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REPORT OF THE 
G-eology. —The additions to the Geological Department 
during the past year have been of a mixed character, including 
specimens from the most ancient or Precambrian rocks and the 
most modern drifts. The donors are Mr. "William Peed,F.G.S., 
Pev. Canon Paine, M.A., Pev. W. 0. Hey, M.A., Pev. C. B. 
Norclifife, of Langton Hall; Mr. J. F. Walker, M.A., Mr. C. 
S. Middlemiss, Hull; Mr. Herries, B.A., Mr. C. E. Leeds, 
M.A., Mr. Bindley, Mr. Thomas Terry, Mr. Edward Clark, 
Bootham; Mr. W. Baines, of Bell Hall; Mr Mark Melvin, 
Mrs. Blathwayt, Mr. Peter Harrison, Keswick ; Mr. F. P. 
Hansill, Thirsk; Mr. S. W. North, F.G.S., and Mr. E. Evans, 
King’s College, Cambridge. 
Some important alterations and additions have taken place 
in the furniture of the department, namely, the shelves of the 
wall cases in the N.W. Poom have been altered so as better to 
display the Yorkshire Fossils. Mr. William Peed has pim- 
chased and presented a glass-topped Mahogany Case, with 30 
drawers, which is now placed in the N.W. Poom, also a glass- 
fronted Book Case, with cabinet of 48 drawers, for the Private 
room. Another Table Case has been obtained by fitting a 
glass top to the Mahogany Stand which formerly supported the 
Irish Elk in the Bird Poom. This case now stands in the 
Pudston Poom, and is filled with the fossils of the Permian 
Series. 
The arrangement of the Collection has been steadily con¬ 
tinued throughout the year, and by a special effort, all the 
exposed cases were put into order before the Meeting of the 
British Association in September. 
The three great collections now in the Society’s Museum, 
namely the old collection, Mr. Peed’s Collection, and the 
Museum formed by Mr. E. Wood, of Pichinond, are all incor¬ 
porated and arranged together, but the several sources of the 
specimens are carefully indicated. 
The general arrangement of the Yorkshire fossils has been 
completed. The bones from the celebrated Kirkdale Cave which 
were collected by Mr. James Atkinson, Mr. A. Thorp, and Mr. 
William Salmond, in the year 1821, are arranged in the new 
Table Case in the Yorkshire Poom; the remainder of the 
