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REPORT OF THE 
the York Press,” in which, with his usual accuracy and 
comprehensiyeness of research, he has established the claim of 
our city to have been the first place in the pro’vdnces in which 
the profession of a printer was exercised, and chronicled its 
productions from the close of the 15th to that of the 18th 
century. 
The only additions to the Gteological Department of the 
Museum, of sufficient importance to deserve notice, are some 
good specimens of Eocene Tertiaries, presented by Mr. J. F. 
Walker, and Mr. Barkas’ fish remains from the Low Main 
Coal Seams. The principal work done has been the naming, 
remounting, and rearranging of the Eocene Fossils in accord¬ 
ance with modern classification, and the rearrangement of the 
whole of the side of the Greological Room occupied by the 
Tertiary and Cretaceous Fossils, so as to get the deposits in 
their proper sequence, the tickets indicating the nature of the 
dej)Osits in each case and on each shelf being also inserted. 
The Ciu’ator of Comparative Anato:my reports that there 
has been no addition to the Osteological collection during the 
past year. The Typical value of our skeleton of Dinornis 
Robustus, presented to the Museum by Dr.* Gribson, has been 
remarkably illustrated during the past year. The Illustrated 
London News of the 8th of February last contained figures of 
the skeletons of six different species of Dinornis, then mounted 
and standing in the Canterbury Museum, New Zealand. The 
bones of which these skeletons are composed had been discovered, 
assorted and mounted, with much care, labour, and ability, 
under the auspices of Dr. Julius Haast, Grovernment Greologist 
for the Province of Canterbury; but as he had not a typical 
form to which to refer, en’ors were committed in the construc¬ 
tion of the skeletons. The sternum was placed too high on the 
vertebral column, they all wanted the first pair of dorsal ribs, 
they also wanted a third pair of sternal ribs, and the Scapula 
coracoids, to which the bones of the wing should have been 
articulated, if the bird had possessed a ving, which however it 
did not. 
A friendly notice of these errors was sent to Dr. Haast, 
together with such photograplis of oiu’ skeleton as Avould enable 
