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but the distance to which this Society has removed rendered it 

 necessary to terminate the agreement so early formed and so 

 long continued between the two Societies, which connection was 

 intended to be for their mutual advantage. Here may be men- 

 tioned, with regard to the Ethnological and other specimens 

 from the Allan Museum (which, though the property of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society, had from the first been 

 placed in the custody of the IS'atural History Society), that an 

 arrangement was made with the Committee of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society to purchase these specimens for the sum of 

 £100 by the Natural History Society. 



The agreement with the Mining Institute, made in the year 

 1862, has also been terminated. The Council of the Mining 

 Institute most generously offered to present to the Society the 

 valuable Hutton Collection of Fossil Plants, on condition that 

 they should be labelled as presented by the Council, and ex- 

 posed to view in the I^atural History Museum. The Committee 

 agreed to accept a moiety of the collection, consisting of such 

 specimens as had been figured in Lindley and Hutton's Fossil 

 Flora, and any other specimens that were of use to illustrate 

 the species, on the conditions offered by the Council of the 

 Mining Institute : 292 specimens in all were selected, and 

 these are now arranged in the Greological Eoom of the Museum, 

 and form a very valuable and important addition to the Coal- 

 measure Flora of the district. The thanks of this Society are 

 especially due to the Council of the Mining Institute for this 

 very handsome contribution to the Society's collections. 



The following Donations to the Society require special men- 

 tion. The Society has received many valuable donations of 

 specimens, including Mr. Hancock's unrivalled and extensive 

 collection of British Birds, which are now arranged in the wall 

 cases of the Central Room. It must be stated that this collec- 

 tion has been the work of a lifetime, and was obtained with great 

 care and cost ; and the groups of birds have been preserved with 

 so much fidelity to nature and so artistically grouped as to be not 

 only unique as regards the rarity and careful selection of the 

 specimens, but also as thoroughly representing the natural form 



