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REPORT OF 
adapting some of tlie furniture to new uses, and in preparing 
Zoological specimens, and some useful purchases have been 
made for the Museum. 
As, however, the best index of the condition of the Instil 
tution is the favour of the public, the Members will learn 
with pleasure that by far the greatest additions made to the 
Library and Museums have been received as heretofore 
from voluntary contributions. Not to dwell on the numerous 
specimens furnished by Miss Gurney, Mr. Egerton, 
Hatieild, Mr. Prestwich, Mr. Wm. Gray, Professor Phillips, 
and Mr. Plarcourt, to the already large collections in the 
Geological Museum, the Council wishes to call especial at- 
tention to the noble monument of the ancient condition of the 
British Islands, the great extinct Elk of Ireland, presented 
])y G. L. Pox, Esq. from his estate near Waterford. In this 
magnificent relique of other days the mind recognizes one 
of those characteristic forms of vanished beings, the study of 
which has given to the name of Cuvier an imperishable renown, 
and to the world at large subjects of inquiry and contempla¬ 
tion concerning the natural history of the earth, which must 
outlast this and many generations; and it may surely be 
pardoned to the Members of the Yorkshire Philosophical 
Society, if they feel an honest pride in being the first to 
place in an English Museum a skeleton of this gigantic 
animal. 
Considerable additions have been made to the Zoological 
collections, especially to the departments of Ornithology and 
Entomology. One hundred and thirty-seven birds from Au¬ 
stralia, collected by Capt. E. Markham ; thirty birds from 
the Himalaya, the gift of Dr. Wake ; besides some valuable 
species given by other friends of the Institution have enabled 
the officers to put the collection of foreign birds in a condition 
more equal to that of other departments of the Museum. 
