THE COUNCIL. 
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and to Dr. Buckland, for a very interesting donation, con¬ 
sisting of some iiair of the celebrated Siberian Mammoth, 
set in fossil ivory remarkably unimpaired by the lapse of 
ages ;* to which may be added a more recent specimen, 
presented by Lord Milton, of the cranium and horns of an 
extinct species of Bos, which formerly inhabited this island. 
Lastly, the extensive collection of rock-specimens from 
Scotland, with which the Society was favoured by Mr. 
Witbam, has been still further enlarged by him; and a 
complete geognostic series from Freyberg, illustrative of the 
Wernerian system, as described in a memoir drawn up at 
the Royal Saxon Depository of Minerals, has been contributed 
by Mr. Heuland. 
The accustomed liberality of this distinguished promoter 
of miueralogical science, has also been shown in a munificent 
present of two hundred valuable varieties of Minerals to the 
Society’s collection, which has been further augmented to 
about the same amount, by two donations of American and 
Vesuvian specimens from Mr. Wortley and Mr. Cooke. 
In Recent Zoology, the flexible Corallines collected on the 
Scarborough coast by Mr. Bean, furnish interesting materials 
* This ivory was worked from part of a tusk found in clay near Bridlington, and 
presented to Ur. Buckland by the Council. The silver rim of the box bears the 
following inscription: 
FLOCCVM. HVNC. DE. PELLE. PRIMAEVI. ELEPH ANTIS. VSQVE. A. DILVVIO. IN 
GLACIE. SIBERICA. CONSTRICT!. EBORE. COAETANEO. PROPE. BRIDLINGTON. 
EFFOSSO. MVNIVIT. ET. INTER. RARIORA. SOC1ET. PHILOS. EBORAC. REPOSVJT. 
GVL. BVCKLAND. EIVSDEM. SODALIS. HONORARIVS. SOC. GEOL, BOND. FRAESES. 
MIN. ET. GEOL. APVD. OXON, PROFESSOR. ET. AEDIS. XTI. CANONICVS. 
A. D. M. DCCC. XXV. 
