COUNCIL FOR 1884. 
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all good and sound specimens which are not in the cases simply 
because they are already adequately represented. In fact, this 
collection may be fairly spoken of as a representative and 
typical series of Tertiary and Secondary remains; it will 
necessarily be somewhat deficient in Palseozoic Fossils. Dp to 
the present the Tertiary and Cretaceous remains are arranged 
and labelled and the greater part of the Jurassic is also ready. 
In addition to the above, many of the Liassic and Rhoetic 
specimens have been remounted and labelled, a number of 
Eifelian (Devonian) specimens presented by J. F. Walker, 
Esq., M.A., have been named and inserted into the collection; 
an excellent series of Brachiopods of the same age collected 
and named by that gentleman having also been added; a 
valuable series of fossil fruits from the London Clay of Sheppey 
(presented by the Honorary Curator) has been put under 
glycerine in glass cells, and a number of Cretaceous and Jurassic 
fossils has been introduced. A collection of early historic 
mammalian remains intended to bridge over the gap between 
the Fen and Pleistocene periods and modern times has been 
commenced with a number of remains of Roman and Danish 
age, for which we are chiefiy indebted to the energy of our 
Honorary Curator of Antiquities, Canon Raine. 
In addition to the donations referred to further on, the 
collection has been increased by some fossils and rock specimens 
collected by the Keeper chiefiy from Grilling, Peak, Hayburn, 
Amotherby, Langton, Ayton, Appleton, and Hutton. 
Department of Antiquities. —The past year has not been 
a very eventful one in the Antiquarian Department. One 
Roman inscription has been added to the collection, an Altar 
dedicated to Silvanus by L. Celernius Yitalis, a cornet of the 
ninth Spanish Legion. This inscription possesses some features 
of considerable interest. Two small collections of Roman urns 
have also been acquired, one consisting of a selection of the 
Pottery collected by Mr. R. Smith when the New Railway 
Station was built; the other, a set of vessels of remarkable 
interest and beauty discovered on the Mount in 1863 with the 
sepulchral memorial of Corellia Optata, which is already in our 
