IV ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



Museum. 



The specimens presented during the last year to the Museum have 

 been for the most part arranged in their respective drawers. They 

 include series of rock-specimens and fossils : from St. Thomas's, pre- 

 sented by Dr. Hornbeck ; from Bulgaria and the Grecian Archipelago, 

 presented by Captain Spratt ; from Asia Minor by Major Garden ; 

 from Chili by Mr. Bollaert and Dr. C. Forbes ; from South Africa 

 by Dr. Rubidge ; and from Nagpur by the Rev. M. Hislop, who 

 has continued to add to the magnificent series of fossil plants from 

 that district, which it is hoped will ere long be described by some of 

 our palaeontologists. 



Amongst the British specimens, Mr. Statham's polished section of 

 one of the typical species of Devon Coral, the boulder from the 

 chalk of Croydon, presented by Dr. Young, lately described by Mr. 

 Godwin-Austen, Mr. Pettit's Clathraria from Leighton, and spe- 

 cimens of the Woodocrinus from Mr. E. "Wood, of Richmond, may 

 be mentioned as valuable additions to the Museum. Mr. Harris of 

 Charing has sent a large supply of the fossiliferous ironstone of the 

 North Downs ; and the fossils are being carefully worked out and 

 mounted. 



Prof. H. D. Rogers has kindly superintended a partial re-arrange- 

 ment of the North American series of fossils. He has also added to 

 it a number of the wanting species, and has kindly promised to 

 make a farther revision of the collection next year. We hope that 

 other Fellows of the Society may be induced to follow the example 

 of Prof. Rogers in undertaking the arrangement and description of 

 the collections above noticed. 



The Assistant-Secretary reports that he has received valuable aid 

 in the work of the Library and Museum from Mr. J. Wetherell, 

 whose services the Council engaged in April last, and that he has 

 found him very attentive to his duties. 



In accordance with the recommendation made by the Museum 

 Committee last year, the Society's Collection of Foraminifera and 

 Bryozoa was placed in the hands of W. K. Parker, Esq., who has, 

 at a slight expense to the Society, sorted and carefully and beautifully 

 mounted the specimens, on mahogany slips, many with glass covers, 

 so that after some farther attention to the naming of the specimens, 

 they will be commodiously arranged for study. 



N. S. Maskelyne. 

 T. F. Gibson. 

 R. W. Mylne. 

 \Y. W. Smyth. 



