DESIDERATA, ETC. XXIU 



for the study of which no adequate provision has hitherto been 

 made in any of the public institutions of this country, applica- 

 tion be made to the trustees of the British Museum to form a 

 conchological collection, if possible, under the same roof, and 

 which may include not only all known species of shells, whe- 

 ther recent or fossil, but likewise the varieties of form and 

 size which such species assume at different periods of their 

 growth, or from other causes, together with a series of the im- 

 pressions of shells which are found upon different rocks and 

 plaster casts from their impressions ; and that the Marquis of 

 Northampton be requested to bring this recommendation before 

 the Board of Trustees. 



MINING RECORDS. 



The Committee appointed at Newcastle, for the purpose of 

 applying to Government for a proper place for the deposit of 

 records connected with the mining transactions of Great Bri- 

 tain, having reported that a room adjoining the Museum of 

 Economic Geology had been appointed for their reception, 

 which would also be placed under the custody of a proper 

 person, it was resolved, — That the following gentlemen should 

 be appointed a Committee for the purpose of superintending 

 and making the necessary arrangements, and for assisting in 

 the collection and transmission of Mining Records : — Marquis 

 of Northampton, Sir Charles Lemon, Sir Philip G. Egerton, 

 John Henry Vivian, Esq., Davies Gilbert, Esq., J. S. Enys, 

 Esq., W. L. Dillwyn, Esq., Charles Lyell, Esq., the President 

 of the Geological Society, the Professors of Geology at the 

 Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Durham, 

 H. T. De la Beche, Esq., John Buddie, Esq., Thos. Sopwith, 

 Esq., Richard Griffith, Esq., James Barker, Esq., the Presi- 

 dent of the British Association, G. R. Porter, Esq., John 

 Taylor, Esq. 



