COUNCIL FOE, 1886. 
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Gteology. —Donations to this department have been received 
from the following gentlemen :—Mr. W. Eeed, F.Gr.S., (the 
Honorary Curator), Col. D. C. Walker, D.E., Mr. J. F. Walker, 
M.A., Mr. C. H. Parkinson, Lieut. Col, Peckitt, Mr. C. E. 
Leeds, and Mr. W. Collins of Knareshorough. Specimens 
have also being collected by the Keeper of the Museum, chiefly 
from places on the Coast between Scarborough and Whitby. 
During the year a number of specimens has been incorporated 
into the general collection ; the collection presented last year 
by the Honorary Curator has been arranged {Zoologically)^ 
labelled, and catalogued, while the stratigraphical secondarj^ 
collection has been virtually completed. 
Regret has often been expressed that the magnificent 
collection of Palaeozoic fossils, presented to the Society by the 
Honorary Curator, should have to be put away in drawers 
from want of space for its exhibition. Indeed, the only 
Palaeozoic fossils exhibited at present are from the Yorkshire 
Carboniferous, and the Durham Permian rocks. To meet this 
difficulty the Honorary Curator has undertaken to build a 
gallery in the room at present devoted to the Tertiary Collection, 
and to provide the gallery with wall cases. The space thus 
gained will amply suffice for the exhibition of the splendid 
series of fossils at present hidden away. 
Mineralogy. —There is but little alteration to report in this 
department. The Honorary Curator presented a small collec¬ 
tion of Minerals, which, it is hoped, may prove an useful addition 
from the fact that some species, not previously possessed by the 
Society, are therein represented by specimens of convenient size. 
Thirty specimens of Basalt, with enclosures, chiefly from 
Finkenberg, were presented by Mr. J. F. Walker, F.Gr.S. 
A small collection of hand specimens was presented by Miss 
Schwabe of Fulford, and a specimen of Btronfianite by Miss 
Dillon of Coney street. 
An exchange was effected with the Giggleswick Grammar 
School, by which the Society obtained four specimens of 
Tennantite ; and the mineralogical collection has been further 
enriched by 124 models of crystals (in pear wood), presented 
by Mr. William Reed, F.G.S. 
