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TIEPOKT OF THE 
MUSEUM. 
In all its departments the Museum has been stored with 
new acquisitions, and generally the cases already provided 
have been found sufficient to receive them. The large coUec- 
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tionof Fossil Organic Remains has been improved in apart 
where it was the least complete, by donations of much value 
from the ‘ Transition’ strata of Christiania, collected on the 
spot and presented by the Rev. W. Bilton; and the Council 
have reason to expect ere long some further additions to the 
contemporaneous fossils of the ‘ Silurian region,’ which may 
now be advantageously studied in Mr. Murchison's splendid 
volumes. In this department of natural science it has not 
been judged necessary to incur any but the most trifling ex¬ 
penses. 
In Zoology, the additions to the collection have been 
considerable, and the Council record with pleasure the com¬ 
pletion of measures of great importance for the advancement 
of this popular and instructive part of the Museum. 
The new cases for the reception of the Mammalia have 
been erected; the specimens are in their places, and, as far 
at time has allowed, their classification and nomenclature have 
been completed. The interior fitting of these cases has not been 
expensive, and tbe arrangement adopted is such as to allow 
of considerable augmentation with little trouble and no con¬ 
fusion ; while it appears equally suited for studious contempla¬ 
tion and popular enjoyment, to combine which objects appears 
to the Council the true end and aim of a public collection. 
No better proof that these objects are rightly appreciated 
by the members can be required than the large and general 
