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REPORT OF THE 
The Curator of Mineralogy reports:—In the Greological De¬ 
partment, during the past year, the minerals and the cases have 
been cleaned and the specimens partly re-arranged. New 
labels are now being prepared for them, under the direction of 
the Curator. A few minerals have been presented, of which 
the most important are a small collection, by Mrs. W. Y. 
Harcourt, chiefly from Madeira, of an interesting character. 
The Curator of Botany reports:—That the English and 
Foreign Herbaria are in a good state of preservation. The 
Curator has pleasure in stating that the English Herbarium 
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(chiefly collected by the late Samuel Hailstone, Esq.) was 
inspected by Mr. Lawson, the professor of Botany at Oxford, 
whilst on a visit to York last spring, who considered it a 
valuable part of the property of the Museum, and well worthy 
of care and preservation. 
The Ciuator of Insects and Crustacea reports:—Some pro¬ 
gress has been made in the rearrangement of the Cabinet of 
Coleoptera, in accordance with the present state of Science, but 
in other respects there is nothing in the state of the Society’s 
collections which calls for special remark on the present occasion. 
The Ciuator of the Ornithological Department has only to 
report the addition of a Tern, and a singular variety of Field¬ 
fare, presented by The Eev. Canon Johnstone, and that the 
Collection is in a good state of preservation. 
The Curator of Meteorology reports :—That the temperatiue 
of the year 1871 was one degree beloio a mean of 35 years, viz., 
of Fahr. This deficiency occurred chiefly in the last foiu 
months of the year. February, March and August were 
respectively 3, 5, and 3 degrees above a mean. The first week 
in August, at Creenwich, was 6 degrees above a mean of 50 
years. On the 12th of that month, the thermometer in the 
shade, registered at Grreenmch 88 degrees, at Kew 86^^°, at 
York 82°, being at Grreenwich 10 degrees above a mean of 50 
years. The temperature of November was 4 degrees below a 
mean. A heavy fall of snow occuiTed on the 10th : the mean 
temperatiue from that day to the 10th of December was 32j^°, 
or 8 degrees below the mean of that period for 35 years. 
