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REPORT OE THE 
Geology. —During this year the Palaeontological Collections 
have received as a bequest from our late Honorary Curator of 
Geology, a most important addition, the Elwes Collection of 
Tertiary Fossils This acquisition raises our British Tertiary 
Collection to the second place in the Kingdom. 
To our generous benefactor we are further indebted for a 
Collection of Scotch Carboniferous Polyzoa, a Collection of 
Australian Tertiary Fossils, a Collection of Pleistocene 
Mollusca and a number of useful and valuable works of 
reference relating chiefly to Geology and Zoology. 
Mr. J. F. Walker has enriched our Yorkshire Jurassic Fauna 
by the addition of two species of Brachiopoda new to the 
County, and has added specimens of these species to the 
collection. Further reference to his discoveries will be found 
at the end of this Beport. 
Donations have also been received from Mr. J. E. Clark and 
Mr. Atkinson. 
MiNKRALOGY.—Veiy little has been done in this department 
during the past year. The additions made to the collections 
have been limited to rock specimens. These consist of a few 
metamorphic and igneous rocks, and some specimens from the 
Kimberley mines. 
Conchological Department. —In last year’s report the 
Curator announced the re-discovery r of Lirntma Glutinosa in 
Yorkshire. This year he has secured some specimens for the 
Museum from the new locality, viz., the Skidby Drain,near Hull. 
Local specimens of another scarce shell, Vertigo pmilla , have 
also been added to the collection, found by the Honorary 
Curator on a moss-grown wall at Ay ton. 
He regrets that the general collection has not received any 
additions during the past year, especially as many genera are 
still unrepresented. 
. Entomology.— The Allis and Hey Collections are in good 
order. 
The Honorary Curator is about to carry out a scheme for 
re-arranging the Insects in the Museum, in such a way as to 
