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him to correct them; the communication was received by him 
in the same friendly spirit in which it was sent, and a letter 
was received from him expressing his cordial thanks, and 
accompanied by a copy of the photograph from which the 
figures in the Illustrated News were taken, together with the 
promise of another photograph of the same skeletons when 
restored to their normal condition. 
Dr. Haast says that 15 specimens of Dinornis were discovered 
in an area of peaty soil, six feet square and four feet deep ; other 
skeletons were however found separate; he only succeeded in 
prociu’ing one perfect specimen of the Scapula coracoid, though 
he met with several fragments of that bone. It therefore 
appears that the Scapula coracoid belonging to our skeleton and 
the one found by Dr. Haast are the only two ^perfect bones of 
the kind known to be in existence. 
The Curator of Entomology reports that during the past 
year Mr. Dallas has completed the arrangement of a selection 
of specimens intended to illustrate the different orders, and to 
show their relation to one another. These have been placed in 
the gallery of the room containing the Eudston Bead collection 
of Birds. The general collections in the cabinets are in a fair 
state of preservation, but they are in much disorder. The 
rearrangement of them, so as to adapt them to the present state 
of science, will require much time and labour. 
The Curator of Botany, and Mr. Baines the Sub-Curator 
have examined the British Herbaria, presented by Mr. Dalton 
and Mr. Hailstone, and found them in a good state of preser¬ 
vation. Mr. Baines has also spent considerable time and labour 
in examining the Foreign Herbarium, and after removing a 
few specimens which had been affected by the damp, has left it 
in a very good condition. A miscellaneous collection of dried 
Foreign Plants, presented by Giles Munby, Esq., of Algeria, 
and some by the late S. Stapylton, Esq., from America, which 
had not been named and arranged, were found to have been 
attacked by moths. The Curator therefore advised Mr. Baines 
to destroy those that were thus rendered useless, as the exist¬ 
ence of the whole foreign Herbarium might have been en¬ 
dangered by their preservation. The Curator also thinks it 
