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In the commencement of the Society's career, the Council, 
indulging the hope of being able to erect a suitable museum, had 
been enabled by the liberality of their Noble President to purchase 
a site ; but finding themselves at present disappointed in their 
expectations, they have considered it advisable to accept an 
advantageous offer for its disposal. In the meantime they have 
not neglected an object so important, but have fitted up the 
temporary Museum with cases, and can now invite the members 
to inspect it. The Collection, notwithstanding the short time 
since the cases were completed, amounts to nearly 1000 specimens, 
and contains many very valuable Fossils. There is, however, 
ample room for a much larger collection, and the Council most 
earnestly solicit every member to exert himself to add to its 
stores : and they beg to remind them that a knowledge of Fossil 
Botany is not in this case necessary, since any fossil and every 
mineral product, if accompanied with a statement of the place 
and stratum in which it is found, will have a value in the 
Museum of a Society such as this. 
In conclusion, the Council would express their conviction that 
the Society is steadily advancing in public estimation, and that 
it has only to persevere in the course it has hitherto pursued, to 
secure for it that support which will enable it to accomplish the 
objects for which it was established. 
