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the Calcareous Grit, near Pickering, remarkable for having one 
less than the usual number of rays. From the same source 
several interesting additions have also been made to the 
Bridlington Fossils. 
In the Ornithological department, the Council are glad to 
notice the near completion of the re-arrangement of the general 
collection, commenced during the year 1848, according to the 
plan noticed in the last report. The following donations 
to the collection of British Birds are worthy of particular 
remark. A beautiful Bustard, (Otis Me Queenii, Gray,) shot in 
Lincolnshire, and the only instance of the occurrence of the 
species in Europe, has been presented to the Society by a joint 
subscription of several of its members, who purchased it for £25, 
and thus secured to the Museum this unique British specimen. 
Likewise a Yorkshire killed specimen of Buffon’s Skua, a rare 
visitant of the British coasts, presented by Mr. W. B. Bead. 
To Henry Telford, Esq., the Society is indebted for a very 
extraordinary bird, killed in Ayrshire, and supposed to be a 
hybrid between the Black and the Bed Grouse. 
The arrangement of <c The Budstone collection of British 
Birds” will shortly be completed in a manner worthy of the 
Society’s appreciation of so valuable a donation. 
In the Conchological Collection may be noticed the addition 
of another series of American Land and Fresh-water Shells, 
presented by Mr. Joseph Clarke, of Cincinnati, to whose warm 
interest in the Society the Council have, on former occasions, 
had to allude. 
F. N. Glossop, Esq., of Isleworth, has forwarded two beautiful 
examples of the rare Carinaria Mediterranean, commonly known 
as the Glassy Nautilus, and Capt. Edward Dixon, B.N., has 
presented specimens of lanthina, from the Coast of Africa, 
accompanied with the Ova and soft parts. An extensive series 
of shells from the Pacific Coasts, containing many valuable 
species, has been likewise received from Adam Crawford, Esq., 
of Bhodes, North Berwick. 
The donations to the Antiquarian department have not been 
very numerous, but some of them are worthy of particular 
remark. For the most valuable additions the Society is 
