COUNCIL FOR 1873. 
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Twenty-one Members, five Lady Subscribers, and seven 
Associates have been lost to the Society by death or resignation 
during the past year, whilst sixteen New Members, five Lady 
Subscribers, and four Associates have been added to the 
Society’s list. 
Among those lost to the Society by death are the Earl of 
Zetland, K. Gr., one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, and 
the Eev. Danson Eichardson Eoundell, of Giledstone, in this 
county, one of the earliest members of the Society, and a 
former Vice-President. Both the deceased members were 
munificent donors to the Greological department of the Museum. 
In 1852 the Earl of Zetland presented to the Society the 
specimen of Plesiosaurus Zetlandicus, so named by Professor 
Phillips in honour of the illustrious donor, and which along 
with the Ichthyosaimus crassimanus, hereafter to be mentioned 
as the donation of Mr. Eoundell, constitute most valuable 
additions to the saurian room of our Museum. 
The Eev. Danson Eichardson Eoundell died at his seat, 
Gledston Hall, in this county, on the 6th March last, at the 
venerable age of 89. He had at a former period of his life been 
a resident in this city for many years, and was well known as 
an active supporter of the various local Societies and Charities 
which had for their object the alleviation of suffering or the 
advancement of knowledge. 
Mr. Eoundell was one of the original subscribers to the 
building fund of the Museum, and has on more than one 
occasion held the office of Vice-President and Member -of 
Council of this Society. His name, however, will be chiefly 
associated in the annals of the Society with a donation which 
enabled the Society to secure for its Geological collection the 
magnificent specimen of the Ichthyosaurus crassimanus, now 
in the saurian room. This specimen had been discovered in 
the Lias at Whitby some short time prior to the year 1857. 
At the suggestion of Professor Phillips a subscription was 
begun for its purchase, which was rendered unnecessary by a 
donation of £1.10 from Mr. Eoundell, the price asked by the 
owners for the specimen. 
