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REPORT OF 
The most considerable Mineralogical donations of the 
year have been two large contributions, consisting together 
of one hundred and eighty six specimens, from a member ^ 
to whom the Society’s Museum has been under repeated 
oblio'ations,—a meteoric stone which fell at Juvenas in 
France, in June 1821,^ given to the donor by M. Alex, 
de Humboldt, entire, and completely coated with the glaze 
peculiar to these singular substances,—-a new ore of lead 
from Cumberland,^—and an undescribed mineral which 
came among several silver ores from Columbia,^ and which 
appears from the analysis to which it has been subjected, to 
be a compound of mercury, sulphur, and selenium. Speci¬ 
mens also which have been presented, ^ of laminated blende 
forming septa in the argillaceous nodules of several beds 
in the oolitic series, are of interest as shewing a mineralogical 
analogy between these and the lias strata, in the fossils of 
which the presence of this mineral has before been noticed. 
Among the Zoological acquisitions, besides the collec¬ 
tion of Insects already noticed, there have been added many 
interesting specimens of Fishes, Reptiles and Birds. With 
respect to the Society’s collection of British Birds, it may 
be worth while to observe that it is principally deficient 
in the most common kinds ; and the Curator has reported 
this deficiency in the hope that it may speedily be supplied 
by the friends of the Institution. The Council would also 
call the attention of the meeting to a donation® of the 
^ \V. Danby, Esq. ® Presented by the Rev. W. Vernon. ^By Sir J.V.B. Johnstone, 
Bart. Presented by Thomas Richardson, Esq. analysed by the Rev. W. Vernon. 
^ By the Rev. W. Vernon, ® By E. Strickland, Esq. 
