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deserve to be studied. No one can learn the names of these 
objects, without acquiring, at the same time, some knowledge 
of their properties; and no one can discuss the properties 
without possessing some knowledge of the names. 
The Society’s Collections have been increased to a very 
gratifying extent, by the contributions of the last year, 
especially in those parts of Natural History in which the 
Museum was most defective. It appears from the reports of 
the Curators, that the zoological specimens which have been 
added, amount to no less than One thousand, eight hundred 
and fifty, and the botanical to upwards of Four thousand. 
Among the additions in Zoology, should be iioticed the 
collection in several departments of the science from South 
America and the West Indies,' the specimens of Ornitho- 
rynchus from New South Wales,^ the Arctic Birds, including 
the Iceland Gull, given to the Society by the Naturalist of 
Zetland^ by whom that bird was first described, the Crabs 
from Brazil,^ the Corallines from the Yorkshire coast,^ the 
donation of two hundred valuable foreign Shells, ® and above 
all, the munificent entomological contribution of one thousand 
five hundred and forty-four British Insects, chiefly of the 
order Coleoptera, presented by a distinguished Naturalist of 
this County,'^ 
* Presented by Captain O. V. Vernon, R.N. ^ gy w. Marshall, Esq. F.G.S. 
® Lawrence Edmondstone. Esq. M.W.S. 
* By the Literary and Philosophical Society of Leeds. ® By Mrs. G. Bulmer. 
6 By Mrs. M. Dixon. ’ The Rev. James Dalton, F,L.S. 
