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been associated with his venerable friend for upwards of forty 
years, and in the most intimate bonds of friendship. Many 
years ago Mr. Allis conveyed to this society a large collection 
of osteological specimens exhibiting a wonderful amount of 
scientific industry and of persevering devotion to the interests 
of this society, and in that loving devotion both to science 
and to this society he had never from that day to this, 
according to the measure of his strength, relaxed. The 
collection which had been presented to them formed a durable 
monument at once of the love and devotion of the son of Mr. 
Allis to the pursuit of science, in one of its least popular but 
most difficult departments, and of the interest and affection 
of the father for the advancement of science in this city. 
The possession of such a cabinet of entomological science 
placed that museum in the very foremost rank of museums 
in this country. As long as it remained in a complete and 
available condition, there was a resource there for instruction 
in entomology, which was not afforded by any other local or 
provincial museum in this country. 
November 1st. —The Rev. J. Kenrick read a communica¬ 
tion from the Rev. Canon Raine, respecting the Saxon Cross 
lately set up in the lower room of the Hospitium. The Cross 
in question was found some years ago in Wakefield, by Mr. 
Harrison constituting the door step to a barber’s shop. Mr. 
Harrison gave it to Mr. Edmund Waterton, who showed it to 
me in an outhouse at Walton. It was his intention to set it 
up in a mortuary chapel, which he proposed to erect over the 
remains of his father, the well-known naturalist. Mr. E. 
Waterton’s collections were dispersed in the course of the 
summer, and thinking that this cross might be lost among the 
many fragments of wood and stone by which it was surrounded, 
my wish was to secure it for our Museum. At my request Mr. 
Fairless Barber went over to Walton to look after the stone, 
and through his kind agency it was offered to this Museum 
by Canon Browne on the part of Mr. Waterton and Mr. 
Harrison (its discoverer), on the condition of our taking care 
of it. The thanks of the society are due therefore to those 
