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Snakes, from Australia. A competent person has been employed 
to set up the numerous skins of Foreign Birds in the possession of 
the Society, previous to a complete new arrangement of the whole. 
The additions to the collection of Comparative Osteology consist 
of twenty-nine skeletons of Foreign Mammalia, presented by Mr. 
Allis, the Curator; which, added to the valuable series previously 
in the possession of the Society, will make this collection, under the 
new arrangement, one of the most interesting in the Museum. 
The Curator of British Botany has completed the Classification 
of the Herbarium, commenced by his precedessor, the Rev. W. 
Hincks, so far as regards the flowering Plants, and is proceeding 
with the Ferns. This collection is now in admirable order, and 
from the mode of its arrangement may be at any time convenientlv 
referred to. 
In return for some assistance in his enquiries relating to the 
Saxon Coinage, obtained from the cabinet of the Society by Mr. 
D. H. Haigh, of Leeds, that gentleman has presented to the 
Society upwards of one hundred and twenty Silver Coins, com¬ 
prising several of the Visigoth Kings, some of the Saxon period, 
and many belonging to the English Series. More than one hundred 
and fifty English Coins, chiefly modern, in Gold, Silver, and Copper, 
were likewise presented by the late Dr. Beckwith, not long before 
his death; and some beautiful impressions of Foreign Seals have 
been received from Edward Hailstone, Esq., of Bradford. Mr. R. 
Ready, of Leeds, having been allowed the use of the Matrices of 
the Ancient Seals in the possession of the Society, has in return 
presented a considerable number of casts of other Seals, principally 
connected with religious and other institutions of Yorkshire. 
The Northumbrian Stycas mentioned in the last Report as part 
of a hoard recently discovered in York, have been purchased, partly 
by the proceeds of three Lectures on the state of York under the 
Anglo-Saxons, delivered by the Curator of Antiquities in the 
Theatre of the Museum, and partly by voluntary Subscriptions ; and 
they now form an interesting and very instructive portion of the 
Cabinet of Coins belonging to the Society. 
The Roman and other Antiquities have been for the most part 
removed to the room now appropriated for them, and are at present 
under arrangement by the Curator. 
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