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Blake’s Yorkskire Lias; next follow tlie Blisetic, Triassic, 
Permian, Coal measures, Millstone Grit series and Carbon¬ 
iferous Limestone. Tbe collection is very deficient in good 
specimens from the last named formation. 
The Yorkshire collection has been enriched by the donations 
of our Honorary Member, W. H. Hudleston, Esq., of a fine 
specimen of Ammonites Berry from the Upper Calcareous 
Grit of Kirkdale, and of Araucaria HucUestoni from the Coral¬ 
line Oolite of Malton. He has also given a very fine slab of 
Trigonia elavellata from the Coralline Oolite of Weymouth, 
which is useful for comparison with the slabs of Trigonia perlata 
in our Yorkshire collection. 
The general collection has been increased by the presenta¬ 
tion of a series of Eossils from the Sponge Gravel Beds 
near Farringdon, belonging to the Lower Green Sand, by 
Mr. Whitwell, of Holgate, and a series of Photographs of 
sponges from E. Davey, Esq., Wantage, Berks. Miss H. M. 
Crompton has given a fine Eish from the Eocene Beds of 
Monte Bolca; J. E. Walker, Esq., a large specimen of 
Ammonites sjnnatus from South Petherton; and the Honorary 
Curator a Cast of a molar tooth of Mastodon Borsoni from the 
Bed Crag, Suffolk. 
The Curator of Ornithology reports the addition of the 
White Spoonbill (Platalia leucorodia) , to the Pudston collection, 
which he purchased, having been taken by Anthony Savage in 
the decoy at Hornby Castle, 1865. He has also to report the 
captm’e of two specimens of the large Bittern (Ardea stellaris), 
one killed by Col. Napier at Buttercrambe Moor, on Jan. 10, 
1877, which proved to be a female, and another shot at Moss, 
below Askern, Jan. 9, 1877, by Mr. Hindle, Surgeon, of the 
latter place, and now in the possession of Mr. Yarborough, 
Camps Mount. It is remarkable that they were killed on two 
consecutive days, 20 miles apart. Also a specimen of Honey 
Buzzard, killed at ICilburn, and a Sea Eagle, on Thornton 
Moor, Northumberland. A Woodcock’s nest was found on 
Wass Banks, April 20, 1877, on bare ground, composed of a 
few straws and dried leaves. The Curator has also to record an 
