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as Lanins sphenocercus, L. fuse at us, L. Dodsoni, P nonops polio- 
cephalus (brought from Central Africa by the late Emin Pasha), 
&c. There are some 400 specimens in all. 
Nothing of moment has been added to the Yorkshire collec¬ 
tion during the year. 
Library. —The Library has received numerous accessions 
during the past year, chiefly through the kindness of various 
scientific societies. The Trustees of the British Museum 
continue their generous system of sending works on Natural 
History to this Museum as they are issued. We have again 
to record the presentation of a work issued by the Geological 
Society to this Society’s Library. It would seem that our 
Government has at length awakened to the desirability of 
letting public institutions benefit by the result of work executed 
at public cost. If so, we may congratulate the permanent 
officials of the Government and ourselves. Regretfully we 
have to point out the rapidly diminishing space left for acquisi¬ 
tions to the Library. A very few years will see the room 
exhausted. 
Mineralogy. —The collections are in good order. The 
only additions during the past year, are a specimen of Calcite 
presented by Mr. Milburn, and a specimen of Coal from West- 
port, New Zealand, presented by Mr. Machell. 
Meteorology. — Statistics of Station /—Longitude 1 5 W.; 
Latitude 53 57’ N. ; height above mean sea level 56 feet. 
Temperature in 1904 had the same range as in 1903. the 
average mean temperature being again higher by ’5 1 '*, viz., 
48*5 as against 48°. The lowest temperature was recorded 
on Dec. 23rd, when the absolute minimum thermometer read 
I9°L., whilst the highest reading, So L., was observed on three 
days, viz., July 11, Aug. 29-30. 
The spring of the year was cold and wet, even more so than 
1902, and the effect upon the general health of the community 
was undoubtedly adverse. Yet from the commencement of 
[une the conditions were on the whole most favourable, and a 
splendid month in October must have helped many to face the 
winter with equanimity. Logs have been rather frequent 
