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including Mr. Reed’s original Mnsenm, was weakest, while in 
the Wood collection these groups are most perfectly represented. 
Mr. Wm. Reed, F.Gr.S., our Honorary Curator of Greology, 
was already acquainted with Mr. Wood’s collection, and knew 
how important an addition it would he to the Society’s Mnsenm, 
and he therefore, as soon as the way to its ohtainment was open 
to him, at once decided to purchase the collection and present 
it to the Society. 
As a private collection of Carboniferous limestone fossils 
Mr. Wood’s Museum has never been equalled in England; and 
the other groups of the Hpper Palaeozoic rocks are also parti- 
cularlv fine. It is without doubt in the carboniferous 
Echinoderms, especially the Crinoids, that the colleetion is most 
remarkable, and it is best known to geologists as containing a 
magnificent series of those crinoids, or “ sea lilies,” named, in 
honour of their discoverer, Woodocriniis. Some hundreds of 
specimens of this beautiful fossil were obtained by Mr. Wood, 
the duplicates being liberally distrihuted throughout the various 
museums of Europe, while some 80 slabs, including all the 
more choice examples, remain in the collection. Many of the 
slabs contain several heads, some of them exhibiting as many as 
9 distinct individuals, so that we have altogether a very forest 
of these beautiful sea lilies. 
The spot where they were found is in a quarry at Lymmas 
House, Holgate, near Marske, a place in Swaledale, some 13 
miles from Richmond, and rather difficidt of access. They 
have not, to my knowledge, been found in any other locality. 
Another special feature in Mr. Wood’s Museum is the 
colleetion of “ Lamp Shells,” or Braehiopods. These were 
arranged separately in the cabinets at Richmond, and it is clear 
from his wide-ranged collecting and careful arrangement that 
Mr. Wood devoted special attention to this group. The finest 
of these shells are from tlie carboniferous limestone of York¬ 
shire and Derbyshire, but they cover the whole of the geological 
series, and include many fine groups from the Permian, Lias, 
Oolitic, and Cretaceous formations. 
There are numerous tjqoe specimens, principally crinoids and 
Braehiopods, in the collection, figured and described in various 
