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REPORT. 
tion they feel, in having been the means of inducing this able 
and experienced geologist, to resume his examination of the 
strata of Yorkshire ; the result of which has been, a further 
developement of the intricate geological arrangement of the 
eastern part of the county, and the identification of several 
distinct beds in the Oolitic series, not before discriminated, 
with those which are known in the southern course of the 
strata. Mr. Smith is engaged in introducing these new 
observations and corrections into his Geological Map of 
Yorkshire ; and he entertains also an intention of publishing 
the documents on which the colouring of that map is founded, 
the valuable fruits of many years of laborious investigation. 
The Council, while they have paid especial attention to 
objects thus near at home, have not been inattentive to the 
principle of extending, where occasion has offered, the sphere 
of the Society’s operations. They have embraced an oppor¬ 
tunity of sending a collection of duplicate fossils to the 
Asiatic Society at Calcutta; and they are at present engaged 
in selecting specimens from the Yorkshire Oolitic coal field, 
at the request of Professor Buckland, for the author of the 
Flora der Vorwelt, Count Sternberg, to be placed in the 
Public Museum under his superintendence at Prague. 
Upon the same principle of making the Society’s acqui¬ 
sitions as subservient as possible to the general interests of 
science, the Council have lent to Professor Buckland some 
rare specimens, of which he wished to have drawings made 
for the use of himself and Mr. Conybeare ; and they have 
promised to send some duplicates to the Museum at Oxford, 
