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REPORT OF THE 
greatest care and judgment for its execution, and Mr. Dew has 
effected it so satisfactorily as to have added far more to the 
value of the specimen than the sum of £18, which was paid 
to him for his services. It is now one of the most interestinsr 
and valuable fossils in the Museum. Mr. Dew also found time 
to operate upon one or two other specimens of Saurian remains 
in the collection, one of which, the large Teleosaurus Chap- 
manni, formerly placed in the Vestibule, has been greatly 
improved. 
In fitting up the new rooms, the Council have necessarily 
been somewhat straitened by the feeling that they were incur¬ 
ring a heavy responsibility in exceeding the amount subscribed 
to the " Museum Enlargement Fund.” They nevertheless 
considered it to be their duty to push forward the work, feeling 
convinced that nothing can tend so much to the welfare of the 
Society, as a proper degree of activity in promoting the objects 
for which it exists. With this view they proceeded early in 
the year 1859 to fit up the new room at the end of the Osteolo- 
gical room, for the reception of Mr. Rudston Read’s valuable 
collection of British Birds, which during the spring was moved 
into its new position by INIr. D. Graham. Here the birds am 
better displayed than in the apartment formerly devoted to 
them; and the change has this further advantage, that one of 
the greatest ornaments of the Museum is placed in an appro¬ 
priate and prominent position. A large glass case which 
occupies one corner of the room will serve for the reception of 
most, if not the whole, of the British Mammalia, and as the 
Council are most anxious to fill up this void in the collections, 
they earnestly beg any of the members who may have the 
opportunity, to assist them in procuring specimens, especially 
of the smaller British Quadrupeds. The collections of British 
Echinodermata and Crustacea, which are very imperfect, have 
been placed in one of the table cases in this room. They will 
eventually be transferred to the gallery cases, where they will 
be accompanied by collections of other groups of invertebrate 
animals, when the table cases will be vacant to receive the 
collection of British shells. Wall-cases in the gallery will be 
occupied by specimens of British Reptiles and Fishes, and thus 
