COUNCIL FOK 1891. 
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Entomology. —The Honorary Curator reports that the Allis 
Collection is in good order. 
The exotic Lepidoptera however, need revision, and many 
specimens will have to be weeded out. 
The Department has received an important addition in the 
shape of a rich Cabinet of British Coleoptera presented to the 
Society by the E-ev. W. C. Hey, M.A. This excellent 
Collection was commenced by the Kev. S. Hey, Yicar of 
Ockbrook, and continued by his son, the late Archdeacon Hey. 
Further additions were made to it by the Kev. W. C. Hey. 
It is particularly rich in those fine species which, OAving to the 
drainage of fens and cutting down of forests, have become 
almost or Avholiy extinct. The Collection of British 
Hydradephaga is perhaps not surpassed, and that of (leodephaga 
is hardly inferior. 
This donation constitutes the most important addition made 
to this Department since the acquisition of the Allis Collection, 
and it raises our Coleoptera to the same pitch of excellence that 
the latter Collection did in the case of the Lepidoptera. 
Ornithology. —There is nothing special to report in this 
Department. The work of renewing the British Bird Collection 
has however been pushed forward and many new cases now 
adorn the Callerv. 
CoNCHOLOGY. —Neither the British nor Greneral Collections 
have received any addition of importance during the past year. 
The gaps which still disfigure the collections are of a kind only 
likely to be filled by purchase. In case however this Keport 
should fall under the eye of any person able and Avilling to 
supply some of our desiderata, it may be well to mention that 
we are particularly deficient in the land species of the West 
Indies and the Arctic Marine. 
The re-discovery in Yorkshire of a scarce fresh-water 
snail, Limncea glufinom, deserves recording. Mr. Bean, the 
well-known Scarborough Conchologist, took tlie shell in the 
neighbourhood very many years ago, but it has for long been 
supposed to be lost to Yorkshire. It has, however, been quite 
lately taken in some numbers in a ditch near Hull. 
