First report of the proceedings, recommendations, and transactions of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

  • British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Date:
1832
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    EXHIBITIONS, &c. Mr. Gould, Member of the Zoological Society of London, exhibited select specimens of Birds figured and described in his work on the Ornithology of the Himalya Mountains, and copies of this work were laid upon the tables for inspection. Mr. R. Havell exhibited Drawings of Birds for Mr. Audubon’s great work on American Ornithology. Mr. Hey, Curator to the Philosophical Society of Leeds, shewed some remarkable specimens of Fishes from the York- shire coal district, which belong to the Museum of that In- stitution. Mr. Williamson, Keeper of the Museum to the Philo- sophical Society of Scarborough, brought for examination a series of the reliquiae of fossil Crustacea recently discovered in the strata of that coast. Mr. Wm. Gilbertson, of Preston, displayed an instructive suite of Crinoidal remains with other remarkable fossils from the vicinity of Clithero, and marine shells belonging to exist- ing species from the gravel deposit on the banks of the Ribble. Copies of recent publications lay upon the tables from Dr. Boswell Reid, from Mr. John Y. Thompson of Cork, from Mr. Ashley of Edinburgh, Mr. Harrison of Barton, and others. Mr. Smith, Author of the Map of the Strata of England, shewed a Geological Map of the district round Hackness. Mr. Murchison, President of the Geological Society, shewed coloured Maps representing the Transition Rocks, the old Red Sandstone, and Carboniferous Limestone, on the border of Wales; the basin of new Red Sandstone (as Mr. Mur- chison has determined it to be) in the Vale ofClwydd; and other Maps, Sections, and Notices relating to parts of South Wales, Lancashire, Durham, and Yorkshire.