THE COUNCIL. 
In recording this present, the Council may be allowed 
perhaps to add a remark upon the merits of the system which 
this Society has adopted, in appointing several Curators to 
take charge of the several scientific collections. The interest 
which this system creates in promoting the improvement of 
the collections is satisfactorily shewn in the present contri¬ 
bution, in those which have been so liberally advanced to the 
library' and the garden,^ and in the valuable deposit, for 
the Society’s use, of the collection belonging to the Curator 
of comparative anatomy.^ These appointments are likewise 
of essential utility, both in attracting the specific attention 
of particular members to a particular province of science, 
and in lightening the extensive and still extending labours 
of the o^eneral Curator. 
In surveying the lists of donations which are now pre¬ 
sented to the Meeting, it will be apparent that the gifts 
bestowed on every department of the Museum during the 
past year, have been more than ever valuable and abun¬ 
dant. 
Among the most important additions to the Geological 
COLLECTION, are those which illustrate the organic remains 
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contained in the beds belonging to the series of carhoniferous 
and transition limestones. The transition fossils from Nor¬ 
way, ^ together with those from Herefordshire,^ in which is 
included the radius of a Batistes; the numerous specimens 
collected from the Mountain Limestone series of Northum- 
* By Eugtachius Strickland, Esq. ^ By the Rev. W. Hincks, ^ J. Atkinson, Esq. 
^ Presented by the Countess of Denbigh. ^ By the Rev. T. Lewis. 
