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within three miles of the City of York. This small area is so 
rich in shell that such a collection has peculiar interest, 
including, as it does, some fifty well-marked species, and not a 
few interesting varieties. One York Shell {Paludina contecta) 
has become extinct of late years, and several others have not 
been met with lately, and are, possibly, also lost to the area in 
question. These species are Helix aculeata^ Helix rufescenSy and 
Clausilia riigosa. Such summers as that of last year (1887) are 
very prejudical to Land and Fresh-water Molluscs. The 
additions to the collection of Foreign Shells have been only 
few and far between. Out of a miscellaneous collection of 
shells presented to the Society by Lord Teignmouth, a small 
number are new to our cabinets. There are still some very 
large gaps in the less showy families, but the Curator hopes to 
obtain a good many additions by Foreign Correspondence 
in the present year. 
Entomoligical Department (including Crustacea).'— 
A hiatus in the collection of Crustacea has been filled up by 
specimens of the Norway Lobster ( Ne])hrops NorvegicusJ, 
taken in deep water off Hartlepool. 
The Entomological Department has received no additions 
of importance, except two cases of Foreign Insects presented 
by Joseph Wilkinson, Esq. It is, however, perhaps worthy of 
record that an entomologist inspecting the Society’s splendid 
collection of Lepidoptera (made by Mr. Allis), remarked it 
was almost the only case he had met with of collections of 
insects bequeathed to Museums being thoroughly well cared 
for. The Curator is not working at the collection of British 
Coleoptera, as his own very fine collection will, at some future 
date, pass into the possession of the Society. 
Comparative Anatomy.- —The collections in this department 
are in good order. The most important addition made during 
the past year, is the skeleton of a thorough-bred bull dog, 
presented through Mr. W. Deed, the Honorary Curator of 
Geology, by Thomas Pratt, Esq., Y.S., of Eipon. This 
skeleton is perfect, and has been carefully set up and mounted 
by Mr. Gerard. The Honorary Curator wishes to call the 
