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REPORT OF THE 
Many of these are of extremely rare occurrence ; some are 
unique; and several specimens are the originals of the figures 
in Mr. Curtis’s splendid work on British Insects. 
The naming and arrangement of this extremely valuable 
collection in the Entomological Cabinet is now in progress, 
under the able superintendence of Mr. Meynell, a continuation 
of labours of a similar kind for which the Society is indebted 
to the same zealous member. 
The Society has through the intervention of the Naturalist 
Club received two masses of Calcareous grit from Newton Dale, 
exhibiting impressions of Star-fish, and constituting a very 
desirable addition to the fine series of Asteriadee, from the 
Yorkshire Oolite already in the Museum. 
To Mrs. Watson, of Thorpe, near Pocklington, the Society 
is indebted for the Tibia of an Elephant, found at Harswell, 
on the estate of Sir Chas. Slingsby, in digging for marie. This 
specimen is quite perfect, and in the highest state of preserva¬ 
tion. Though scarcely at all mineralised, it weighs 20 pounds, 
and measures round its upper extremity 23 inches. 
The Collections of Tertiary Fossils and recent British Shells 
have been enriched by further contributions from the British 
Natural-History Society. 
The series of shells obtained from the Hampshire Tertiary 
beds (now exhibited in the Museum) includes 320 species, 
about 150 of which are new or unfigured as British Fossils. 
Of the generic types, among which these 150 species are distri¬ 
buted, upwards of 20 are not yet recorded in systematic works 
as known in British Eocene Strata. With a view of making 
some of the minute shells in this collection instructive to 
general visitors, a series of magnified figures, of the whole 
of the small species, is in the course of preparation by 
Mr. Smith (late a pupil at the School of Design in York), 
under the direction of the Keeper of the Museum, and a plan, 
of mounting the figures and specimens together, has been 
adopted, which effectually protects both from dust or other 
accidents, and at the same time allows the latter to be closely 
examined. A series of these species so mounted is displayed in 
the Museum. 
