﻿VI 
  ANNIVERSARY 
  MEETING. 
  

  

  erby, 
  Esq., 
  M. 
  E. 
  Lartet, 
  For. 
  Mem. 
  G.S., 
  H. 
  Christy, 
  Esq., 
  F.G.S., 
  

   and 
  other 
  donors 
  ; 
  and 
  Dr. 
  J. 
  Milligan, 
  F.G.S., 
  has 
  made 
  a 
  large 
  

   addition 
  to 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  Fossils 
  from 
  Tasmania 
  presented 
  by 
  him 
  

   some 
  time 
  back. 
  

  

  The 
  Committee 
  especially 
  draw 
  the 
  attention 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  to 
  a 
  

   valuable 
  collection 
  of 
  specimens 
  illustrating 
  the 
  Alluvial 
  Gold-depo- 
  

   sits 
  of 
  New 
  South 
  Wales, 
  which 
  is 
  estimated 
  to 
  contain 
  more 
  than 
  

   seventy 
  pounds' 
  worth 
  of 
  gold, 
  and 
  which, 
  with 
  the 
  cases 
  containing 
  

   it, 
  is 
  the 
  gift 
  of 
  Sir 
  Daniel 
  Cooper, 
  Bart., 
  late 
  Speaker 
  of 
  the 
  Legis- 
  

   lative 
  Assembly 
  of 
  New 
  South 
  Wales. 
  These 
  two 
  cases 
  of 
  specimens 
  

   are 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  Tea-room. 
  

  

  The 
  additions 
  to 
  the 
  British 
  collection 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  very 
  nume- 
  

   rous, 
  the 
  principal 
  being 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  Bones 
  from 
  the 
  Peat 
  of 
  Wal- 
  

   thamstow, 
  presented 
  by 
  ET. 
  T. 
  Wetherell, 
  Esq., 
  F.G.S. 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  collec- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  Peat 
  of 
  Somersetshire, 
  presented 
  by 
  G. 
  S. 
  

   Poole, 
  Esq. 
  

  

  The 
  want 
  of 
  a 
  Microscope 
  for 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  the 
  Fellows 
  and 
  the 
  Offi- 
  

   cers 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  having 
  long 
  been 
  felt, 
  the 
  Council 
  purchased, 
  in 
  

   March 
  last, 
  a 
  very 
  useful 
  instrument 
  of 
  Messrs. 
  Smith, 
  Beck, 
  and 
  

   Beck 
  at 
  a 
  cost 
  of 
  £9 
  12s. 
  

  

  The 
  working 
  materials 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  have 
  been 
  further 
  aug- 
  

   mented 
  through 
  the 
  presentation, 
  by 
  Leonard 
  Horner, 
  Esq., 
  V.P.G.S., 
  

   of 
  a 
  Wollaston's 
  Reflecting 
  Goniometer. 
  

  

  Owing 
  to 
  a 
  press 
  of 
  Library-work 
  during 
  the 
  past 
  year, 
  and 
  to 
  

   there 
  having 
  been 
  but 
  one 
  Library 
  and 
  Museum 
  Assistant 
  during 
  

   the 
  greater 
  portion 
  of 
  that 
  period, 
  much 
  progress 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  made 
  

   since 
  the 
  last 
  Anniversary 
  in 
  naming 
  and 
  arranging 
  the 
  Fossils 
  in 
  

   the 
  Foreign 
  Collections; 
  still 
  this 
  very 
  important 
  branch 
  of 
  the 
  

   Museum-work 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  entirely 
  neglected. 
  Dr. 
  Duncan 
  has 
  

   rendered 
  very 
  great 
  service 
  by 
  devoting 
  much 
  time 
  to 
  the 
  naming 
  

   and 
  arrangement 
  of 
  both 
  the 
  British 
  and 
  Foreign 
  Fossil 
  Corals; 
  

   many 
  of 
  the 
  specimens 
  determined 
  by 
  him 
  have 
  been 
  placed 
  upon 
  

   tablets 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Stair, 
  while 
  the 
  remainder 
  are 
  in 
  course 
  of 
  being 
  

   tableted. 
  The 
  Nummulitic 
  Fossils 
  from 
  Scinde, 
  which 
  were 
  named 
  

   by 
  M. 
  d'Archiac, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  some 
  others 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  district, 
  alto- 
  

   gether 
  occupying 
  nine 
  drawers, 
  have 
  also 
  been 
  placed 
  upon 
  tablets 
  ; 
  

   but 
  there 
  yet 
  remain 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  specimens 
  of 
  this 
  collection, 
  occu- 
  

   pying 
  five 
  drawers, 
  still 
  unnamed 
  ; 
  most 
  of 
  them, 
  however, 
  appear 
  

   to 
  be 
  duplicates. 
  

  

  . 
  In 
  order 
  to 
  prevent 
  injury 
  to 
  delicate 
  specimens, 
  twelve 
  drawers, 
  

   containing 
  the 
  collections 
  of 
  Paris 
  Basin 
  and 
  Touraine 
  Fossils, 
  have 
  

   been 
  fitted 
  with 
  glass 
  covers 
  at 
  a 
  cost 
  of 
  £1 
  Is. 
  As 
  isolated 
  delicate 
  

   specimens 
  frequently 
  occur 
  in 
  collections, 
  the 
  Committee 
  recommend 
  

   the 
  purchase 
  of 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  glass-top 
  boxes 
  for 
  their 
  reception 
  from 
  

   time 
  to 
  time. 
  It 
  also 
  appears 
  desirable 
  to 
  obtain 
  a 
  sufficient 
  number 
  

   of 
  small 
  tablets 
  to 
  facilitate 
  the 
  formation 
  of 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  Polyzoa. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Horner 
  having 
  constructed 
  a 
  Stratigraphical 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  

   Specimens 
  in 
  the 
  Foreign 
  Museum, 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  copied 
  into 
  a 
  suitable 
  

   book 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Stair. 
  It 
  forms 
  a 
  kind 
  of 
  appendix 
  to 
  the 
  Geographical 
  

   Catalogues 
  made 
  previously, 
  and 
  will, 
  it 
  is 
  hoped, 
  prove 
  of 
  material 
  

  

  