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Society, which complete the analogy presumed between these 
and the corresponding Strata in other parts of England, 
and include also some undescribed varieties. Of similar 
Geological interest are the peculiar shells discovered by an 
Honorary Member* in a bed above the Alum-shale, which 
had not been previously distinguished. The Society’s 
collection of fossil plants from the Coal-field of the West- 
Riding, has been greatly improved by a donation of speci¬ 
mens from the author of the “ Antediluvian Phytology 
and a Sandstone cast of Syringodendron, between five and six 
feet in height and thirty inches in diameter, removed from the 
quarry at Altofts under the direction of the donor | and the 
Officers of the Society, stands in the Museum, in the position in 
which it was found, a gigantic monument of ancient vegetation. 
The list of Organic Fossils, strictly termed Antediluvian, has 
also been farther augmented by numerous remains of the 
Elephant, from the South-eastern coast of Yorkshire. 
Of the Geological contributions from more distant parts, 
there are several which deserve particular notice. Among 
these are the various Fossils found by one of the recently 
elected members § of the Society, in the shale accompanying 
the mountain limestone in Northumberland ; and the speci¬ 
mens from Sutherland, of the strata in which the Brora 
coal is worked, identical, in the opinion of the donor || and Dr. 
Buckland, with those which form the North-eastern moorlands 
of this County. To the Secretary of the Geological Society, 
the Museum has been further indebted, for a numerous suite 
of specimens, from the different beds of the basin of Paris ; 
* Mr. Bean, of Scarborough. + E. T. Artis, Esq, F.G.S. 
X The Rev. S. Sharp, Yicar of Wakefield. 
§ The Rev. C. Y. Vernon. j| C. Lyell, Esq. Sec. G. S. 
