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REPORT OF THE 
Mr. Tindal, and Mr. E. Allen. The collection of Mr. Bamgh 
has a peculiar value, as having been in a great measure derived 
from ground in his occupation, or that of his friends, and 
consequently being exempt from all suspicion of forgery. 
Placed side by side, in the Hospitium, vuth the rude implements 
from the valley of the Somme, presented by M. Boucher de 
Perthes, they show a progress in the art of their manufacture, 
which implies a long interval of time. Mr. Tindal has long 
been knovm as a careful collector of specimens from the Wolds, 
in the neighbouiPood of Bridlington, and his donation includes 
all the different classes into which these implements have been 
divided. Mr. Allen was only able to obtain a small portion of 
a deposit of similar objects, discovered in an excavation near 
the banks of the Ouse; but they are suflB.cient to show their 
identity with those, which are so abundant in the eastern 
district of the county. 
The additions to the Oeological Collection, during the past 
year, have not been important or numerous, but at the same 
time will prove valuable acquisitions to the Museum, by sup¬ 
plying specimens which were not preriously in the possession 
of the Society. A large collection of various fossils has been 
presented by Lord Wenlock, amongst which are some re¬ 
markably fine specimens of Ferns, and seed vessels from the 
Carboniferous Strata, and a few well preserved specimens of 
Fishes from the Lias. 
To A. Wanklyn, Esq., of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 
the Society are indebted for a series of Fossils from Bouime- 
mouth, containing new Ferns discovered and described by 
himself. This collection is especially acceptable, as hitherto 
the Museum was deficient in any representatives of the fossil 
remains of this locality. 
From Lord Wenlock the Mixeralogical Collection has 
been increased by the presentation of a large nmnber of 
Minerals from the volcanic districts of Italv, and also a series 
of cut and polished Agates. Some of the latter are pariicularly 
beautiful, and, in a scientific point of view, valuable from the 
structure which they present, being illustrative of the method, 
by which these concretions are natmally formed. 
