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REPORT OF 
of study,'in a department of natural history which has been 
hitherto but little explored ; and the entomological donation 
lately presented by the author of the Dendrologia Britan- 
nica,* including nearly two thousand British specimens, 
many of which are rare, lias a peculiar value from the circum¬ 
stance of the Insects having been procured within the county 
of York, 
The Council have only further to remark on the subject of 
donations, that the Library has received contributions to the 
amount of eighty volumes, and that many additions have 
been made to the cabinet of Coins. 
« 
The Purchases which have been effected out of the income 
of the last year, have been considerable. Several favourable 
opportunities have occurred of enriching the Museum ; and 
the Council, availing themselves of advantages not likely to 
recur, have expended about a hundred pounds, in the 
acquisition chiefly of foreign minerals ; among these, the 
specimens from North America, selected for the Society by 
the obliging care of a resident Mineralogist, t and accom¬ 
panied by an instructive catalogue, form, with Mr. Wortley’s 
donation, a complete collection of what has been hitherto 
discovered in the United States. The cabinet of Coins also, 
hicli was recently purchased, partly by subscription and 
pertly out of the Society’s funds, has added an extraordinary 
charge of fifty pounds to the expenses of the year. 
3nt these demands, together with those incurred for the 
•chase of Books and Cases, for Printing, (the amount of 
P. W. Watson, Esq. F.L.S. 
t Wm. Meade, M.D. of Philadelphia. 
