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work of re-mounting and re-labelling all these exhibits under 
the watchful care of the Sub-Curator, Mr. W. Watson. The 
work is being done to the entire satisfaction of the Council. 
The re-arrangement of exhibits is adding much space for the 
display of many valuable specimens not previously shown. As 
the cases themselves are being re-painted the whole depart¬ 
ment appears to be renewed. 
A special gift of fossils from the Kilkenny beds of Ireland 
has been made to the Museum by Professor J. Johnson, D.Sc., 
F.L.S., M.R.I.A., to whom the formal thanks of the Council 
were sent. 
Library. —There is little change to note in the matter of the 
Serial Publications which the Library receives by donation 
and purchase. Among those received by donation, special 
mention must, however, be made of the Transactions and 
Proceedings of the Royal Society, sent on to us by the Rev. 
Professor T. G. Bonney, F.R.S. The list of those purchased 
is as follows, and the donations appear in their usual place in 
the Report. 
Archaeological Association, Journal of the British. 
Archaeological Journal, Yorkshire. 
Birds, Thorburn’s British. 
Charters, Farrer’s Early Yorkshire 
Connoisseur. 
Geological Magazine. 
Knowledge. 
Mammals, History of British, by B. Hamilton. 
Mollusca of the British Isles, by John W. Taylor. 
Museums Journal. 
Nature. 
Natural History, Annals and Magazine of. 
Nautical Almanack. 
Numismatic Chronicle. 
Palaeontographical Society, Publications of the. 
Palseontog. Suisse, Memoirs de la Societe. 
Parish Register Society, Yorkshire. 
Ray Society, Publications of the. 
Spink’s Circular. 
Surtees Society, Publications of the. 
Thoresby Society Publications. 
Yorkshire Geological Society, Proceedings of. 
