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REPORT OF THE 
British Insects is now in course of re-arrangement, in accordance 
with the most recent authorities in nomenclature and classifica¬ 
tion, and when this is completed it is hoped that this Cabinet 
will furnish a valuable standard of reference for persons studying 
this department of Natural History. 
The larger Lepidoptera have already been arranged by 
Messrs. Birks and Anderson, and specimens to help in filling 
up the numerous gaps in the series and to replace the many bad 
specimens previously existing in the Cabinet have been received 
from the latter gentleman and from Messrs. Allis, Brown, Dossor, 
Jackson, and Brest. The general arrangement of the Coleoptera 
and of the insects of other orders, will be undertaken by the 
Keeper of the Museum under the direction of the Curator, the 
Bev. Canon Hey. It is proposed, in addition to the closed 
Cabinets, to place a smaller collection of type specimens, exem¬ 
plifying the general classification of British Insects, in the fiat 
cases of the Gallery in the British Ornithological Boom, for the 
inspection of Visitors generally. The remainder of these eases 
is occupied by the Hailstone collection of Crustacea and the 
British Echinodermata of the Society’s collection. 
The Botanical Collection is in good order, but the only 
additions to the Herbarium during the past year have been two 
specimens of Potentilla rupestris, one of the rarest of British 
plants, from Breiddyn Hill, presented by TV "Whitwell, Esq., of 
Oswestry. 
The Library has been enriched by the addition of 
“D’Orbigny’s Paleontologie Erancaise,” purchased, as indicated 
in the report for 1865, out of the proceeds of Mr. Kenrick’s 
Volume of Essays. 
The Curator of the Meteorological Instruments reports 
as follows:—The Temperature of York for the year 1866 was 
slightly above a mean of ten years, as will be seen by the annexed 
table. This result is owing to the high temperature of the winter 
months; January, February, and December, being all above a 
mean. On the contrary, notwithstanding the high temperature 
attained in July, in which month three consecutive days reads- 
tered from 80 to 85 degrees, the mean of that month, as well as 
of May, June, August, and September, was below a mean. In 
