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REPOPcT OF THE 
apparatus liaviug been found insufficient for tlie purpose, and 
not perfectly secure. 
The Council have had much pleasure in observiiip’ the steadily 
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increasing attraction which the ?>Iuseum and Gardens have 
presented to the public. This increase has manifested itself 
in a laro’ely aiminented income from the sale of tickets, 
notwithstandino; the o’reat additional facilities of admission 
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g]’anted by the Council to thousands of yisitors, vrho have 
been attracted to the city throuo’h the accommodation afford- 
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ed to them by the Railway Companies. 
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Extr acts from the Report of 
GEOLOGY. 
Reference vras made in the Report of last year to the desi¬ 
rableness of displaying in the Museum a duplicate series of 
Yorkshire Fossils, ayranged in the order of their natural 
affinities. This plan, ivliich originated with Professor Phillips, 
has within the last six months been partly carried into execu¬ 
tion. Seyeral hundred species of fossils, principally obtained 
from the coast, and from the Oolite quarries of Malton and 
Pickering, are now exhibited in tlie raised central case of the 
Geoloo’ical Room, which has been found admirably adapted for 
the purpose. The classification adopted is the same as that 
followed by Professor Phillips in his synoptical table of the 
organic remains of \ orkshire. Great care has been taken in 
the selection of the most perfect fossils that could be pro¬ 
cured, and, wheiieyer practicable, the specimens are mounted on 
tablets labelled with the name under which each species is 
described, its locality and stratigraphical position, and a re¬ 
ference to the work in which a figure or description is to be 
found. It is hoped that this series may ultimately include 
characteristic specimens of all tlie procurable published and 
up.published inyertebral fossils of T orkshire. 
