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York. The Hon. Curator hopes to make some progress in re¬ 
labelling the Yorkshire fossils during the year. 
Mineralogy. —Very few alteration or additions have been 
made in the Department of Mineralogy during the past year. 
A small number of minerals have been incorporated in the 
collection, which is now in a fair way towards completion. 
Indeed, there is very little left to be done in this Department 
beyond the replacement, as opportunities occur, of inferior 
specimens for better ones. It might also be advisable to form 
small subsidiary collections for the purpose of illustrating 
special features in minerals. 
Comparative Anatomy. —The only addition made to this 
Department during the past year consists of the bones of a 
Rhinoceros shot in Burmah. This skeleton is a very important 
addition not only zoologically—from the fact that the animal 
is the sole representative of Natural Order — but also 
geologically. Rhinoceros bones have been discovered in 
various parts of Yorkshire, proving that the animal lived in 
our county up to geologically recent times. It was therefore 
considered so advisable to have a recent specimen—especially 
a sound one ol known history—for comparison with semi-fossil 
remains, that the opportunity of acquiring one at a moderate 
price was gladly taken. 
Ornithology. —The Honorary Curator reports that the 
collections in this Department are in a satisfactory condition, 
and that nothing of special note has been added. 
Entomology.— This Department has suffered a severe loss 
by the death of the Hon. Curator, Mr. G. C. Dennis, who 
greatly improved the collections by his work. At the time of 
his death he was engaged in making a representative collection 
of Trichoptera for the Museum. His legacy of a valuable 
Cabinet of Lepidoptera, containing many larvae, is another 
instance of his good will to the Society. 
Library. —The chief feature of this Department is its rapid 
and continuous growth—a characteristic which we could view 
with more un-mixed satisfaction if it was accompanied by a 
proportionate increase in the space at our disposal. As it is, 
