COUNCIL FOR 1892. 
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loss. Mr. Beed is too well known to all members of this 
Society to render any biographical notice necessary, and in this 
museum his generosity is so much in evidence that no detailed 
list of his gifts is needed. But it may not be generally known 
that our late benefactor bequeathed us all his fossils, all his 
scientific books, and that he further left £600 in trust, the 
interest on which sum was to be spent in the purchase of books 
and fossils for the museum. 
