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Mr. Birch, of the Pilot Service, various reptiles, fishes, and Crustacea, from the 

 vicinity of the Sandheads. 



Mr. Halfhyde, of the Preventive Service, a very fine specimen, just dead, of 

 Palceomis erytliroyenys of the Nicobars, also a stuffed example of Oat ration cor- 

 nut us } and some other specimens. 



Lastly, I must beg to express my thanks to the Joint-Secretary of the Society, 

 J. Laidlay, Esq., for the assistance he has rendered in setting up Mr. Strickland's 

 shells ; and the acknowledgments of the Society are due to him for a variety of 

 species (especially tertiary shells from the later deposits of the Paris basin), with 

 which he has enriched its collection : and I must also bring prominently to your 

 notice Mr. E. Lindstedt's volunteered services in setting up severel skeletons of 

 birds, (including a fine Emeu,) which, with a large collection of other skeletons 

 yet in store, had been long awaiting their turn to be mounted, with no immediate 

 prospect of it from the incessant demands of other duties upon the time of my 

 subordinates. 



In conclusion, I must take this opportunity of mentioning at least the names of 

 some of the most liberal of the many contributors to our Zoological collections, 

 during the last three years. It may seem almost invidious not to enumerate a still 

 longer list , but the Society has been very greatly indebted to the exertions of 

 Captain Phayre, and of Captain Abbott, in Arracan ; of the llev. J. Barbe, in Tip- 

 perah, the Tenasserim Provinces, the Nicobar Islands, and Penang ; also of Captain 

 Lewis, in the Nicobars, and at Tranquebar ; of E. O'Ryley, Esq. of Amherst ; of 

 the Rev. F. J. Lindstedt, Malacca ; of F. Skipwith, Esq. in Sylhet, Tipperah, and 

 Chittagong ; of Major Jenkins, in Assam ; C. S. Bonnevie, Esq. Rungpore ; Dr. 

 Stewart, now in Allahabad ; G.T. Lushington, Esq. Almorah ; — not to mention more 

 particularly Mr. Jerdon, Lord Arthur Hay, and Mr. Frith ; and we have received high- 

 ly valuable collections from the Royal University of Christiania ; of Malayan species 

 from the Natural History Society of Batavia ; and of Australian from the Sydney 

 Museum. Further collections are moreover at this time expected, and partly from 

 new contributors and fresh localities ; and we have every reason to hope and expect, 

 under existing encouragement, that the Zoological department of the Society's 

 Museum will continue to thrive as it has done, and to excite increasing interest 

 with all whose tastes lead them to study the diversified tribes of animals, which in 

 this country are everywhere so abundant, and yet so little generally known, for the 

 most part, even to professed students of systematic Natural History. 



I have the honour to be, &c. 



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