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REPORT OF THE 
By thus employing to the greatest advantage the Collections 
already made, the Council conceive that the Society is 
strengthening its claim on the Members and the Public for 
increased assistance and co-operation. 
In the Geological department there have been no donations 
calling for particular notice, but the Council have the pleasure 
of reporting a general augmentation of the Collection, especially 
in the Fossils of the Carboniferous Limestone and in the 
Tertiary group. 
Valuable additions have been made to the Eocene Hampshire 
Fossils, and the Keeper of the Museum, during his visit to 
Suffolk in July last, obtained a very large Collection of the 
Fossils of the Crag, especially from the older or Coralline beds. 
The Council have been glad to accede to an application from 
Mr. Edwards, on behalf of the Palseontographical Society, for 
permission to borrow some of the new species in the Hampshire 
Collection, in order to figure them in the Monograph of 
British Eocene Mollusca, upon which that gentleman is now at 
Avork. Several of the Oolitic Echinodermata have also been 
entrusted to Prof. E. Forbes to assist him in the investigation 
of the species of this class, which he has undertaken as Pala?on- 
tologist to the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. 
Considerable progress has been made in the extension of the 
Collection of British Marine Becent Shells. The Avritten 
labels haA^e been replaced Avith neatly printed ones, and above 
100 species, of Avhich previously the Society possessed no ex¬ 
amples, have been added to our series by the British Natural 
History Society. These include some of the rarest knoAvn 
British Shells—among them are Fusus Norvegicus, in fine 
condition, obtained by Mr. E). Ferguson, from the Yorkshire 
Coast; Fusus Turtoni, dredged off the Northumbrian Coast 
by Mr. HoAves, of NeAvcastle; a living specimen of Tellina 
balaustrina, dredged alive by Professor Melville, in Gahvay 
Bay : Adis supranitida, from Southport; and a considerable 
number of the rarer forms among the Genera Bissoa, Odosto- 
mia, Mangelia, &c. Great pains have been taken by the 
Keeper of the Museum to insure accuracy in the determination 
of the species by personal or Avritten communication in doubtful 
