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REPORT. 
research which it has awakened ; and they find no reason 
to regret the rule which they have laid down to themselves, 
of relying, for the augmentation of the Geological part of the 
Museum, chiefly on the individual exertions of the Members 
of the Society, and the liberality of those who are willing to 
contribute to its objects. 
To foreign Geology this principle has not been thought 
equally applicable ; and the Council had no hesitation in 
availing itself of an offer, made through the intervention 
of one of the honorary Members of the Society,* by his 
Excellency Baron Yon Struve, to purchase, at Brunswick, a 
very instructive series of specimens from the Mountains of 
the Harz, and from the Volcanic and Trap districts of 
Germany, Iceland, and the Azores. 
In addition to what has been thus acquired by donation 
and purchase, there has lately been placed as a deposit in 
the cabinets of the Society, the private collection of 
Comparative Anatomy, belonging to the Curator t of that 
department ; a collection rendered peculiarly interesting by 
the illustration it affords of those fossil remains of ante¬ 
diluvian animals, which occupy the most prominent place 
in the Society’s Museum. 
The space necessarily occupied by such an accumulation 
of specimens as has thus accrued from various sources, and 
* Thomas Meade, esq. cf Chatley, near Bath. 
+ James Atkinson, esq. York. 
