182 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Mr. Worth has favoured me with the following remarks on the 
geological collection : 
‘‘The whole of the collections of fossils have been examined 
and sorted, duplicates set on one side in drawers specially appro- 
priated to them, and the chief portion of the local fossils arranged 
in the glass-cases on the new drawers, so as to be open to inspection. 
The Society is to be congratulated on possessing a very valuable 
representative collection of local fossils, in some respects of peculiar 
interest, embracing specimens collected many years since, and 
which now would be quite unattainable. In the glass-case will be 
found suites of the Devonian fossils, not only of this locality, but 
from various parts of Devon and Cornwall, the Middle Devonian 
series, to which the Plymouth fossils belong, being particularly well 
represented. There is hkewise a good collection of the Budleigh 
Salterton fossils, presented by Mr. Vicary, F.c.s., and an excellent 
set of the Carboniferous fossils of North Devon, largely added to 
during the present year by a present from Mr. Townshend Hall, F.a.s. 
Of the ordinary Liassic fossils of the eastern borders of the county 
there is a good typical collection, and also of the Cretaceous fossils 
of Haldon and Blackdown, given by Mr. Vicary. The collections 
illustrating the ossiferous caverns of the county are large and valu- 
able ; and although the Oreston caves are represented more largely 
than importantly, the Hoe fissures and Yealmpton caves are fully 
illustrated, and there are also several of the original specimens 
found in Kent’s Hole by Mr. McEnery and Mr. Northmore. In 
these, as in many other instances, the value of the specimens is 
enhanced by the fact that they were given to the Institution by 
the pioneers in the work of Devonian geology, including, in addi- 
tion to those mentioned, the Rev. R. Hennah, Mr. J. Prideaux, 
Mr. Bellamy, Col. Harding, Mr. S. R. Pattison, &c. The general 
collections of fossils are classified in drawers. The divisions best 
represented are the Silurian, Carboniferous, and Cretaceous. There 
are a few Oolitic and Tertiary fossils, and some interesting foreign 
specimens ; but a good deal would require to be done to make this 
part of the collection what it should be. The local fossils are in 
great part mounted, and many of them are named; but here also 
much work remains to be done. It is however a matter of con- 
siderable gratification that some progress has been already made, 
and that your large collection is no longer scattered about in 
drawers, unregarded and unknown, but is, if imperfectly, still in 
