary attention to the Museum and in the arranging 

 the Library and preparing a catalogue of Mr. Greenough's books ; 

 and Mr. Jones reports most favourably of the assistance which he 

 has received from him. 



The following interesting additions of foreign specimens have been 

 received : — 



Cryolite, Tantalite, and Eudiatite-rock, from Evigtok, Greenland; 

 presented by J. W. Tayler, Esq. The specimens of Tantalite are 

 particularly fine. 



The Rev. Mr. Hislop, of Nagpoor, has continued to send us valuable 

 collections of Fossil Plants and other Organic Remains, from the 

 Nagpoor Territory, and which we hope will soon be examined by 

 several Fellows of the Society, who have promised their assistance 

 towards their publication in the Society's Journal. 



Mr. J. W. Mudge has presented an interesting collection of Tertiary 

 Fossils from Prome, which, added to those which the Society has 

 before received from Col. Turton and Mr. Crawfurd, make up a 

 most interesting series from that locality. 



Daniel Sharpe. 

 S. P. Pratt. 



January 30, 1856. 



