nwj J} '* » ■». i'liifij i KVi-f * /. f.ltir ifni il?h jSU: U'r; ANNUAL REPORT MDCCCXXXII. ft ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ^octets ' FOR MDCCCXXXII. PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING FEBRUARY 5th. 1833. YORK: THOMAS WILSON AND SONS, HIGH-OUSEGATE. 1833. ; A? t • y \ A, ■h.jf X. f if j '■' ■ ,(■ >■ rA - '>- i: V' \ y* i./ CONTENT S. PagCo. List of the Trustees, Patrons, Officers, &c. ... v REPORT OF the Council . 1 Treasurer’s Annual Accounts . 12 Scientific Communications . 15 Donations to the Museum . . 19 Donations to the Library . . 25 New Members . 28 Additional Subscriptions to the Building Fund 28. A 2 FORM OF A BEQUEST TO THE SOCIETY. Every person desirous of bequeathing to the Society any sum of Money, Specimens, Books, Instruments, or other Property, is requested to make use of the following form : I give and bequeath to the Trustees^ for the time beings of the Society established at Yorky called The Yorkshire Philosophical Society f for the use of the said Society, the sum of to be paid out of such part of my personal estate, as I may legally charge therewith. [Or here enumerate the effects or property intended to he bequeathed.] And I direct that the receipt of the Treasurer of the said Society for the time being, shall be an effectual discharge to my Executors for the said legacy. TRUSTEES OF THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM, APrOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT. HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE. EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S., F.S.A. LORD GRANTHAM. HON. AND REV. HENRY E. J. HOWARD. FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ. ROBERT DENISON, ESQ. REV. W. VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S. WILLIAM MARSHALL, ESQ. F.G.S. EUSTACHIUS STRICKLAND, ESQ. RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ. WILLIAM WRIGHT, ESQ. V A T RONS THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE. EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F.G.S. VISCOUNT MORPETH. EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S. LORD STOURTON. LORD WHARNCLIFFE. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. PRESIDENT : The Earl Fitz william, F.R.S., F.S.A., &c. &c. VICE-PRESIDENTS : Francis Cholmeley, F.H.S. Jonathan Gray. William Daney. Rev. Charles Wellbeloved. TREASURER: J O NATHAN G ray. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. Vll COUNCIL: Elected 1830 . Rev. William Lund. Elected 1831 ...... Rev. Stephen Creyke. Rev. William Flower, jun. Rev. William Hincks, F.LsS. Jonah Wasse, M.D, Elected 1832 . Rev. D. R. Currer. Rev. John Baines Graham. Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt,F.R.S.,&c. Elected 1833 ...... Thomas Allis. FIenry Robinson. Rev. I. J. D. Preston, F.C.P.S., &c. Baldwin Wake, M.D. SECRETARIES: William Gray, jun. John Phillips, F.G.S. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY: Rev. Henry Atchesgn, F.C.P.S. Vlll OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. CURATORS: Rev. John Graham William Marshall, F.G.S. James Atkinson Thomas Allis ... % Rev. J. B. Graham J Rev.I.J.D. Preston, F.C.P.S. Rev. W. Hincks, F.L.S. ... Rev. C. Wellbeloved Rev. William Lund Geology. Mineralogy. Comparative Anatomy. Ornithology. Entomology. Botany. ANTiaUITIES AND CoiNS. Library. KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM: John Phillips, F.G.S. S U B-C U R A T O R : Henry Baines. REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. The Council cannot lay before the Annual Meeting the Report of the proceedings and state of the Yorkshire Philoso¬ phical Society, during the past year, without reminding the Members that the Institution has now reached the end of the tenth year of its existence ; and offering their congratulations on the satisfactory and increasing success which, during that period, has marked its progress. Founded under very en¬ couraging auspices, and receiving from its commencement the prompt and liberal support of the friends and patrons of science, in almost every part of the county, and even beyond its ex¬ tended limits, the most confident expectations that it would eventually attain to eminence among the scientific institutions of Great Britain were, not unreasonably, formed and cherished. But the most sanguine of its earliest friends, who witnessed its origin in the union of three private collections from the ante¬ diluvian relics of Kirkdale Cave, could scarcely have imagined that, in the space of ten short years, there would be gathered around that small cabinet so great a multitude of rare, costly, and interesting specimens in almost every branch of Natural History, as that which now adorns the ample rooms of the Museum. The retrospect is highly gratifying, not only as furnishing undoubted evidence of the public approbation of the views contemplated by the Society, and of a growing R 2 REPOKT OF attachment to the pursuits of natural science ; but also as exciting and confirming the hope that the Institution will con¬ tinue to be an object of very general and lively interest, and that it will not fail to receive, so long as it shall continue to merit, the patronage that shall carry it through those tem¬ porary difficulties to which all human schemes are un¬ avoidably exposed, and enable it to be as eminently and extensively useful as the most enlightened and benevolent mind can desire. The Council have the satisfaction of announcing that the Committees appointed for promoting special researches in science, as stated in the last Annual Report, have entered on active labours, some of which have already produced valuable results ; and have formed arrangements for farther progress and extensive co-operation. The Donations, though less numerous than in some former years, include many contributions of remarkable interest and value, to almost every department of the Museum ; and several volumes of scientific and antiquarian research, which greatly enrich the growing Library of the Institution. The collection of Fossil Organic Remains has been increased by several acquisitions which derive a peculiar value from the circumstance that they fill up some of those vacancies which must necessarily occur in the illustration of so vast a subject, by the contributions of independeiit observers. One of the most important of tliese specimens, which the discoveries of the year have brought to aid the general deductions of Geology, is the Badges' from the Crag of Suffolk, presented by the Rev. Stephen Croft. The true history and relative date of that remarkable deposit will probably require for some time to come a very diligent examination ; but it must be admitted that the occurrence in it of such an animal as the Badger THE COUNCIL. 3 strongly confirms the inference, already drawn from the cha¬ racter of its imbedded shells, that the Crag must be regarded as the most recent of all the marine tertiary strata in England. Equally important for the history of the more ancient deposits associated with coal, is the Fossil Plant discovered by the Rev. C. V. Harcourt, which, by affording to Mr. Witham the means of determining the internal texture of Lepidodendra, and of establishing a new analogy between these giants of the older time and the humble Lycopodiaceae of the present period, has at once confirmed, by additional data, the inferences of that eminent botanist, Brongniart, and thrown a new light on all that relates to the formation of coal. Always attentive to this interesting subject, the Council have had a particular pleasure in receiving the fine SigillaricB, presented by Lord Milton, from the collieries at Rawmarsh ; and the StigmaricB Lepidodendra^ &c. collected by Mr. Dawson, from the lower coal strata near Halifax. The casts of Fossil Fruits which have been received from the Scarborough Philosophical Society ; the Jet impressed by an Ammonite, from the estate of Lord Feversham ; the un¬ described Fucus, which, with other treasures, have been se¬ lected from the cabinet of the Rev. Christopher Sykes, furnish new and valuable data ; and the Fishes from the magnesian limestone of Durham i ; the Stellerida from the chalk of Norfolk ^ ; Rock Specimens from Teesdale ^ ; and Hip- purites, and other fossils from abroad will all find appro¬ priate places in our comprehensive arrangement. While far distant from this Museum, the Curator of Mineralogy has not been unmindful of his peculiar charge, ' Presented by H. Smales, Esq. " By jNIr. S. Woodward. ^ By Mr. D. Tuke. * By Wm. Marshall, Esq. B 2 4 REPOUT OF and his valuable donation of Siberian and Ouralian Minerals, joined to the fmQ Meter eolite from L’Aigle, given by Mr. Los- combe, and several select specimens from Mr. Danby, the Lev. Stephen Creyke, Dr. Wasse, Mrs. Thorpe, and others, has left few very obvious chasms in the series of mineral substances. In Zoology, a very instructive donation has been received from the Lev. Christopher Sykes, in the perfect skeleton, 28 feet long, of Balcsna rostrata^ which was drifted to the coast of Holderness in 1828, and then minutely examined and care¬ fully prepared for the Museum by the donor and Mr. Phillips. The collection of Birds, enriched with beautiful East Indian specimens through the attention of Dr. Wake, i and with Brazilian and other foreign kinds by Lady Howden, Mr. White, and Mr. Marshall, is likewise indebted for several interesting British Birds to other Members of the Society. Every department of Zoological science has received some useful illustrations, and through the continued benefactions of Mr. Danby, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. White, the series of shells, insects, and corals, have been made much more in¬ structive. The Council must again call the attention of the Society to the ingenious and useful labours of one of the Members, who has not only adorned the Museum by a further deposit of the skeletons of Birds, which afford such striking evidence of well- directed scientific zeal; but has, moreover, at his own cost, furnished the temporary cases for exhibiting them. To illus¬ trate the various and beautiful adaptations of the bony struc¬ ture of birds by complete skeletons of the most characteristic I Presented by Dr, Wake, on behalf of tlie donors, Captain Murray, and Ensign Wake, THE COUNCIL. 5 genera, and to carry this system into the other classes of verti- bral animals, is the aim of this disinterested friend of Natural History. With this example of successful individual exertion before them, knowing also how generally a taste for inquiries into Natural History is excited among the Members, and anticipating from that growing taste a continual accession to the present stores of the organized wonders of creation possessed by the Society, — the Council look forward with anxious expectation to the time when the central Museum may receive its appropriate gallery and cases, and thus the naturalist be satisfied with an adequate arrangement, the contributor of valuable specimens see them properly displayed and turned to good account, and the lovers of nature enjoy the contemplation of all the varied forms of native and exotic life. Although no great addition has been made to the Anti- auARiAN department of the Museum, it has been fortunate enough to receive a small share of some remarkable numismatic treasures which accident has lately brought to light. Mr. J. Brookbank, jun. has presented to the Society four of the silver pennies, discovered near Tutbury ; from Mr. Thompson of Thornton Steward, the Society has received seven of the small brass coins of some of the later emperors, found not long since near a Roman station in Wensleydale ; and Mr. Copsie has added to his former numerous contributions of various kinds, several Saxon stycas, a large collection of which was recently disinterred in Hexham church-yard. To Mr. Christopher Rawson, of Halifax, the Society is indebted for several Tetradrachms of Macedonia and Thrace; a class of coins in which the Curator regrets to observe the cabinet is very delicient. The Garden has received several contributions of plants, and, the Curator of Botany having again liberally devoted to B 3 6 REPORT OF this department the proceeds of his lectures, frames have been constructed to shelter the more tender herbaceous plants during the winter, and thus provide a source of increasing beauty and interest. The Library is indebted to a similar act of generosity, originating with the Rev. Archdeacon Markham, for the addition ofErovv^n’s Conchology, Hooker's Jungermannise, and Knorr's Petrefactenkunde. Mr. Hunter has presented to it his admirable Histories of Hallamshire, and of the Deanery of Doncaster ; and Dr. Pearson has given fifty copies of his Tables for the reduction of astronomical observations. This munificent Patron of Astronomy will contemplate with satisfaction the Observatory which is now rising to receive his instruments and employ his useful tables. The Committee appointed for this object have been scrupulously attentive to the main point of a solid foundation and an im¬ moveable basis for the instruments ; they have made provision for a large transit and a circular instrument, and, by placing the revolving telescope on a separate foundation, believe that they shall at once secure accurate observations for time and position, and allow, on suitable occasions, more popular views of the heavenly phenomena. The Committee to whom the Society confided the duty of inquiring into the Antiquities of Yorkshire, and of collect¬ ing materials for a general topographical history of the county, had the great advantage of being aided in the commencement of their labours, by the learning and experience of the Rev. Joseph Hunter, who kindly furnished them with a most com¬ plete series of queries, embracing every point on which the topographer requires information. These queries the Com¬ mittee have caused to be extensively circulated through the county ; and they have received expressions of cordial appro- THE COUNCIL. i Nation and promises of assistance from many of the resident gentry and clergy. Some specific answers have been returned ; and they have good reason to expect that in the course of the present year many valuable communications will be placed in the archives of the Museum. The Meteorological Committee has been engaged in pre¬ paring a general plan of observations on atmospheric pheno- menaj which they hope to cause to be executed at many stations contemporaneously, so as speedily to determine the principal elements of the local climate of Yorkshire. To effect this desirable combination of results, it was required not only to propose a good plan, but to prove its practicability with the ordinary means and activity of a provincial Society or the leisure of insulated observers. They have, therefore, been diligently employed in determining one of the most difficult of all the problems to be solved by their proposed scheme of observations, viz. the oscillations of the barometer at several hours of the day. The observations on this subject have been personally executed by the Secretaries so as to give results either exact or approximate for the last fifteen months, as expressed in the following table, where all the mean results are compared with the standard observation at 9, a. m. and the differences, to thousandths of an inch, in excess or defect, marked by the signs -j- and — . the oscillation cluriog the period of these observations has been greatest in the winter half-year (9 a. m. to 4 p. m.) = ,0278, and least in the summer half-year (4 p. m. to 10 p. m.) ~ .0188. The colamn for 9 a. m. contains the monthly means at that hour for 1832^, reduced to Fo 8 REPORT OF P. M THE COUNCIL. 9 Before they proceed to financial statements, the Council think it right to inform the Meeting, that whatever expenses have been incurred by the scientific and antiquarian Com¬ mittees, in the prosecution of the duties devolved upon them, they have been defrayed by themselves without any charge to the Society ; and further that it is by means of a subscription among the Members, which however is not yet complete, that the cost of the Observatory is to be provided for ; and that such additions to the Library and the Garden as come not within the lists of donations presented at the monthly Meet¬ ings, have been made. Such instances of unabating zeal and warm attachment, on the part of the Members, is a gratifying proof of the real strength of the Society ; yet it cannot fail to excite a feeling of deep regret that the interest upon the building debt, though partially diminished by the £50. loans, should exhaust nearly all the surplus of the annual income, and thus render the Society so much dependent upon the liberality of individual Members, for the accomphshment of objects which ought to be provided for from the common stock. It has not been found practicable by the most rigid economy that unexpected circumstances admitted, and the general interest and character of the Institution would justify, to save from the income of the past year more than £3. During that period seventeen new Members have been elected, and their admission fees have been applied to the diminution of the debt. On a scrutiny of expenses incurred during the year, by repairs of the building, the completion of the garden, prepara¬ tion of specimens, and consumption of gas, it appears possible that the annual expenditure may be decreased by about £25. and the Society may still go on, trusting for the extinction or at least the diminution of the debt, to the fluctuating admission of new Members, and deferring to a future distant period the providing of those cases to receive the specimens, which the 10 REPORT OF State of the Museum and the expectations of the contributors so imperiously demand. But such a state of inaction would be a virtual abandonment of all the objects which have been so warmly cherished and so successfully prosecuted, and repugnant to the spirit of the Institution. If the Society had been accustomed to rely entirely or chiefly on its own pecuniary resources for the storing of its Museum, if its objects were confined within a narrow sphere, and no particular interest were felt in its prosperity beyond the neighbourhood of its establishment, it might remain in a state of languor, without exciting general disappointment ; it would have only to abstain from fresh purchases, and to make the best use it could of what it already possessed. But such is not the character or the condition of this Society. It is, as its first excellent President has emphatically and justly described it, a County Institution, destined for active and increasing exertion. Its objects are most comprehensive ; and with these the interest excited in its welfare is fully commensurate. Por the rich treasures of its Museum, it is indebted almost entirely to the zeal and liberality of its Members and its friends : what it has received is only an earnest of much more to come. As its various collections increase, and their value and importance in aiding the pursuit of science are more generally experienced, the zeal and liberality of contributors will increase in proportion, and nothing can check them but the inability of the Society to provide proper receptacles for the contributions poured in upon it, not only from the County of York, but from the most distant regions of the globe, and to dispose of them in such a manner as shall secure the attainment of the end for which they are bestowed. To that inability, which cannot but prove highly detrimental, the In¬ stitution will be reduced, if the difficulties under which it now labours be not removed. Under this conviction, the Council earnestly call upon the Annual Meeting to adopt such means as may appear most advisable for immediately diminishing that THE COUNCIL. 11 heavy pressure which baffles the most rigid care and economy, and paralyzes the best efforts of the officers of the Institution. They do not, however, refer this matter to the judgment of the Meeting with any feeling of despondency. The Society’s finances are in no confusion, its income is regular and in¬ creasing, and not inadequate to the moderate scale of its establishment, but it is oppressed by the interest of a debt upon the Building. A determined effort at the present junc¬ ture may enable the Council to proceed at once with the completion of the central Museum, and thus relieve the Insti¬ tution from the most pressing of the actual difficulties. Its immediate usefulness will be thus augmented, and its perma¬ nent prosperity secured ; and it will still continue to be as it has hitherto been, no inconsiderable distinction to have con¬ tributed to the erection of this beautiful edifice, and the forma¬ tion of these agreeable and instructive gardens, and to have provided an adequate fund for the effectual prosecution of researches into the Natural History and Antiquities of York¬ shire. 12 ANNUAL ACCOUNT. St (It 448 0 0 3 0 0 21 0 0 6 5 0 9 15 0 488 0 0 Balance due to the Treasurer * ... ... ... 78 18 1 RECEIPTS. Annual Subscriptions from 224 Members, at j€2. Ditto from 3 Members at £l. From Ladies being Annual Subscribers For Keys of Garden Donation from Jonathan Gray, Esq, for Case of Clock in the Library * There is due to the Society on this Account for Arrears of Annual Sub¬ scriptions, £S2t which will leave a Balance in the Society’s favour of £3. D. 11(7, ANNUAL ACCOUNT, 13 PAYMENTS. £. s. d. Rent to the Crown » • • 1 0 8 . Corporation ... ... 6 12 6 Parochial Rates, &c. . . . ... 15 13 0 Water Rent . . 4 4 0 Insurance ... • • 4 ... ^ 0 0 Salaries and Wages : Keeper of the Museum ... 0 • • ... 100 0 0 Subcurator ... . . . 65 0 0 Lodgekeeper ... ... 10 0 0 Collector and Messenger , . , 2 12 6 Labourer ... . . 36 8 0 Printing and Advertising : Report for 1831 * • • ... 18 3 0 Miscellaneous Printing ... ... 8 7 6 Stationery ... ... ... • .» Books and Binding : Books . , , ... 33 4 0 Binding ... 7 3 0 Incidents, Carriage, &c. ... Sundry small Bills Miscellaneous Repairs ... • • • Garden « » • Gas, one Year and a half Coke Preparation of Specimens Case of Clock in the Library Interest on Debt • • 9 3. J. Z2 10 2 214 0 6 26 10 6 4 10 40 7 0 33 7 8 14 14 11 47 18 2 8 3 10 21 8 8 18 10 2 12 5 6 9 13 0 83 5 0 1^.566 18 1 GENERAL ACCOUNT £. s. d. £. s. d. Received Arrears of An- Balance due to the Trea- nual Subscriptions for surer on Annual Ac- former years ... 60 0 0 count, 1831 ... ... 79 9 0 Received Subscriptions to Ditto on General Account, the Building ... 30 0 0 1831 . 1753 1 6 Received Composition . . . 20 0 0 Paid Bills for fitting up Received Admission of 16 Museum, which were New Members 48 0 0 left unsettled in 1831, as stated in the last 158 0 0 Year’s Report... ... 130 2 8 Actual Balance due to the Treasurer * ... 1804 13 2 £.1962 13 2 £.1962 13 2 * The Arrears due to the Society on this Account are £153. 12s. which will re¬ duce the Balance against the Society to £1651. 1^, 2d.f being upwards of of 50, less than that of 1831..^ — <£450. of the debt is advanced by Members in sums of £50. each. The remainder by Messrs. Swann, and Co. SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS TO THE GENERAL MEETINGS. February, 1832 _ On the methods employed in Russia for purifying and rendering malleable the Platinum of the Oural Mines, by Wm. Marshall, F.G.S. ^ On the Oscillations of the Barometer, by John Phillips, F.G.S. Description of Lestris Pomerinus, shot off the coast of Scarborough, October, 1831, by W. H. Rudston Read, Esq. Summaries of Meteorological Observations for the year 1831, at Ackworth, by Luke Howard, Esq. ; atBrandsby, by Francis Cholmeley, Esq. ; at Huggate, by the Rev. T. Rankin. March. — Results of Observations on the Oscillations of the Ba« rometer, mean and extreme temperatures, and quantities of rain falling at different heights, during the months of November, December, January, and February last, by Wm. Gray, jun. Esq., and John Phillips, F.G.S. April. — Description of a Barometer with an amplified vertical scale, by '\Filliam Wharton, Esq. * Phil. Mag. and Journal, for May, 1832. 16 SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS. October. — On the Lower or Canister Coal Series of Yorkshire, by John Phillips, F.G.S. On a remarkable case of decomposition of stone, in Crayen, by James Hamerton, Esq. Description of a Method by which a Pendulum may be put into beat without stopping the clock, by the Rev. Wm. Taylor. NovEMBER.=-On the Organic Remains of the Lower or Canister Coal Series of Yorkshire, by John Phillips, F.C.S. On the occurrence of fishes supposed to have fallen from the air during a heavy storm of rain, at Clitheroe, in November, 1821, by James Hamerton, Esq. December.' — On certain peculiarities of the bony fabric of the Ostrich, Emu, and Swift, by Thomas Allis. * Phil. Mag. and Journal, for November, 1832. 17 RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE YORKSHIBE PHIEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, FEBRUARY 5, 1833, (The Rev. Charles Wellbeloved, Vice-President^ in the Chair^) The Report of the Council having been read, from which it appeared that the Ordinary Annual Income of the Society was inadequate to meet any expenditure beyond the current expenses of the year ; and it having been stated to the Meet¬ ing that there existed the most pressing necessity for imme¬ diately completing the Cases and Gallery designed for the central Museum, so as to preserve and allow of properly arranging the Zoological collection ; likewise that the expense of these constructions was estimated not to exceed £4<50 : It was resolved, I. That, in order to afford such accommodation as the state of the Zoological collection and the general interest felt in that branch of Natural History demand, it is necessary to have the central Room forthwith fitted up. II. That, in order to enable the Society to carry the foregoing resolution into effect, it is expedient that a Sub¬ scription be immediately commenced. c 0 18 IiIBT OF BUBBOHIPTIONB RECEIVED TOWARDS FITTING UP THE ZOOLOGICAL ROOMc^ £. Hon. and Rev. H. E. J, Howard ... ... 10 Sir J. Johnstone, Bart. M.P. 10 Dr. Wasse, Moat Hall ... 5 E. W., by Dr. Wasse ... 5 Rev. W. V. Harcourt ... 5 Rev. Win. Flower, jun. ... 5 Francis Cholmeley, Brandsly 5 John Wood ... ... 5 Wm. Wright, Richmond ... 5 Eust. Strickland ... 3 Thomas Allis ... ... 2 Edward Elgin ... ... 2 Wm. Kirby ... ... 3 Sm (ti> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 £. Wm. Gray, Jun. ... 2 Henry Robinson ... 2 Rev. Charles Wellbeloved 3 Jonathan Gray ... ... 10 John F. Brown ... ... 5 Rev. C. Sykes, Rooss ... 5 Rev. S. Creyke ... ... 5 William Prest ... ... 5 James Atkinson ... 3 Charles Robinson ... 2 Robert Henry Anderson ... 2 Rev. W. Hincks ... 1 Henry Smales ... ... 3 Richard Nicholson ... 2 3. do 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 g 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 The Museum contains, at present, of Geological, Minera- logical, and Zoological Specimens, about 20,000 ; of which 13,800 are exhibited in proper cases, 4,300 are either nut exhibited at all, or else placed in very unsuitable cases and drawers, and 2,000 duplicates. The number of dried plants^ in the Herbarium is about 10,000 ; of coins and other anti¬ quarian objects 3,000. Total 33,000. DONATIONS TO THE SOCIETY’S MUSEUM. GEOLOGY. Mr. John Bleckly . . Mass of organic remains from the lias of Whitby. Mr. J. F. Brown ... ... Spongise in chalk_, specimens of Italian marbles. ?lev. W. Bnckland, D. D. Portions of the hone bed” of Aust Cliff on the Severn ; Geodes from Mendip, teeth and hones of hear from Quingey Cave. Mr. F. J. Copsie ... ... Ammonites rotula^ pholas constricta^ and other fossils from Speeton. Rev. Stephen Croft ... ... Skull and hones of a badger from the Crag near Ipswich^ accompanied by the skull of a dog and voluta Lamberti. Josh. Dawson^ Esq, Stigmariae, lepidodendra, &c. from the lower coal series near Halifax. John Davy, M. D. Malta Wm. Danhy, Esq. Swinton Park Volcanic substances from the new volcanic island off Sicily. Spongias in flint, plants and ironstone from collieries in Durham. Lord Feversham . . Jet impressed by an ammonite, from Bilsdale. 2 c 20 DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. Earl Fitzwilliam, F.R.S., Several large specimens of sigillaria, cala- F.G.S. mites, &c. from the coal strata of Raw- marsh. Rev. C. V. Harcourt ... The specimen of lepidodendronHarcourtii, from which Mr. Witham^’s section was taken. C. Loscomhe, Esq. F.S.A; Pentacrinns hriareus from Charmouth, and other fossils. Wm. Marshall, F.G.S. ... Trilohites, pocilloporse, cateniporae, spiri- ferae, &c. from the transition limestone of Christiania ; ananchytes, marsupites, spongia cribrosa, &c. from the chalk of Bridlington ; hippurites from the Un- tersberg near Salzburg. Scarborough Phil. Society Casts of fruits from the Yorkshire coast. Rev. Christopher Sykes ... Os humeri of pterodactylus from Stones- field. Undescribed species of algacites, various hones of gigantic saurian ani¬ mals. Henry Smales, Esq. ... ... Several specimens of palaeothrissum from the magnesian limestone in Durham, on the line of the Clarence railway. Mr. Daniel Tuke ... ... Specimens of the several limestones and sandstones of the mountain limestone series of Aldstone moor. Rev. Charles Wellbeloved Fossil fish from Durham. Mr. S. Woodward, F.G.S. Casts of three species of stellerida from the chalk of Norfolk. MINERALOGY. Rev. S. Creyke . Tabular quartz from St. Austel, crystal¬ lized oxide of iron from Beeralston,, mammellated calcedony from Babbi- combe_, and other minerals. Wm. Danby^, Esq. Swinton Quartz crystals from the Alps^ semiopal Park. from Hungary^ carbonate of iron_, radi¬ ated oxide of iron_, oxide of manganese and other minerals,, from Devonshire and CornwalL Mrs. R. Davies . Mr. Henry Downing George Hartley^ Esq. Mid¬ dleton Lodge, Sulphate of barytes crystallized. Granular muriate of copper from Peru. Copper ore found at Middleton Tyas. C. Loscombe, Esq. F.A.S. Meteorolite from L’Aigle. Wm. Marshall^ Esq. F.G.S, Mass of native platinum^ weighing 2 oz. 11 dwt. English ; osmium and iridium from the Oural mountains ; zircon,, pyrochlore, &c. from the Government of Orenburg ; chromate of lead^ malachite, beryl, topaz, &c. from Siberia. Mrs. Thorpe ...’ ... ... Cat’s eye, and turquoise from Siberia. Jonah "VTasse, M.D. ... Radiated silicate of zinc and elastic bitu¬ men from Derbyshire. ZOOLOGY. Mr. J. F. Brown . Mr. Donkin . Dickson ••• ... ... Mr. Henry Crummack ... Rev. S. Creyke . Mr. William Chaplin Mrs. R. Davies . Wm. Danby^ Esq. Swinton Park. Lord Feversham . Caryophyllia angulosa^ retepora cellusosa. Podiceps nigricans. Skeleton of a polar bear. Young white swallow. A musk bag ; several foreign shells. Skull and horns of a ram. 4 species of foreign shells. Series of shells from the south coast of England. Partridge with a singular ventral ex¬ crescence. Wm. Gray, jun. Esq. ... Echeneis remora. Samuel Hailstone, Esq. Various shells. F.G.S. James Hamerton, Esq. Small fish f young of a cyprinus ) which HelUJield Peel. fell on the ground near Clitheroe, during a storm of rain, November, 1831. Rev. W. Hincks, F.L.S. Asterias endeca and A. papposa. Lady Howden ... ... ... Brazilian and other birds, including The white tropic bird, ( Phceton.J Crotophaga ani. Lanius sulphuratus. "Widow-bird, f Vidua variegata,) Loxia capensis. Wax-billed grosbeak, (Loxia a^trild, Gm.yJ &c. Lord Morpeth .. . Iguana from the West Indies. Wm. Middleton, Esq. . . . Diseased maxillary bone of a horse. DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 23 Wm. Marshall, Esq. F.G.S. Aphrodita aculeata, pholas crispata, p. Can¬ dida, saxicava rugosa, in chalk from the Yorkshire coast ; roebuck, golden eagle, strix bubo, ptarmigan, viper, &c. from Germany ; 450 species of coleoptera, principally from the south of Germany, Rev.LJ.D.Preston,F.C.P.S. 56 species of British insects. W, R. Reed, Esq . Lestris pomerinus, shot off the coast of Scarborough, October, 1831. Captain Stewart . Egg of the Alligator. Mr. Daniel Tuke . Large hairball from the stomach of an ox. Mr. Charles 'V\Tiite,E. I. C. Albatross, {Diomedea ecculans ; ) booby, ( Pelicanus Sula Lin.,) and other birds : explanaria, pocillopora, and other corals. Capt. 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