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REPOUT OF 
and his valuable donation of Siberian and Ouralian Minerals, 
joined to the fmQ Metereolite from L’Aigle, given by Mr. Los- 
combe, and several select specimens from Mr. Danby, the 
Lev. Stephen Creyke, Dr. Wasse, Mrs. Thorpe, and others, 
has left few very obvious chasms in the series of mineral 
substances. 
In Zoology, a very instructive donation has been received 
from the Lev. Christopher Sykes, in the perfect skeleton, 28 
feet long, of Balcsna rostrata^ which was drifted to the coast 
of Holderness in 1828, and then minutely examined and care¬ 
fully prepared for the Museum by the donor and Mr. Phillips. 
The collection of Birds, enriched with beautiful East Indian 
specimens through the attention of Dr. Wake, i and with 
Brazilian and other foreign kinds by Lady Howden, Mr. 
White, and Mr. Marshall, is likewise indebted for several 
interesting British Birds to other Members of the Society. 
Every department of Zoological science has received some 
useful illustrations, and through the continued benefactions of 
Mr. Danby, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. White, the series of 
shells, insects, and corals, have been made much more in¬ 
structive. 
The Council must again call the attention of the Society to 
the ingenious and useful labours of one of the Members, who 
has not only adorned the Museum by a further deposit of the 
skeletons of Birds, which afford such striking evidence of well- 
directed scientific zeal; but has, moreover, at his own cost, 
furnished the temporary cases for exhibiting them. To illus¬ 
trate the various and beautiful adaptations of the bony struc¬ 
ture of birds by complete skeletons of the most characteristic 
I Presented by Dr, Wake, on behalf of tlie donors, Captain Murray, 
and Ensign Wake, 
