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brought from Egypt 1 and from America, 2 have furnished 
instructive testimonies to the theory of general formations. 
The British strata have been further illustrated by some 
beautiful specimens of crinoidal remains from Gloucester¬ 
shire, 3 and of fossil fishes from Swanwich 4 and Barrow. 3 A 
very interesting collection, also, of the fossil fishes discovered 
in Caithness by Professor Sedgwick and Mr. Murchison, has 
been received from an honorary member 6 whose bountiful 
contributions have been acknowledged in every report ; and 
a suite of fossils from Sutherland, presented by Mr. Murchison 
himself, lias enabled the Keeper of the Museum to institute 
a comparison with the fossils of the corresponding strata on 
the Yorkshire coast, which proves a still closer conformity 
than had been before observed. 
The collections of the Institution have supplied many 
valuable materials to the work which this meritorious officer 
of the Society is now publishing, on the Geology of the 
Eastern part of this County, 7 a work which, the Council 
have reason to hope, will complete whatever may have been 
left wanting by the valuable labours of his predecessors in the 
same field. The richest part of the Museum is, as it ought 
to be, that which contains the Yorkshire specimens ; and it 
1 By J. S, Crompton, Esq. 2 By S. Stapylton, Esq. 
3 By the Rev, R. Halifax. 4 By Miss Atkinson. 5 By the Rev. T. King. 
6 Henry Witham, Esq. F.G.S. 
7 “ Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire ; or a Description of the Strata 
aDd Organic Remains of the Yorkshire Coast, accompanied by a Map, Sections, 
and numerous Plates of fossil plants and animals ; by John Phillips, F.G.S,”— 
1 vol. 4to. 
