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REPORT. 
Three hundred rock specimens from the Harz, accom¬ 
panied by a German catalogue, which has been translated by 
one of the members of the Society, 1 constitute the fourth 
liberal donation for which the Museum is indebted to Mr. 
Heiiland; and one hundred and fifty species of corallines 
and shells, from the ccilcaire grossier of Grignon, have been 
presented to the foreign collection by Mr. Tasburgh. 
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Several interesting specimens have been added 2 to those 
formerly sent from the mountain limestone of Northumber¬ 
land, which show that some of the generalizations in which 
geologists have indulged, respecting the distribution of fossils; 
are premature. This addition includes, besides patellae and 
echinal spines, a saurian vertebra, and an impression of a 
fern analogous to those which occur in the coal-measures. 
The donor has communicated his observations on the rocks 
from which these fossils are derived; and, in correction of a 
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common geological error, states that coal of a good quality, 
and in great abundance, occurs in the lower part of the 
limestone series. 
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Numerous shells have been contributed from the crag of 
Norfolk and Suffolk, 3 and some beautiful crinoidal fossils 
from the oolite of Gloucestershire. 4 There has also been 
placed in the Society’s cabinets a specimen of the head of the 
1 The Rev. J. Kenrick. 2 By the Rev. C. V. Vernon. 
3 By the Rev. T. H. Croft and Mr. Sparshall, 4 By the Countess of Denbigh. 
