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REPORT OE THE 
Geology. —The additions to the Geological Department 
during the year include gifts from the following gentlemen: — 
Eiev. Canon Eaine, M.A.; Rev. E. A. Healy, M.A.; Rev. J. 
Taylor, M.A. ; Mr. William Reed, F.G.S.; Professor 0. C. 
Marsh; Professor A. S. Herschel; W. H. Hudleston, Esq., 
M.A.; 0. D. Wolstenholme, Esq.; J. S. W. Kirkpatrick, Esq.; 
A. J. Barry, Esq.; S. Chadwick, Esq. ; G. Edson, Esq.; J. E. 
Jones, Esq.; F. Wright, Esq.; —Jackson, Esq., and C. S. 
Middlemiss, Esq. 
Some of the most important of these gifts are fossils from 
the Yorkshire rooks, such as the choice specimens of Sponges, 
MoUusca,Echinoder)nata,etc., from the Yorkshire Chalk, presented 
by Mr. S. Chadwick, of Malton; and the series of Ironstone 
fossils from Grosmont, presented by Mr. Wm. Reed. 
Also the collection of Yorkshire fossils has been further 
increased by numerous specimens, collected by the Keeper of 
the Museum, many of them from localities hitherto unrepre¬ 
sented in the Museum. These are species from the Lower 
Jurassic Sands and Dogger of the Peak near Whitby, and 
from Glaisdale, the Scarborough Limestone of Gilling near 
Coxwold, and Stonecliffe Wood near Castle Howard, and from 
the Lower and Middle Oolites, especially the Kelloway Rock, 
of the new Railway Cuttings (Hull and Barnsley line), near 
South Cave. 
A collection of Yorkshire Rocks is also in course of 
formation and many specimens have been obtained. In this 
way it is hoped that the inland Geology of Yorkshire will 
become more fully illustrated in the Museum, thus supplying a 
conspicuous want in the County collection. 
From Nor^vay a series of rocks principally metamorphic 
has been collected, and some examples of the newly discovered 
fossil remains from the metamorphic schists of Vagtdalen, 
South of Bergen, have been obtained. 
The arrangement of the specimens has been continued as 
before, the Coal Measures, Devonian, Carboniferous Limestone, 
Old Red Sandstone, Silurian, and Cambrian series, being 
placed in the drawers of the central case in the Tertiary Room. 
The drawers have been provided with card-board covers 
to protect them from the dust. 
