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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
tlemen are appointed to act as Honorary Curators and Honorary Librarian for 
the current year:—Library, Richard Higgs; Antiquities and Works of Art, 
Rev. J. G. Brock ; Conchology, J. G. Jeffries ; Entomology and Botany, J.W. G. 
Gutch ; Geology, W. E. Logan; Mineralogy, D. Nicol; Zoology, L. L. Dill- 
wyn ; Laboratory and Apparatus, R. W. Byers. 
The proposal for the erection of a building by shares, for the purposes of the 
Institution, has met with great success; the necessary funds have been raised, 
and a plan adopted, complete in every anterior arrangement, and possessed of an 
external character which will render the building at once a credit to the Society 
and an ornament to the town. The building is to include a library, museum, 
and lecture-room; and it is proposed by the Committee.,' at the suggestion of 
Professor Airy, that arrangements should be made for the erection of a transit 
instrument, which would prove of great benefit to the port, in the scientific as 
well as commercial advantage ’which it would confer. The report is exceedingly 
well-arranged, and contains a variety of useful information on the mercantile and 
medical statistics of the town and neighbourhood, and a list of the Society’s 
desiderata in British birds, besides notices of the lectures and papers delivered 
before the Society. There is a valuable meteorological journal appended to the 
report by Mr. J. W. G. Gutch, and a tide table, obtained by the use of a self¬ 
registering guage, erected by the assistance of the trustees of the harbour, and 
under the direction of Mr. Bunt, of Bristol, who has for some years past been 
actively engaged in investigating the phenomena of the tides. 
The museum of the Society has received a considerable accession during the 
past year, among which we notice a very valuable collection of curiosities obtained 
during Capt. Ross’s visit to the Arctic regions, presented by Lady Mary Cole, 
of Lanely, and a collection of between 300 and 400 specimens of colonial produce, 
presented by Mr. F. Taylor, of Liverpool. S. L. Dillwyn, Esq., has presented 
several manuscript works on the Natural History of the neighbourhood, one 
particularly on Botany, which will be of great assistance to any strangers 
visiting the town. The same liberal and talented gentleman has printed at his 
own expense a list of the Coleoptera occurring round Swansea, which must prove 
of great use to any entomologist willing to assist the Society in making exchanges 
of specimens. 
Several fossil Sigillaria have been discovered in Cwm Llech Vale of Swansea, 
by Mr Logan, of which two specimens have been left in situ , an excellent 
engraving of which accompanies the report. Two gigantic specimens which have 
been extracted will be placed in the new building when it is completed. 
Some curious impressions in Clay of the feet of Deer and cattle have been 
presented to the Museum. They were cut out of an alluvial deposit of hard 
blue Clay, under a thin stratum of peaty matter, overlaid by about twenty-three 
