COUNCIL FOR 1894. 
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were 41 against 28 last year, 25 in 1892, and 17 in 1891. 
These are obtained by calling a simple glow 1, streamers 2, 
arch, or red and green streamers, 3, both these, or coruscations, 4. 
Mock Suns were noted on April 24th, May 20th, June 19th 
and November 12th. 
We again beg to acknowledge the kindness of the gentlemen 
who have supplied us with returns entered under their names 
in our tables. For many years we have been indebted to 
Mr. Stephenson, of Bridge Street, and Mr. Giles, the Deputy 
Town Clerk, for the daily height of the Ouse as shown by the 
Ouse Bridge Gauge It seems better now only to append the 
automatic records made at the Guildhall by Mr. Creer. The 
relative values of the two series can be seen by reference to last 
year’s tables. 
Report of Concho logical Section. —The most important 
addition to this department, in the past year, is a collection of 
foreign shells, presented by the late Mr. North. The collection 
is not a very large one, but valuable from the fact that the 
specimens are all localized and in exceptionally fine condition. 
The space still available for the exhibition of Foreign Shells 
is small, and it is most desirable that it should be occupied by 
genera not represented in the collection, rather than by adding 
to the number of species belonging to genera which, in several 
cases, are already somewhat over-represented. 
It is a source of regret to the Honorary Curator that the 
British Land and Freshwater Shells (which have been so 
assiduously studied of late years) are only very inadequately 
represented in the Museum, and, moreover, placed in a position 
particularly inconvenient for that close inspection which the 
minute size of many of them requires. He hopes to remedy 
this defect, in course of time, by presenting to the Society a 
cabinet containing a full series of the species and principal 
varieties of Terrestrial and Fluviatile Mollusca found in the 
British Isles. The pursuit of this attractive branch of Natural 
History is likely to receive a great stimulus by the publication 
of the most important work yet written upon it, which is at 
present issuing from the pen of a celebrated Yorkshire 
Conchologist, Mr. J. W. Taylor, of Leeds. During the past 
