council roil 1866. 
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from North Yorkshire, the interest of which is enhanced by the 
details and specimens of their associated rocks which accompanied 
them. 
The only addition to the collection of Comparative 
Anatomy consisted of a series of bones of the Dodo, collected 
in the Mauritius by H. P. Pligginson, Esq., and presented by 
him to the Museum. These bones, as stated in a letter from 
Mr. Higginson, were found in a great bog, called the Mare des 
Songes, in considerable quantities, by himself and Mr. Clarke. 
Mr. Higginson’s specimens were sent home by him to be divided 
between the Museums of Liverpool and York, and the portion 
which fell to our share included fragments of the upper and 
lower jaws, a sternum, a pelvis, several vertebrae, and some bones 
of the limbs. These bones, together with casts from the Oxford 
specimens of the head and foot (the former presented last year 
by Professor Phillips), are now arranged and placed in the case 
near the pigeons, with which the Dodos are now almost unani¬ 
mously associated by Naturalists. 
The Curator of British Ornithology has to report the pre¬ 
sentation of a very perfect and beautiful collection of British 
Birds, by Mrs. Trevenen, the sister of the late Arthur Strickland, 
Esq., of Bridlington Quay, one of the most zealous and scientific 
Ornithologists of his day. 
This collection was made during a long series of years, and 
in value and interest is not to be surpassed by any other private 
one. Mrs. Trevenen’s attachment to her brother induced her 
to purchase it from his widow for a large sum, that she might 
present it to the Society in memory of this Naturalist. This 
indeed would have been done by himself, had his circumstances 
allowed it. The Curator ventures to mention several specimens 
of great value which are rare visitants and in very few Museums, 
viz., The Great Auk, Bed-breasted Goose, Spur-winged Goose, 
Swallow-tailed Kite, Dalmatian Begulus, Great White Heron, 
Bulwer s Petrel, &c. &c. This grand addition to their other 
British Birds gives the Society an unrivalled collection, which 
will afford pleasure to the lovers of British Ornithology as also 
to the general public. 
The Entomological Curator reports that the Cabinet of 
