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REPORT OF THE 
space, to render the Collection more attractive to the Visitors 
and more useful to the Student. 
The Council notice with pleasure the great progress that 
has been made in the arrangement of the general Collection of 
Foreign Birds. About 1100 species, including the British 
Collection, are now named, and although great difficulty may 
perhaps present itself in naming the remaining species, about 
120 in number, owing to the want of works of reference in the 
Society’s Library, yet the Curator of Foreign Ornitholog}^, 
using the means within his power, and aided by the assistance 
of scientific friends, is not without hope of accomplishing this 
object. 
To the Collection of British Birds there have been no 
additions that require particular notice. In the room dedicated 
to the Budstone Collection the Council have directed a tablet 
to be erected in honor of the generous donor. The Council are 
also desirous of taking an early opportunity of adding to the 
pleasing effect of that Collection by making the glazing of the 
cases uniform. 
Since the last report the valuable series of British Insects, 
presented by the executors of the late Bev. G. P. Budd, has 
been incorporated with the Society’s Collection by Mr. Meynell. 
A large number of species has been named by him, and a 
marked Catalogue of the British Coleoptera has been provided 
by the Bev. W. Hey, the Curator of that department. 
The Collection of Insects, however, is still very deficient in 
Lepidoptera; none of which were among the specimens received 
by the Society from Mr. Budd’s executors. 
The cabinet of Foreign Entomology has been carefully ex¬ 
amined and put into good condition. 
In the Antiquarian department the donations have not been 
numerous. A few Coins have been added to the cabinet, none 
of which require any particular notice. The Society is indebted 
to the Yorkshire Antiquarian Club for some further additions 
to the British and Saxon remains in the Museum, the result of 
excavations at Acklam and other localities in Yorkshire. A 
very interesting addition to the Boman Antiquities was made 
in the early part of the year, by the purchase of a large stone 
