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ADDRESS OF THE COUNCIL. 
information has already been laid before the Society, 
and will shortly be before the public also, when the 
Introductory Lecture of that gentleman issues ffCmi 
the press. 
II. The Zoological Committee since its forma- 
tion have assiduously employed themselves in the 
fulfilment of the duties assigned to them, in which 
they have been ably assisted by several Members 
of the Society. To Mrs. G. Perrott, of the Chantry, 
near Fladbury, and to Mr. Jabez Allies, the Council 
are especially indebted for the valuable papers and 
specimens which they have at various times commu- 
nicated to this Committee. 
The Cases containing a rare and interesting collec- 
tion of serpents and lizards, and their allies, which 
have been presented to the Society's Museum by 
Sir Thomas Phillipps, require careful investigation, 
and will demand an attentive study for some time, as 
the papers to which their numbers refer have unfor- 
tunately been lost. The Committee hope, however, 
ultimately to name them according to the latest 
classification. 
A small number of crania have been deposited in 
the Museum, which the Council are very desirous of 
encreasing, as it is of the utmost importance that the 
Zoological Committee should be enabled to proceed 
in their osteological researches with every possible 
advantage, the system of the great expounder of 
Zoology (the lamented Cuvier), according to which it 
is proposed to arrange the collection of Mammalia 
when this department of the Museum is in a more 
