REPORT. 
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The inventories or lists of donations laid before these 
meetings, can only imperfectly represent the value of the 
contributions described in them. Hereafter, it may be hoped 
that, by publishing a Catalogue raisonne of what it pos¬ 
sesses, the Society may at once give a more adequate account 
of its obligations, and render an important service to science. 
At present, a brief survey of the most material features in 
the contributions of the last year, may not be unacceptable 
to the Meeting. 
Among the Geological donations, is included a large 
accession of the remains of antediluvian quadrupeds from the 
coast of Norfolk, and from the caves at Banwell and Tor-Bay. 
Those from Tor-Bay were accompanied by an interesting 
communication from the donor, 1 who, having placed a similar 
collection in the hands of M. Cuvier, had obtained his opinion 
respecting them. That eminent naturalist found one of the 
specimens, a cast of which is in the Society’s Museum, to be 
the canine tooth of that species of Bear, which he has named 
Ursus cultridens; an animal of which no remains had 
been previously known, except a specimen of an entire skull, 
found in the Yal d’Arno, and deposited in the Museum at 
Florence. The similarity of fracture which prevails in the 
bones found in this cave, is noticed by Mr. M‘Enery; and the 
marks of teeth upon them are particularly remarked by M. 
Cuvier, who states that these may be more distinctly traced 
in the English specimens, than in any other which he has 
seen. 
1 The Rev. John M‘Enery. 
