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REPORT. 
the colouring is founded. The Council cannot forbear from 
expressing a strong hope, that this work will be patronized 
by liberal subscriptions, and afford the author some remunera¬ 
tion for a long life of successful, but ill rewarded, labour in 
the service of science. 
The Literary and Philosophical Society of Whitby having 
presented an interesting specimen of the paddle-bones of the 
Plesiosaurus, the Council have sent in return a cast of the 
lower jaw of that animal ; and it is their intention to have a 
series of casts made from the best fossil specimens in the 
Museum, for the purpose of exchange with other Institu¬ 
tions. An acknowledgment has been received from the 
Asiatic Society, of the series of Yorkshire fossils not long 
since sent to Calcutta ; and, at the request of a distinguished 
scientific foreigner, 1 who visited the Institution in the last 
summer, a similar series has been forwarded to the Museum of 
\ 
Natural History at Geneva. Count Sternberg has communi¬ 
cated to the Society, the names which he proposes to assign 
to the fossil plants which the Council had sent to the Museum 
at Prague ; and adds, as the result of his examination of 
them, that “the inferior oolite of Saltwick 2 includes genera of 
plants belonging both to the tertiary and secondary flcetz 
formations; and that it may be consequently considered as on 
the line of transition of two epochs of vegetation, either of 
them, however, more ancient than the lignites, where the 
dicotyledonous plants begin to be observed.” 3 
1 Professor de la Rive. 2 Near "Whitby. 
8 Remains of dicotyledonous plants occur in the lias ; but no specimens of 
this kind were among those transmitted to Count Sternberg, which were from 
intermediate beds between the oolite and lias. 
