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REPORT OF THE 
tlie debt of the Society, amoiinting to £3,500, principal and 
interest, in about thirty years, as detailed more fully in the 
previous year’s Eeport. 
GrEOLOGY.—The additions made to this department diming 
the past year have been numerous and important. A remark¬ 
ably large skull of the Cave Bear {JJrsus spelmis), with lower 
jaw and complete adult dentition, has been presented by the 
Honorary Curator (Mr. William Reed, F.Gr.S.), who has also 
enriched the collection with a verv fine series of bones and 
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teeth of Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Elephant, Bison, &c., 
from the Lower Grravel of Barrington; a set of Gault Fossils, 
and a series of Lower Tertiary Mollusca. 
The Honorary Curator has kept in view the resolution he 
expressed in last year’s Report of getting together an efficient 
teaching collection, to be solely used in the Museum, which should 
at once give the student practical acquaintance with his subj ect, 
and do away with all necessity for disturbing the general 
collection to attain this end. In furtherance of this plan he 
has presented to the Society an extensive series of Fossils 
(nearly 1,000 in number), together with 74 diagrams and a 
set of models of Foraminifera. The collection of Fossils 
(which contains none but thoroughly good and illustrative 
specimens) has been arranged zoologically, and is to be kept 
in a separate cabinet (presented by Mr. Reed), and used for 
teaching purposes only in the Museum. The stratigraphical 
teaching collection is in progress, and has been largely added 
to ; many specimens have been inserted into the general collec¬ 
tion ; a series of Mesozoic derivatives from the Red Crag, 
previously put away in drawers for want of space, has been 
exhibited in a separate case in the Tertiary Room. 
The Honorary Curator’s donation of over 200 books (to 
form a Reference Library) has greatly facilitated the work of 
the department. This donation will be referred to more in 
detail elsewhere. The Honorary Curator of Antiquities 
(Canon Raine) has added to the department several pieces 
of Red Deer antler of extraordinary size. Mr. J. F. Walker, 
Y.P., has made important donations. Specimens have also 
