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Esq., have been received various teeth and bones from the 
Kirkdale Cave, w^hich will he very acceptable to the Society, 
as this celebrated cave has long ceased to furnish specimens to 
the palaeontologist. Mr. Wood, of Richmond, has presented 
additional examples of the remarkable Encrinite discovered by 
him in the Mountain Limestone of that district.* An eminent 
foreign naturalist, M. de Koninck, by whom it has been 
described and figured, regards it as constituting a new genus, 
for which he proposes the name Woodocrinus. From Mr. Wood 
the Society has also received in exchange a remarkable fossil 
fish, probably of an undescribed species, from the Magnesian 
limestone of Ferry Hill. To Mr. Leckenby, of Scarborough, 
the Society is indebted for a beautiful specimen of the rare 
fossil fern, Orthopteris Beanii, from the oolitic shale of 
Gristhorpe ; to Mr. Bainbridge, junior, for a semi-fossil bone 
of a large whale from the neighbourhood of Selby; and from 
the Rev. Geo. Row it has received in exchange a new species 
of Trigonia from the oolitic iron-stone of Marsk, a locality 
which promises to yield other novelties to the collector. 
The Zoological Department has been enriched by a donation 
from Win. Hewitson, Esq., of a beautiful and valuable collec¬ 
tion of foreign butterflies, all named and in high preservation. 
John Lister, Esq., of Doncaster, has presented, through 
Mr. O. A. Moore, a remarkable specimen of the gigantic 
sponge (Raphiopliora patera) commonly called Neptune’s 
Cup.” This sponge fills an important gap in the Society’s 
collections, as it is a recent species, presenting important points 
of agreement with some of the fossil sponges of Flamborough 
contained in the Museum. From W. C. Warren, Esq., of 
Dublin, the Society has received several rare British marine 
shells ; from Professor Melville, of Queen’s College, Galway, 
fine examples of Caryophyllia Smithii, and from Mr. James 
Backhouse, the rare and lately discovered British shell Limnaea 
Burnetti. 
It has long been a subject of regret with the Council that 
the visitor to the Natural History Department of the Museum, 
* See Report for 1S''^2. 
