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REPORT OE THE 
This specimen was killed at Scorhorongli, near Beverley, 1834, 
and is mentioned in Yarrell and Gould: also the addition of a 
specimen of the Great Snipe, Scolopax Major, shot at Hayton, 
September 24, 1878, and a variety of the common Starling, 
presented hy Alderman Melrose, shot at Clifton Croft. 
He has also to record a curious pied variety of the Peewit, 
shot at Whitley Bridge on the Pontefract and Goole Pailway, 
hy Major Eadon; its appearance was so varied and singular 
that he wrote to the Major about it, who kindly replied hy 
stating that if he ever parted with it, the Museum should 
possess it. Sea Mews, Goosanders, and Wild Swans have visited 
this neighbourhood during the severe storm this Winter. 
Botany.—The Curator of Botany reports that the British 
and Foreign Herbaria are in a good state of preservation. 
There have been no additions to this department during the 
past year. 
Department of Comparative Anatomy.—The Curator of 
Comparative Anatomy reports that the Irish Elk was re-articu¬ 
lated and set up in the new Ethnological room, in close 
proximity to the Flint Implements and other works of pre¬ 
historic man with whom it is supposed to have been con¬ 
temporary. It was placed on a platform well adapted for its 
display and as high as the room would admit, hut it was found 
not to be sufficiently elevated to he free from handling hy 
visitors and consequent risk of injury designed or unintentional. 
It has been remounted in the centre of the foreign bird room, 
the platform being raised on the top of a new stand which is 
arranged to hold hones, and other specimens recjiiired for 
reference hut not of sufficient general interest to displace other 
objects iiov/ exhibited in the wall cases. 
The work of re-arrangement, which is urgently required, has 
not been carried out in consequence of want of funds. It is 
hoped that these may be shortly forthcoming so that other 
valuable specimens not exhibited at present m^ij be incor¬ 
porated Avith the collection before the Meeting of the British 
Association. 
