COUNCIL FOR 1860 . 
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The Curator of Botany has to report no particular additions 
to the Society’s collection during the past year. 
The arrangement of the Geological collection has heen 
proceeded with by the Keeper of the Museum, and the entire 
series of Yorkshire Fossils, with the exception of the bones 
from the Kirkdale Cave, is now transferred to the rooms 
prepared for it. In making up this series the Collection 
purchased from Mr. Bean, as mentioned in the last Report, has 
been of the greatest assistance, furnishing considerably more 
than 2,000 specimens of Yorkshire Fossils alone, many of 
them the actual specimens figured by Professor Phillips in 
his work on the Geology of Yorkshire ; these, with other 
types of Professor Phillips’s species, which the Keeper of the 
Museum could discover in the Society’s collection, have been 
either mounted upon tablets, or marked with labels of a bluish 
green colour, so that any Geologist seeking for these types in 
the collection will be at once guided to the objects of his 
search. 
The principal additions to the Collection of Fossils during 
the past year, ha^e consisted of a numerous series of specimens, 
many of them very interesting, from the White and Red Chalk, 
the Speeton Clay, and the Oxford Clay of the Yorkshire coast, 
presented by the Rev. Henry Richardson; a beautiful set of 
Devonian Fossils, principally corals and sponges, from the 
neighbourhood of Torquay, presented by the Rev. John Kenrick, 
and a considerable number of specimens from various Oolitic 
beds in the vicinity of Cirencester, presented by Mr. J. F. 
Walker, of Gillygate. The latter gentleman, who is at present 
studying in the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, has 
kindly promised to lose no opportunity of obtaining Fossils 
from the strata of that locality, which are particularly interest¬ 
ing to us from their correspondence with those of our own 
County. The Society has also received from Mr. J. Musham, 
of Birmingham, an interesting set of plaster casts of the curious 
Silurian Cystidea in his collection, from the vicinity of Dudley, 
and from Mr. J. Peirson, of Micklegate, a small collection of 
Fossils, from the Crag of Sufiblk. 
The collection of Minerals has received no additions requir¬ 
ing notice, during the year 1860. 
