report of the committee. 293 



Donations, etc. 



The exchanges and donations of Books and Transactions have 

 continued much the same as in former years. Ahout eighty 

 volumes and parts of Transactions have been received. There 

 has been a slight diminution in the number of specimens pre- 

 sented to the Society compared with previous years. But among 

 those received are some which, from their great value, should 

 be specially mentioned in this Report. Mrs. Mountain, ever 

 desirous of benefiting this Society, has generously presented a 

 fine engraving of Leslie's picture of the " Queen receiving the 

 Sacrament at the Coronation," and five engravings by Andran, 

 from pictures by Le Brun, representing scenes in the life of 

 Alexander the Great. These engravings were found in a box, 

 which had belonged to the last Earl of Derwentwater. 



Mr. John Hancock has still further increased the Bird Col- 

 lection and the indebtedness of the Society to him, by presenting 

 a collection of 1659 carefully selected skins of rare and interest- 

 ing birds, the contents of his Bird Cabinet, and 44 skins of 

 mammals. 



Edmund J. Garwood, Esq., B.A., Camb., has made a most 

 acceptable addition to the Palseontological Collection of a series 

 of Fossils collected by himself, consisting of Trilobites, etc., 

 from the Cambrians of North Wales ; of Graptolithes, from the 

 Coniston Mudstones, and other Silurian fossils. Also specimens 

 from the St. Cassian beds of Italy and from the Atherstone 

 Clay. 



Some exceedingly interesting additions to the Coal Measure 

 Plants have been made by T. "W. Embleton, Esq., Methley, 

 Leeds. These consist of several fine examples of Sphenopteris 

 Artemmmfotia, collected many years since at Fawdon Old Col- 

 liery; and remains of Fishes, etc., from the Yorkshire Coalfield, 

 with specimens of Fluid Bitumen and Middletonite, from Middle- 

 ton, near Leeds. 



Joseph Crawhall and J. "W. Barnes, Esqs., the executors of 

 the late Miss Isabella Bewick, having made a request that an 

 extract from Miss Isabella Bewick's will, which relates to the 



