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REPORT OF THE 
Besides supplying other public Establishments with dupli¬ 
cate specimens from Kirkdale, Mr. Salmond retained a few 
for his own examination. At his death, these were purchased 
for the Society, and such of them as appeared requisite to 
complete its collection, have been placed in the Museum; the 
remainder have been presented by the Council to the Literary 
and Philosophical Society of Leeds. When the Yorkshire 
Museum was built, the Council marked their respect for Mr. 
Atkinson by appropriating one of the upper rooms to receive 
his anatomical collections. These have now become the pro¬ 
perty of the York Medical School, and the large room which 
they filled is at the disposal of the Curators for augmenting 
the public exhibitions. 
This is an important consideration; for in consequence of 
the increase of the collections in several departments enlarged 
space is absolutely required for their proper classification. 
The geological cases are full, and it is impossible to defer 
much longer the execution of a plan which has been for some 
time under consideration, by which the Foreign specimens 
may be separated from the British series, and perhaps a 
foundation laid for an arrangement of Organic Remains, in 
the order of their natural affinities. 
The principal additions made to the zoological collections 
are in the departments of Ornithology and Conchology. 
There is not any want of new cases for these collections, yet 
it appears desirable to take advantage of the additional room 
now placed at the disposal of the Council, and to provide 
larger means for the distribution of Birds, and a separate 
place for the collection of Comparative Osteology. 
Of this valuable series of skeletons and other preparations 
of vertebrated animals, Mr. Allis presents this day the first 
part of an arranged catalogue; and the Council think that if 
