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of tlie Geological Magazine^ to tlie effect that he had a quantity of 
fossils from the coal measures, for distribution amongst those 
interested in such objects who should make application for them. 
As keeper of the Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 
he (Mr. Dallas) applied, and in return received the specimens which 
were exhibited to the meeting. Mr. Dallas then gave some par¬ 
ticulars respecting them, and stated that several were very distinct 
teeth, scales, vertebrae, rib bones, and other miscellaneous remains 
of fossil fishes, and that although the Society had in its collection 
duplicate specimens of some of them, the donation would prove a 
very acceptable acquisition to the Museum. 
