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REPORT OF THE 
ought to be favourable to every institution which can aid, in 
any degree, the acquisition of its fundamental principles. It 
is, moreover, the opinion of the Council that in addition to 
the acknowledged advantages of consulting the various Col¬ 
lections, the Laboratory and Observatory may be rendered a 
means of valuable instruction, and that it is in the power of 
the Society, at a moderate cost, to give very effectual assist¬ 
ance toward the solution of new problems of the highest in¬ 
terest in Meteorology, such as the registration of the velocity 
as well as the direction of the wind, the direction and incli¬ 
nation as well as the quantity of rain, and the temperature 
of the air at different heights above the ground. For obser- 
vations of this kind York is favourably situated, and by com¬ 
paring the indications of a standard set of instruments here 
with others placed in different parts of the county, much in¬ 
formation interesting in science, if not immediately valuable 
in practical applications, might result. 
The donations to the Geological museum have been nu¬ 
merous, and the Council wish particularly to notice the tertiary 
fossils from the Mokattam range in Egypt, collected by Wm. 
Hatfeild, Esq. ; a series of fossil plants from Bradford, pre¬ 
sented by G. Pollard, Esq. ; and several products? and other 
shells from the limestone of Bredon hills in Leicestershire, the 
gift of the lamented Lady Flora Hastings. Dr. Wake has 
added some splendid specimens from Lyme Begis; and Mr. 
Bower a magnificent tusk of the fossil elephant, curved 
through three-fourths of a spiral, from Cheveley near New¬ 
market. An exchange with the Earl of Enniskillen has en¬ 
abled us nearly to complete the hue skeleton of the Elk. 
Among a few specimens which have been added to the 
Mineralogical Cabinet, is one the gift of Captain Ivanitzky, 
Vivianite in a bivalve shell, from the Crimea. 
