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Marlstone of the Yorkshire Coast. The Council have requested the 
Keeper of the Museum, to watch the progress of the Railway excava¬ 
tion near Bridlington, with a view to complete the History of the 
interesting Tertiary deposit there, the fossils of which may now be seen 
in the same case with the congenerous remains of the Suffolk Crag. 
From beyond the limits of Yorkshire we have received a specimen of 
part of the head of an undescribed genus of quadrupeds, (allied to 
Hyracotherium,) from Herne Bay, presented by Wm. Richardson, 
Esq., and a great number of contributions from the Mountain Lime¬ 
stone, Kimmeridge Clay, Chalk, London Clay, and the Tertiary beds 
of the Isle of Wight. These contributions, filling fifty drawers, have 
been obtained by a system of exchanges, which Mr. Charlesworth 
has brought into action, and which he has supported chiefly by the 
liberal appropriation of his own large series of duplicate Crag fossils, 
for the Society’s collection yields in fact very few duplicates even 
from Malton, Whitby, Speeton, or Flamborough. Another service 
which Mr. Charlesworth has rendered to the Society, and to Geolo¬ 
gists in general, is the compilation of an extensive catalogue of British 
fossils and the preparation of it for the press in a form adapted to the 
labelling of collections. The first part of this catalogue, embracing 
the fossils of the tertiary formations, is nearly ready for publication. 
During the past year some interesting additions have been made 
to the Flora of Yorkshire,* and the zealous Curator of Botany ex¬ 
presses his expectation of seeing the Herbarium (now conveniently 
arranged for study,) much enlarged in respect of the rarer species. 
He has drawn the attention of the Council to the insufficiency of 
the Botanical part of the library, a defect certainly not confined to 
that department of Natural History. Nor is the Antiquarian part of 
the Library more complete. The Society has indeed received many 
donations of valuable books; it has purchased some of a beautiful 
and costly character; it subscribes annually for a few periodical 
works; its shelves are full, but not so well filled as to attract many 
readers to the Library. The Council are satisfied that these evils 
may be remedied: they have resolved to render the Library more 
conveniently accessible, by stationing in the room for certain hours 
daily, a person to act as clerk, and register the issue and replacement 
of books, and they will direct immediate attention to the completion 
of the catalogue. 
*See List of Papera read to the Society. 
