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REPORT OF THE 
lication of these plates, together with the descriptive memoirs to 
he contrihuted by the editor, Mr. Charlesworth, must tend to 
promote that interest which the pen and pencil of Professor 
Phillips have excited in the extinct fauna of our district, the 
Council have thought the design well worthy of encourage¬ 
ment. 
The Keeper of the Museum has devoted a considerable portion 
of his time to increasing and perfecting the collection of British 
Conchology, which has, during the past year, been more than ' 
doubled in extent, and the original collection mostly replaced by 
better specimens. The whole is distinctly labelled, and advan¬ 
tageously displayed. 
The additions which this collection has received have involved 
no expense to the Society, having been obtained almost entirely 
by Mr. Charles worth in exchange for specimens of Tertiary 
fossils from his private collection, which he liberally appropriated 
to this purpos^e. The most valuable shell contained in the col¬ 
lection (Pleurotoma teres, Forbes) was found by the Secretary 
on the coast near Kedcar, during the last summer, and pre¬ 
sented by him to the Museum. Mr. Charlesworth hopes, 
through his extensive correspondence with the principal culti¬ 
vators of British Conchology, ultimately to make this collection 
one of the most complete extant. 
Through the liberality of Mr. Woodward, Professor of Natural 
History in the Cirencester Koyal Agricultural College, the 
Foreign Conchological Collection has been enriched by a speci¬ 
men of very remarkable interest, namely, an Argonaut-shell 
exhibiting a very peculiar formation. This Mr. Charlesworth 
explains on the supposition that the spire of the shell, having 
been broken off during the life of the animal, has been replaced 
by a small shell of the same species, which the Argonaut has 
fixed in a reversed position, and united to the broken edges of 
its habitation by the secretion of shelly matter. 
In Ornithology, an interesting addition has been made to the 
General Collection by the purchase of a large series of Birds, 
sent direct to this city from Malacca; but by far the most 
important accession which this department of the Museum 
