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ANNUAL REPORT
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
OF THE
Workshire Whilosophical Society
FOR Sk A. SN oMpocexxXxv.
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
FEBRUARY 3rD, 1836.
THOMAS WILSON AND SONS, HIGH-OUSEGATE.
1836.
CONTENTS.
Page. List of THE TrustEEs, Patrons, OrFicers, &c. «.. V REPORT oF THE CouNciIL... “ve eae Oe ae TREASURER’S ANNUAL AccouUNTS eek ue can 5 ScientTIFIC CoMMUNICATIONS ... oe ae er 11 DonaTIONS TO THE MUSEUM ... ek ae st) ee DonaTIONs TO THE LIBRARY ... o oe We ae | Donations ms THE SociETY’s Fund ... ese PA | New MemBers ... Pee a nae ae rae |
AQ
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 being, of the Society established at York, called “ Tuz Yorxsuire Puaiosopuicat Society,” for the use of the said Society, the sum of to be paid out of such part of my personal estate, us I may legally charge therewith. [Or here enumerate the effects or property intended to be 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,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S., F.S.A.
EARL DE GREY.
HON. anv VERY REV. THE DEAN OF LICHFIELD. FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ. F.S.A. ROBERT DENISON, ESQ.
REV. W. VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S. WILLIAM HATFEILD, ESQ. F.G.S. WILLIAM LAWSON, ESQ.
EUSTACHIUS STRICKLAND, ESQ. RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
PATRONESSES
OF
Che Porkshire Philosophical Society,
Her Royat Hicuness THe DUCHESS OF KENT. Her Royat Hicuness Tot PRINCESS VICTORIA.
PATRONS.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S.
EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F.R.S.
VISCOUNT MORPETH.
LORD STOURTON.
LORD WHARNCLIFFE.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
PRESIDENT : Tue Eart Firzwitiiam, F.R.S., F.S.A.
VICE-PRESIDENTS :
Rev. Wm. Vernon Harcovrt, F.R.S. Wm. Harreitp, F.G.S.
EustTacuius STRICKLAND.
JAMES ATKINSON.
Paut Betitzy Tuompson, M.P. Batpwin Wake, M.D.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. vii
TREASURER:
JONATHAN GRay.
COUNCIL: Elected 1834 ...... . Rev. D. F. Marxuan.
JoHN Brook. Witi1am Lewin Newman, F.R.A.S. Grorce Hicxs SEymouvr. Elected 1835 ....... Rev. Rosert Bryan Cooke, F.G.S. Cuartes HenreaceE Estey. Francis CHotme ey, F.S.A. Rev. CuariEs WELLBELOVED. Elected 1836 ....... JamMEs BarBER. H. S. Betcomsg, M.D. Witii1am BLANsHARD.
Rev. Tuomas Ecerron, F.G.S.
SRCBETA RIES: Witiiam Gray, JUN. Joun Pures, F.R.S., G.S.
Vill OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
CURATORS:
Rev. Joun GrauHamM ... GEOLOGY.
Witiiam Hatreizp, F.G.S..... Mrneratoey.
JAMES ATKINSON Ka ... COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. Tuomas ALLIS ols
ORNITHOLOGY. Rev. J. B. GRAHAM ...
Rey. I. J.D. Preston, F.C.P.S. Enromotoey.
Rev. W. Hincxs, F.L.S. ... Botany. Rev. C. WELLBELOVED ... ANTIQUITIES AND Corns. | Henry Rosinson sng ... LIBRARY.
KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM: Joun Purtuirs, F.R.S., G.S.
SUB-CURATOR:
Henry Baines.
REPORT
OF
THE COUNCIL.
Tue Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society has now the duty of offering to the Thirteenth Annual Meeting a concise view of the state and prospects of the Institution. During the past year considerable progress has been made in the enrichment of the Museum, improvements have been accomplished in the garden, the scientific concerns of the Society have been in several points advanced, the finances’ are improved, and the debt is diminished. In the course of the year the Society has been honoured by a special visit of two members of the Royal Family, and received munificent marks of their interest in its welfare.
While, at a very short distance from this Museum, another public institution is rising to record the growing desire in our country for the improvement of the moral and intellectual condition of all classes of the people,—while, through the whole North of England, new literary and scientific associa- tions are established, it is gratifying to feel that the public favour, and the patronage of Yorkshire, are not withdrawn from this Society. Nor does there appear any ground for anticipating a reverse to the picture of continual prosperity which is found in the Reports of former years ;—there has never been but one difficulty pressing on our exertions; but if our funds have long been restricted, it is gratifying to know that our expenses are now controlled, and after a year of extraordinary outlay and liberal grants for various improve- ments and researches, the Meeting will find that the Balance due to the Treasurer has been diminished £157. 7s. Od.
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2 REPORT OF
During the year, the Geotocicat Collection of the Society has been considerably enriched. ‘The already fine series of Ter- tiary Organic Remains has been rendered extremely valuable to the general student, by a large donation of Sicilian Fossils ; ! and still more instructive to the local geologist by the addition of a series of specimens from Bridlington Quay, obtained from a locality where several of our members had previously found indications of a Tertiary deposit, though it is only with- in the last year that the state of the coast permitted a satis- factory investigation of it. *
A collection of fossils from the mountain limestone of the N. W. of Ireland, received. from Lord Cole, has been found of great value for the laborious comparison of Organic forms from different localities on which Professor Phillips has been lately occupied in order to complete his Work on the Geology of Yorkshire. ‘The Second Volume of that Work is now passing through the press, with very numerous drawings of fossils, maps, and sections, and thus labours which have continued through all the period of the existence of this Society will terminate in the fulfilment of one of its earliest recommendations, having for its object the illustration of the interior structure of a county remarkably rich in geological interest.
The Zoorocicat collections have been augmented by several contributions of British and Foreign Birds and Qua- drupeds, some of them extremely valuable; large additions have also been made to the cabinets of shells; some Foreign Insects have been presented, and many more will be received so soon as suitable cabinets can be prepared. Useful additions have been made to the British Crustacea and other invertebral
1 Presented by J. Ingham, Esq. * George Lloyd, Esq. gave permission for excavations to be made in the cliff under the direction of the Rev. J. Graham.
THE COUNCIL. 3
classes, from the shores of the South of England. The Col- lection of British Birds has been arranged and named upon a plan which allows of the work being gradually completed : but this was found impracticable with respect to Foreign Birds, (now exceeding one thousand in number,) until they should be all completely mounted. The cost of this process for several hundred birds was too great for the Council hastily to incur: the work is however proceeding, and it will be for the next Council to ascertain how far the statement of finances, hereafter appended, will justify a more vigorous prosecution of it. It is proposed to make an alteration in this room, by removing the insects to a cabinet of drawers: thus providing additional space for the complete classification of a larger series of Foreign and British Shells.
The arrangement of the Boranicat Collections has been suspended in consequence of the want of a suitable receptacle for them ; this deficiency may perhaps be supplied.
The state of the Garden has been frequently brought under the consideration of the Council; and a large quantity of soil and peat has been added to particular parts; a con- siderable improvement has been effected near the multangular tower, by an alteration of the line of the boundary wall, and permission has been given for the erection of a Conservatory by the Sub-Curator.
The Instruments in the Observatory have been in continual use; and some improvements have been effected in the arrange- ment and employment of them; an interesting addition has been made in the curious equatorial of Mr. Abraham Sharpe, which has been presented by Mr. Newman. The expenses of this useful establishment have been hitherto defrayed by the gentlemen who give their time and skill to the task of observation ; the debt left on the erection of the building has
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4 REPORT OF
not been discharged by the Society ; and it appears desirable that these arrangements should be put upon a more satisfac- tory footing.
‘The value of such an establishment in fostering and dif- fusing a taste for astronomical researches, was exemplified in two instructive lectures on Cometary Astronomy delivered to the Society by Mr. Newman; and the Council confidently anticipates from the zeal and information of several of the Members of the Society, a succession of instructive discourses on this and other branches of science during the next session, It has been the wish, both of the Council and of the gentle- men alluded to, that the admission to these lectures should be gratuitous, at least to Members of the Society; it has however been suggested that the opportunity should not be lost, of endeavouring by such means to provide funds for the liquidation of the observatory debt, should this Meeting not think it proper to direct the immediate settlement of that account, and to become the rightful and real possessors of the edifice and the valuable instruments which it now contains, and may hereafter receive by private liberality. *
» During the week of the Musical Festival, which took place in September, it was thought advisable to adopt every means of rendering the Museum and gardens accessible to the nu- merous and respectable strangers then assembled in York ; but as an indiscriminate admission within its gates appeared wholly incompatible with quiet and good order, and inconsis- tent with the general spirit of the Institution, Tickets were prepared, at a small price, for the use of those persons who failed to provide themselves with the regular introduction of a Member. About one thousand persons testified, by the pur- chase of these tickets, their sense of the convenience of the arrangement ; and thus without in the smallest degree in-
* I]t was resolved by the Annual Meeting that the debt on the Observatory should be discharged ont of the Society’s funds.
THE COUNCIL. 5
fringing on the rights of subscribers, and without endangering the comfort and good order of the establishment, the public were gratified, and the funds of the Institution benefited to the extent of £40. For this proceeding, under the pecu- liar circumstances of the case, the Council has no doubt that the Meeting will fully accord their approbation, and it appears desirable that, for the future, the discretionary power of the Council in such matters should not be abridged : it is however for this Meeting to decide whether any further
directions are required. *
The Musical Festival produced to the Society the honour of a most gratifying visit from Turin Royat Hicunesses THE DucueEss oF KENT AND THE PRINcEsSs Victoria, who, after examining all the collections with attention, inscribed their names as PatronessEs of the Yorkshire Museum, and contributed a munificent donation for the augmentation of
the Library.
In the ANTIQUARIAN department some valuable additions have been made during the last year. Mr. J. R. Mills has presented to the Society a curious Egyptian tablet, obtained from the collections of the late Mr. Salt. From Mr. Swineard have been received some beautiful remains of an altar screen, in stone, found buried in a garden near the western end of the Minster: and from the City Commissioners, the stones of a fine arch nearly entire; a part, it is probable, of the Hospital of St. Peter. But among the various additions to this department of the Museum, the mortar formerly be- longing to the Infirmary of St. Mary’s Abbey, must be regarded as of peculiar value. This curious relic, which having been lost from York soon after the days of Drake, appeared again several years ago in a foundry at Birmingham ;
* The Meeting resolved that strangers not introduced by a member or by written order, might be admitted by Tickets, to be provided by the Council, and sold under their direction at one shilling each.
6 REPORT OF
and, having there narrowly escaped the melting pot, had been transferred to the cabinet of a neighbouring antiquary,* has at length through the liberality of Mr. S. Kenrick, of West Bromwich, been safely deposited on the very site, and amidst a great portion of the remains of the Monastery for the use of which it was originally designed.
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* J. Blount, Esq., at whose ceath the mortar, with the rest of his collection of antiquities, being put up to sale by auction, was purchased at a considerable price by Mr. S. Kenrick. It is of bell metal, weighs 76 Ib., and measures in height 9 inches, and in width at the top 114 inches. It bears two inscriptions: the upper,
+ MORCAREG. SCE. JORES. EWAPNEED. De. EFEBMARLA. BE. PARLE. EWOR. the lower, + gf. WILLS. DE. COUTHORP. ME. SECC. 4. Bw. HACC CULE.
THE COUNCIL 7
In following out the Resolution of the last Annual Meeting relative to the lease of the Manor Shore, the Council has found on the part of the Government every desire to forward the objects of the Society, as far as the law allows; but new circumstances have arisen, which rendered it inexpedient to adopt a definitive arrangement without once more appealing to the general body of the Society. It appears, after full con- sideration, and especially after examination of the stipulations in the draft of the lease, that it will be more advantageous to the Society to effect the negociation for obtaining possession of the remainder of the Manor Shore by purchase rather than by lease. A real possession of the ground, the power to turn it to useful purposes in harmony with the situation and with the objects of the Institution, is not to be had by lease from the crown, either for 33 or 99 years; the former is too short a tenure, the latter encumbered with restrictions directly at variance with the clearest objects of the Society. Regarded, moreover, as a question of profitable investment of money, the Council is of opinion that the purchase of more than five acres of ground, with houses, &c. adjoining the Ruin and the Museum Garden, for £2,500. is more advantageous than a lease for 99 years at £70. per annum, with stipulations to erect permanent edifices of the value of £2,500. *
But one thing remains to be presented to the Meeting be- fore proceeding to consider this important question—the State of the Society’s Finances.
* The Council was authorized by the Annual Meeting to purchase the ground.
8 ANNUAL ACCOUNT.
RECEIPTS. £. & a, Received Annual Subscriptions from 226 Members at 2/. . 452 0.0 Ditto Ditto 6 Members at 17. oe 6 00 CE j Sir Charles Ibbetson 5 5 O 2 750 Mrs. Danby 2 0 0 From Ladies being Annual Subscribers... “ tee ee SOO 0 For Keys of the.Garden eos won miei Pot doe, oO _ Rev. W. Gooch, Donation for HO Sig of ¢ Maps for the Library soe eee eee «- 1010 0 For Gas consumed by Members of the Evening Party ... . 110 0 Balance of Extraordinary Account, viz. ’ Received for Tickets of Admission during the Festival 50 12 0 Paid expenses connected therewith doe 1219.6 37 12 6 Balance Due to the Treasurer ... nh Smeal tk a LS Se £57215 6 | —.
ANNUAL ACCOUNT.
PAYMENTS. Rent and Taxes : Rent to the Crown tee 2 an GAN aa selevesoe - Corporation .. Rates, &c. ... Water Rent Insurance ... oa
Salaries and Wages : Keeper of the Museum ... Sub-curator .. eee ats! Allowance oe Labour in Garden a Misetiei Sin Lodge Keeper Collector and Messenger
Printing and Advertising :
Report for 1834 cee Ae =o Miscellaneous Advertising ... Ay ace
Stationery :
Books and Binding : Books Binding... o. wi ao
Sundry Improvements: Fitting up of Zoological Room Antiquarian Collection... Iron Rails in Vestibule ... a aw Excavation in St. Mary’s Abbey --- eee Soil for Garden * aes Incidents : Incidents, Carriage, &c.
Repairs ese vee ase °
Garden eee eve Pa Gas eee eee eee eee Coke and Coal coe ons see
Purchases for Museum é Grant to Antiquarian Committee for ik expenses ... Interest on Debt ...
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30 17 10 100 0 O 65 0 0 40 0 0 10 0 O 111 6
21611 6 15 2 0 8 Il 6 010 0
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GENERAL ACCOUNT.
do be de eee Received Arrears of former Balance due to the Trea- Years ... at -- 565 0 0 surer, 1834 ... --- 1885 19 9 Compositions from three Balance due to him, An- Members aan ee! OO! OO nual Account, 1835 ... 1713 0
Admission often Members 30 0 0O Stamp duty on Grant from
the Crown, charged er-
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the Treasury ... ste Oe tO Balance due to the Trea- surer ... «~~ « 1728 12 9 £.1903 12 9 £.1903 12 9
The Council having examined the List of Arrears, and struck out such as appear irrecoverable, find Arrears due as follows.
£.°: 5 de
Annual Subscriptions, 1835 RE -- 64 00 Gn eRe URE Uy aos apdonat of former Years -. 87.0 0 Subscription to Building ie eae in ee OF iO For Copies of St. Mary’s Abbey... aa 6 0 0 £.178 0 0
Final Balance against the Society £1550. 12s. 9d.
JONA. GRAY,
TREASURER.
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS
TO THE
GENERAL MEETINGS.
Fesruary, 1835.—Summaries of Meteorological Observations for the year 1834; at Brandsby, by F. Cholmeley, Esq.; at Middleton, by the Rev. Mr. Blanchard ; at Moat Hall, by Dr. Wasse; at Hug- gate, by the Rev. Mr. Rankin ; at York, by Mr. Ford.
Notice respecting the Ancient Mortar of St. Mary’s Abbey, weight 76 lb. date 1308, by the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved.
Notice of a new form of Dew Point Hygrometer, by the*Rev. W. V. Harcourt, F.R.S.
Maxrcu.—On the Structure of Belemnites, by Professor Phillips, F.R.S.
Juty.—On the Sclerotic Bones in the Eyes of Birds and Reptiles, by T. Allis.
Notice of Barometrical Measurements of Mountains in Cumberland and Westmoreland, by Wm. Gray, jun.
Description of the Equatorial used by the eminent calculator, Abraham Sharpe, by W. L. Newman, F.R.A.S.
Octoser.—Account of Proceedings at the Dublin Meeting of the British Association for Advancement of Science, by Professor Phillips, F.R.S., and the Rev. J. Kenrick.
NovemsBer.—On a Monumental Cross at Hackness, by the Rev. W. V. Harcourt, F.R.S.
DecemBer.—On the Barometric Measurements of Heights, by Wm. Gray, jun.
On the characteristic Phenomena of the Aurora Borealis, in Nov. 1834, by Professor Phillips, F.R.S.
January, 1836.—On the Magnetical Effects of the Aurora Borealis, Dec. 23, 1835, by Professor Phillips, F.R.S.
DONATIONS
TO
THE SOCIETY’S MUSEUM.
The Earl of Arran
James Backhouse...
GEOLOGY.
Felix Bedingfeld, Esq. ...
F. Cholmeley, Esq.
Viscount Cole, M.P.
Rev. J. Graham ... Jona. Gray, Esq. ...
Joshua Ingham, Esq.
J. E. Lee, Esq. ... _ Dr. Mac Michael... R. Moorhouse, Esq.
Professor Phillips...
D. Priestman ove
Septaria, teredo, &c. from Bognor.
Large slab of silicised wood, found in contact with basalt, Van Dieman’s Land.
Fossil endogenous wood from Antigua,
Ammonites (New Species) from Brandsby, Yorkshire.
Series of lithodendra, crinoidea and other fossils from the limestone near Florence Court in Fermanagh.
Shells from the tertiary deposit of Brid- lington Quay.
Turrilites, baculites, &c. from the Rocher des Fiz.
Very extensive series of zoophyta, and shells, from the tertiary limestone of Sicily.
Casts of new spongie from Bridlington.
Silicised wood from Van Dieman’s Land.
Spines of cidaris florigemma.
_ Astrea favosioides, &c. from Settrington.
Casts of vertebre of ichthyosaurus from Lyme Regis.
Rocks collected in Zetland.
DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. . 13
Thomas Smyth, Esq. ... Kilkenny and other Irish marbles.
Earl of Tyrconnel, F.R.S. Specimens of lava from the Red Sea.
Dr. Wasse ... wn .. Lithodendra, &c. from the diluvium near Boroughbridge.
~ Purchased... ses ese ~A series of shells from the tertiary deposit of Bridlington Quay. The total num- ber of species in the collection is 36.
MINERALOGY.
The Earl of Arran .-- Jaspers and agates from the South of Eng- land.
Jona. Gray, Esq. ... ... Agate from Switzerland. Mr. W. Whytehead, jun. Several Cumberland minerals.
ZOOLOGY.
Tr Bee fives ons ... ‘Gar, char, perch, roach, a species of pholas and cardium dentatum, serpula from Al- giers, Paradise tanager, long tailed rol- ler, three species of creeper, pelican, wild goose, three African hawks.
Mr. H. Baines... «» Red coral, water hen, gold-crowned wren, redwings (pair). J. Bennett, Esq. ... ... Horns of the buffalo.
Mr. J. F. Brown... .»» A Guinea fowl.
Rev. W. Bulmer ... «. Large specimen of cancer pagurus from Norway.
14 DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM.
Mr. H. Chapman... E. T. Copley, Esq.
F. J. Copsie, Esq. eee John Dalton, Esq.
R. Denison, Esq. ... doe Lieut. Dixon, RN. om
Foljambe, Esq.
W. Gray, jun., Sec. Y.P.S.
Lieut. M‘Gregor, R.N. oe
Rev. L. V. Harcourt ow
W. Hatfeild, F.G.S. eee
H. Healey, Esq. ... W. H. Hearon, Esq. ove
Joshua Ingham, Esq. «.
W. Lawson, Esq. Professor Phillips...
Rey. I. D. J. Preston C. Rawson, Esq., F.G.S.
W. F. Scott, Esq. eee Earl of Tyrconnel, F.R.S.
Dr. Wasse ... sea
A foreign species of cassida.
Series of foreign birds and insects from New South Wales and Brazil.
«Turbo. An albatross. Spotted woodpecker. Shells from the Isle of France, &c. 3 The Koala from New South Wales. Phaeton ethereus and other foreign birds. Musk rat of Van Dieman’s Land, echidna
hystrix, white hawk, black cockatoo.
A series of fishes, crustacea, annulosa, stel- lerida, polyparia, &c. from the south coast of England.
The cross bill (pair),
Pair of plotus anhinga, shoveller duck.
Parrot.
Terebratula vitrea.
An eel and lamprey eel from Brough.
Rifle bird (promerops superbus), m. and f. and other foreign birds, greenfinch, lark.
Hoopoe, shot in South of England.
Head of elephas indicus, skin of tiger, various Indian birds, &c.
Young kittiwake, oyster-catcher.
200 foreign shells, from the Red Sea and Persian Gulf; including rostellaria fu- sus, strombus tricornis, trochus Phara- onius, tellina lingua felis, murex ficus, murex tribulus, &c. &c.
Fungia limacina, isis hippuris, gorgonia two species.
DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 15
Mr. W. Whytehead, jun. _ British birds, jay, magpie, sparrow hawk, m., songthrush, m., blackbird, £, yellow hammer, m., skylark, redbreast, m., chaffinch, m., sparrow, m. and f.
Mice, m. f. and y. Voluta melo.
Miss Wickham ... «. Aseries of foreign shells, including pha- sianella, several species of conus, oliva, ovula, voluta, cassis, cerithium, buli- mus, &c.
Purchased ... Bis ... Several British and American birds; a emall number of shells.
BOTAN Y.
Rey. L. V. Harcourt ... Series of marine plants from the south coast of England.
ANTIQUITIES, COINS, &c.
Mr. J. F. Brown ... ee Coin found in excavations at the Castle.
City Commissioners .-- Stones of an arch, formerly a part of the Hospital of St. Peter.
R. Davies, Esq. ... -» Various coins, Roman and English, with other remains, found near St. Leonard’s Place.
Mr. Gibson -» o» An ancient ring.
Rev. J.Graham .. . A copper bowl, found in digging a drain in St. Saviourgate.
Fragments of Roman tiles, found in St.
Cuthbert’s Churchyard.
16
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
S. Kenrick, Esq., of West The ancient mortar of St. Mary’s Abbey ;
Bromwich, Hon. Mem. ¥.B.S.
Mrs. Knapton
J. R. Mills, Esq. ... W. Priestley, Esq. H. Robinson, Esq. J. Smith, Esq.
Mr. Swineard
Mr. Tilney ase
Dr. Wasse ... Rey. C. Wellbeloved
angel of Hen. VIII. ; and double crown of James I.
Five Roman denarii, ar.
Ancient Egyptian tablet.
Roman denarii, ar.
18 coins, chiefly Roman, from Aldborough.
Stones from the Old Cross in Pavement.
Several beautifully sculptured stones, found in Precentors’ Court.
Sculptured stones from the Roman Wall near Bootham Bar.
Fine medal of Charles I.
A stone from the part of the Roman Wall crossing Aldwark; an antique key ; Roman bowl and jar.
DONATIONS
M. Agassiz sae eee (the Author)
Society of Arts Astronomical Society F. Baily, Esq. F.RS.
Cambridge Phil. Society...
G. W. Featherstonhaugh, Esq. (New York)
Geological Society Jona. Gray, Esq. ...
TO THE LIBRARY.
Rapport sur les Poissons Fossiles, d’ An- gleterre.
Transactions for 1833-4.
The Greenwich Observations, 1829-33.
Life of Flamstead and his Catalogue of Stars, 4to.
Transactions, Vol. V. Part 3.
Report on the Geology of the Country between Missouri and Red River, 8vo.
Proceedings of the Society, 1834-5.
Memoire sur le Pont de fil de fer de Freyberg.
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY. by
—— Hailstone ... «. Notices of British Crustacea. Dr. Hibbert, F.R.S.E. .... Memoir on the Fresh Water Limestone of (the Author) Burdie House, 1835, 4to, plates. M. Necker (the Author) Le Regne Mineral, 2 vol. vo. Professor Phillips ... Print of the Organ Screen of York Min- ster, by Abraham. H. Sandwith, Esq. ... Address’ to the Mechanics’ Institute, Beverley. Whitby Lit. and Phil. Soc. Twelfth Annual Report. Misses Wickham... ... Turkish Almanac (Roll). Dr. Williamson ... ... Discourse on the Diffusion of Knowledge (the Author) among the Middle Classes, 8vo. Rey. R. Willis, F.R.S. .... On Gothic Architecture, 8vo. (the Author) Mr. 8. Woodward ... Excavations in Wymondham Abbey, 4to (the Author) (from the Archeologia). Portrait of himself.
Worcester Nat. Hist. Soc. Account of the Anniversary Meeting of the Society.
DONATIONS TO THE SOCIETY’S FUNDS IN 1835.
A donation of £50. for the purchase of scientific works has been received from their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the - Princess Victoria.
A donation of £10. 10s. has been received from the Rev. W. Gooch, M.A., for the purchase and fitting-up of Maps for the Library.
ANNUAL DONATIONS.
Sir Charles Ibbotson, Bart. Mrs. Danby
wo at one ocn
SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS
ELECTED FROM FEBRUARY, 1835, TO JANUARY, 1836.
Butterfield, James Moore, York. Dodsworth, George, York. Dodsworth, Benjamin, York. Egerton, Rev. Thomas, F.G.S. Dunningion. Fox, George Lane, Bramham. Kemplay, Christopher, York. Leadbitter, John, York. Richardson, Rev. Thomas, York. Russell, David, jun. York. Rymer Matthew, York.
Wood, John, York.
HONORARY MEMBER. Kenrick, Samuel, F.S.A. West Bromwich, Birmingham.
(Thomas Wilson and Sons, High-Ousegate, York.)
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ANNUAL REPORT
FOR
MDCCCXXXVI.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE COUNCIL
OF THE
Porkshire Bhilosophical Soctety
FOR MDCCCXXXVIL.
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
YORK:
THOMAS WILSON AND SONS, HIGH-OUSEGATE.
1837.
CONTENTS.
List oF THE TrusTEES, Patrons, OrFicERs, &c.
REPORT or tHe Counciu .. TREASURER’s ANNUAL AccouNTS ScreNTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS ... Donations To THE Museum ... DonaTIONs To THE LIBRARY ...
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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 :
T give and bequeath to the Trustees, for the time being, of the Society established at York,. called “ Tur Yorxsurre Puivosopnicat Society,” 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 be 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
THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT,
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S., F.S.A.
EARL DE GREY.
HON. ann VERY REV. THE DEAN OF LICHFIELD. FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ. F.S.A.
ROBERT DENISON, ESQ.
REV. W. VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S. WILLIAM HATFEILD, ESQ. F.G.S.
WILLIAM LAWSON, ESQ.
EUSTACHIUS STRICKLAND, ESQ.
RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
PATRONESSES
OF
The Vorkshire Philosophical Society.
Her Royat Hicuness Tur DUCHESS OF KENT. Her Royat Hicuness Tot PRINCESS VICTORIA.
PATRONS.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S.
EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F.R.S.
VISCOUNT MORPETH.
LORD STOURTON.
LORD WHARNCLIFFE.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
PRESIDENT :
Tue Eart Firzwititram, F.R.S.
VICE-PRESIDENTS :
Rev. Witt1am Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S. Wm. Hartreitp, F.G.S.
JAMES ATKINSON.
Batpwin Wake, M.D.
GeorcE Lane Fox.
Henry Preston.
Rev. 8. CRrREYKE.
Tuomas Barstow.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. vil
TREASURER:
JONATHAN GRAY.
COUNCIL: Elected 1835 ...... Rev. Rosert Bryan Cooke, F.G.S.
Cuartes HENEAGE ELSLEY.
Francis CHoLMELEY, F.S.A.
Rev. CoarLtEs WELLBELOVED. Elected 1836 ...... JAMES BARBER.
H. S. Betcomse, M.D.
Wittiam BLansHARD.
Rev. Tuomas Ecerron, F.G.S. Elected 1837 ...... Epwarp Etern.
Rev. Joun Kenrick.
EvusTacHius STRICKLAND.
Joun WoLsTENHOLME.
SECRETARIES:
WILui1AM Gray, JUN., F.G.S. Joun Puruirs, F.R.S., G.S.
Vili OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
CURATORS:
Rev. JoHn GraHAM ... GEOLOGY. Wixtiam HartreiLp, F.G.S, .... MIneratoey. JAMES ATKINSON sit! ... COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. Tuomas ALLIS ies ORNITHOLOGY. Rev. J. B. Granuam
Rev. I. J.D. Preston, F.C.P.S. Enromotoey.
Rev. W. Hincxs, F.L.S. .... Botany. Rev. C. WELLBELOVED ... ANTIQUITIES AND CoINs. Henry Rosinson bi. co. kel DRARY.
KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM: JOHN Puivuirs, F.R.S., G.S.
SUBCURATOR:
Henry Baines.
REPORT
OF
THE COUNCIL.
In the Report of the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Philo- sophical Society which is now offered for the consideration of the Annual Meeting, the Council is desirous of present- ing such information on the state and prospects of the Institution, as may enable the Members clearly to com- prehend the somewhat new circumstances under which it is placed, and decide on the measures best calculated to advance its progress and augment its usefulness.
In consequence of the recent purchase from the Crown of all that part of the Manor Shore lying between the Water-works and Marygate, and extending from the Museum Garden to the Ouse, the Society is now possessed of nine acres of land, once the property of St. Mary’s Abbey, and including, besides the beautiful remains of the Church, the ancient gateway, hospitium, and granary, as well as the round tower against the river.
Thus amply established on the site of a noble monastery, which in other days dispensed the benefits of knowledge, the Society will always be reminded of the conditions on which it enjoys these advantages, and incited to follow out the objects for which it was founded, and to perform
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its duty to the Crown and the Public, by earnest and dis- interested efforts in.the advancement of natural and antiqua- rian Science in Yorkshire.
To have added some portion of the newly acquired pro- perty to the already spacious grounds connected with the Museum, might have opened to the Members some monastic reliques and architectural combinations of great pictorial beauty; but was impracticable in the present condition of the Society’s finances. The Council therefore appointed 2 Committee, by whose judgment they have been much guided in apportioning the ground among some of the old tenants, and various new claimants.
In this duty they were sedulous to accomplish the re- moval of unsightly walls and tenements, from the Abbey lodge and gateway, the city wall and granary of the Abbey ; all modes of occupation which might be likely to injure the pleasing effects thus produced were rejected; and in dividing the land, care has been taken that if, at any future time, the Society shall resolve to augment its botanic garden, those parts likely to be most desirable shall be easily re- claimable at a short notice, and in a state of improved adap- tation.
With a desire to aid as far as may be the course of improvements now happily begun in York, the Council entertained proposals from a Company for the erection of a public Swimming Bath, and allotted for their use an acre of ground, under certain necessary conditions, adjoining the Abbey wall and the river; but this negociation is yet in- complete.
The payment to the Crown for the five acres and a half of ground, and the buildings and other property upon
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it, which was fixed at £.2,500, has been effected by the aid of a loan from the Yorkshire Fire and Life Insurance Office, to that extent, at 4 per cent :—in repairs, construc- tion of roads, and legal expenses, a further charge of £.74 has been incurred, and some additional outlay will yet be
required.
The rents already agreed for, with those which may rea- sonably be expected from some yet unappropriated parts, amount to about £.150; and, after the proper allowances for annual and incidental expenses, it is probable that a clear surplus income will remain of about £.40, which will speedily defray the above-named expenses and be afterwards available to the general funds of the Society.
But in executing this important trust the Council has not withdrawn its attention from the grounds which surround the Museum, and contribute to the popularity and utility of the Institution. A ruinous part of the city wall near the Roman tower has been substantially repaired; the boun- dary has been removed so as to enlarge the cultivable space of the garden; a greenhouse, purchased under favourable circumstances in consequence of a subscription begun among . the Members, has been erected, and is already full of plants ; a new fence has been constructed to give effect to a terrace walk under the city wall; and the reservoir for water has been reconstructed and enlarged. The ornamental effect of the garden has been further augmented by introducing many new plants. A larger sum of money bas thus been disposed of, than the Council would have thought it right to expend, had not the improvements been deemed necessary, and the time for effecting them too favourable to be passed by. . For the same reasons, repairs of the roof and interior of the building, which could no longer with safety be delayed, have been executed; some further expenses have been incurred in
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adapting some of the furniture to new uses, and in preparing Zoological specimens, and some useful purchases have been made for the Museum.
As, however, the best index of the condition of the Insti- tution is the favour of the public, the Members will learn with pleasure that by far the greatest additions made to the Library and Museums have been received as heretofore from voluntary contributions. Not to dwell on the numerous specimens furnished by Miss Gurney, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Hatfeild, Mr. Prestwich, Mr. Wm. Gray, Professor Phillips, and Mr. Harcourt, to the already large collections in the Gxo.tocicat Museum, the Council wishes to call especial at- tention to the noble monument of the ancient condition of the 3ritish Islands, the great extinct Elk of Ireland, presented by G. L. Fox, Esq. from his estate near Waterford. In this magnificent relique of other days the mind recognizes one of those characteristic forms of vanished beings, the study of which has given to the name of Cuvier an imperishable renown, and to the world at large subjects of inquiry and contempla- tion concerning the natural history of the earth, which must outlast this and many generations; and it may surely be pardoned to the Members of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, if they feel an honest pride in being the first to place in an English Museum a skeleton of this gigantic animal.
Considerable additions have been made to the Zootocicat collections, especially to the departments of Ornithology and Entomology. One hundred and thirty-seven birds from Au- stralia, collected by Capt. E. Markham; thirty birds from the Himalaya, the gift of Dr. Wake; besides some valuable species given by other friends of the Institution have enabled the officers to put the collection of foreign birds in a condition more equal to that of other departments of the Museum.
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Some valuable epiphytic orchideze have been given by Mr. $. Stutchbury, of the Bristol Institution, and a tree fern from Van Diemen’s Land, by Mr. Backhouse. The contributions in Entomology, by Mr. Meynell and others will, the Council hopes, be soon rendered available in appropriate cabinets: for these, though absolutely required, have not yet been con- structed ; the cost of preparing several hundred birds, and other expenses connected with the Museum, having compelled the Council to postpone all further disbursements.
The Liprary has been chosen as the place to receive one of the most gratifying of all the donations which has ever been made to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, the bust of its first President and constant benefactor—executed by
the hands of Chantrey at the request of a very large propor- "tion of the Members of the Society, who, in a public meeting, resolved by this beautiful work of art, fixed in the Yorkshire Museum, to perpetuate the memory of the services rendered to the Institution by the Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt. The volumes which Mr. Priestley has enriched by his laborious inquiries into the etymology of the obscure dialects of Craven are too closely connected with the ancient history of Yorkshire to be received with indifference ; and the copy of Observations made at Paramatta, presented by the Royal Astronomical Society, though of a character far beyond the present power of our useful observatory, may yet, from the peculiar circum- stances which gave them birth, encourage a hope that the taste now rising amongst us, for the cultivation of physical science, may in some future day be furnished with greater means of exertion.
The solar eclipse of May, 1836, was observed with care by one party of our Members at home, and by another who proceeded to view its annularity at Durham ; some data have thus and by other means been collected for the determination
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of the longitude of the Observatory, which is assumed from the position of York Minster, as given in the Trigonometrical Survey of Great Britain, to be nearly 4m. 19s. W. of Green- wich.
The Council has seen with satisfaction the completion of the Second Volume of the Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire, on which Professor Phillips has been so long employed; Mr. William Gray has collected the barome- trical and trigonometrical measures of different observers relating to the elevation of ground in Yorkshire into a con- venient synopsis; and it is hoped that the Sub-Curator of the Society may speedily be enabled to complete his pro- posed Guide to the Botanist in Yorkshire. Besides these distinct effects of the progress of natural science amongst us, the success which has attended the Evening Scientific Meet- ings, during the past year is a gratifying proof that the spirit of mutual improvement is more than ever active in our body, and by its unobtrusive operation preparing the way for a more extended communication of knowledge among the Members.
The Society is thus found to be in a good position in all that relates to its scientific reputation; the statement of the Trea- surer, appended to this Report, will shew that but for the taking into the account, by direction of the last Annual Meeting, the deficiency of the subscription for the Observa- tory (£130.) the amount of the general debt would have been reduced £40.
The Council would however not fulfil the duty it owes to the Society, did it not declare that there yet remain some further expenses to be incurred in the Library for books of re- ference, and in the Museum for cabinets to hold Insects, Plants, Minerals, and Geological specimens, which can be ill met if
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any considerable portion of the annual funds be reserved for the diminution of the debt. It must also be remembered that some of our cases are filled by specimens which are not, but ought to be, the property of the Society, and that a certain annual charge or a considerable present advance will be re- quired for the purchase of them.
But these requirements have been foreseen, and contem- plated without alarm, and encouraged by the assistance re- ceived this year from the President and Miss Currer—by the proceeds from the tickets of admission—by the advantageous purchase from the Crown,—and above all, by the conscious- ness that greater difficulties than these have been overcome when the Society was less prepared to meet them than now it is, the Council hopes that this Meeting will be of opinion that the affairs of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, though demanding every proper attention to economy, should still be conducted with that liberal regard to the dignity of the Institution and the interests of natural science, which offers the greatest attraction to new Members, and lays the surest
claim to the patronage of the community.
From the Mountain Limestone of Shropshire,
Presented by the Rev. T. Lewis.
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& _ ANNUAL ACCOUNT.
RECEIPTS.
RY SAS ray:
Received Annual Subscriptions from 220 Members at 2/. -. 440 0 0 Ditto from 5 at 1. ane Bc soe eee ane 5°00
x Sir Charles Ibbetson Fee 5 5 0
1 eo a ra } Mrs. Danby... a 200 t Fd From Ladies, being Annual Subscribers ose Sse gs. (8k 0-00 For Keys of Garden eee ee Fie ae alo 0 For Gas consumed at Evening Meetings ase es obe 110 0 For Tickets of Admission, deducting expense of Sale «+ Sel rOO ines. O Balance due to the Treasurer i oe ee «we. 65 17 10 £.617 10 10
Arrears due to the Society on this account ... £68 0 0
Rent and Taxes : Rent to the Crown ... ar Rent to the Corporation ose
Rates Water rent Insurance ...
Salaries and Wages :
ANNUAL ACCOUNT.
PAYMENTS.
Keeper of the Museum aes ose Sub-curator soe eee eee Labour in Garden and Museum Lodge-keeper aS ove Collector and Messenger aaa
Printing :
Report for 1835, including wood engraving er eee 4 6
Miscellaneous
Stationery... Books and Binding :
Books eee Binding eee
Advanced towards greenhouse Miscellaneous eee ane oes Repairs and Furniture ats sas
Garden and Grounds : Buckley, for wall, improvements of entrance, &c.
Carriage, postage, and incidents eee
Gas.and candles
Coke and coal
Purchase and preparation of specimens...
Interest on debt
31 18 °2
—_ — or Bo
3315 6 oe 120. 0° 0 29 11" 6 83 7 0 sce. NOS Sent oe OS Lt 8 ere ana en fetph 3 spe 2: <0 35 10 10 eas ose, (oes. 2 Te 63 10 0
£.617 10 10
GENERAL ACCOUNT.
Ean a's
Received Arrears of for- mer years ... 44 0 0
ae Admission of six members oe. ae OF
BE dsaece.s Donation from Miss Currer ... 25 0 O
Bh oie foitnke Ditto from
Earl Fitzwilliam 21 0 O Balanceduetothe Treasurer1816 13 5
£.1924 13.5
Arrears on Annual Account Arrears on General Account
& @ By Balance due to the Treasurer, 1835 o. L128 tea By Balance due on the Observatory, 1835 130 210 By Balance due on An- nual Account, 1836 ... 65 17 10
£,1924 13 5
iy Ss Gs 58 0 0 110) 0:0
£.168 0 0
PRESENT STATE OF ACCOUNT AS TO THE PURCHASE OF THE MANOR SHORE ESTATE.
Eat Sa Borrowed on mortgage of the premises purchased at 4 per cent. ... --. 2500 0.0 Received half ayear’s rents _ due to the Crown, Lady- day, 1836 20 10 O Received half a year’s rents due to the Society, Michaelmas, 1836 68 14 6 Present deficit 69 ret 0 £.2658 11 6
££. d Paid the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests for half a year’s rent due Lady-day, 1836 3416 0 Paid them for purchase of the ground --- 2500 0 O Paid them for the expenses of conveyance ... --. 30 0 0 Paid sundry expenses in dividing and inclosing the land, roads, &c. 4315 6 Paid half a year’s interest on the mortgage, due No- vember 4th, 1836 500° 0
£.2658 1l 6 JONA. GRAY, TREASURER,
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS TO THE
GENERAL MEETINGS.
Marcu, 1836.—Summaries of Meteorological Observations for the year 1835, at Brandsby, by F. Cholmeley, Esq. ; at Middleton, by the Rev. Mr. Blanchard ; at Moat Hall, by Dr. Wasse; at Huggate, by the Rev. Mr. Rankin ; at York, by Mr. Ford.
Octoser.—Report of Proceedings at the Bristol Meeting of the British Association, by Mr. Newman and Professor Phillips.
NovemBer.—Notices of the Irish Elk, presented to the Museum by G. L. Fox, Esq.
Decemser.—Notices of the lower Jaw of Paleotherium, from the Isle of Wight, &c. by the Rev. W. V. Harcourt, F.R.S.
Account of Mr. Biot’s Views of the claim of Sir Isaac Newton to the Theory of Atmospheric Refraction, by W. L. Newman, F.R.A.S.
January, 1837.—Extracts from the Close Rolls relating to the City of York by Wm. Gray, jun. F.G.S.
A Method of ascertaining the Side of an Octagon to be inscribed in 2 circle of given radius, by W. D. Littledale, Esq.
*' ne Sat Ingleborough, from the S, W. Phillips's Geology of Yorkshire, Vol. II.
DONATIONS
TO
THE SOCIETY’S MUSEUM.
GEOLOGY.
Bristol Institution oo
My. J. F. Brown ... oe
Mr. F. J. Copsie ...
Messrs. Craven and Co. ce
Rev. T, Dury
Rey. T. Egerton, F.G.S.
G. L. Fox
Fine cast of the head and anterior parts of ichthyosaurus.
Specimens of marble, Italy ; horns of red deer and part of the head of an ox, from the River Foss, at High Roans.
Cidaris vagans, and another fossil like a medusa, from the Yorkshire Coast.
Mass of pyritized wood, from near Castle- thorpe, Northamptonshire.
Calamites from millstone grit, Keighley ; spirifera resupinata from the millstone grit series near Brimham.
A series of fossils from the detached basin of lias in Cheshire.
Bones of the Irish elk, from near Water- ford.
From this collection a very large skeleton has been mounted, complete except the hind legs and caudal vertebre. In the size of the bones of the body and ex- tremities, it agrees with the-skeletons in the Royal Dublin Museum, and College
DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 13
Wm. Gray, F.G.S. and Prof. Phillips
Wn. Gray, F.G.S. eee
Miss A. Gurney ...
Rev.
W. V. Harcourt,
F.G.S.
W. Hatfeild, F.G.S.
Rev. T. Lewis, F.G.S.
Prof.
Phillips, G.S.
F.R.S.,
Museum, Edinburgh ; but its horns are longer, measuring 12 ft. 8 in. from tip to tip by the sweep. The vertebral column has been intentionally placed 6 inches lower than the Dublin speci- men. The animal thus stands 6 feet over the shoulders, and its horns rise 10 feet from the floor. There is among the specimens the head of a female with- out horns.
Fossils from the Yorkshire coast, including new species of conchifera, hamites, &c. from Speeton; plants, crustacea, &c. from the oolitic system.
New fossils, from Brandsby ; hamites, &c- Speeton ; large shelly masses from the Kelloways rock, Scarborough.
Bones of elephant, deer, &c. from Happis- burgh ; ostrea canaliculata, &c. from the chalk of Norfolk.
Series of fossils from the fresh-water and other formations of the Isle of Wight, in- cluding a cast of the lower jaw, right side, of paleotherium, with six teeth in the side: large mass of bone supposed to be part of the pelvis of iguanodon, &c.
Series of fossils from the mountain lime- stone of the Isle of Man, including am- monites sphericus ; marsupites, spongia, &e. from Bridlington.
Mass of fish bones, &c. from the Ludlow formation (Silurian system).
Remains of fishes, from Burdie House ; of the skin and bones of a reptile? from the limestone of Ardwick, near Man- chester ; neuropteris cordata, from Le-~ botwood ; halonia, from South Shields ; cast of caulopteris Phillipsii from Ca- merton; fossils from the mountain limestone of Ireiand, Yorkshire, &c.
14 DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM.
J. Prestwich, F.G.S. ..,_ A large series of fossil shells and plants from the limestone and coal measures of Coalbrookdale, with an explanatory section and notices.
Leonard Simpson, Esq. ... Shells from the London clay, cut through on the Birmingham railway.
Dr. Wake ... eee -«» A bivalve shell, from the Himalaya.
Mr. J. Yeoman ... ... Fore and hind paddles of ichthyosaurus. MINERALOGY. Mr. J. F. Brown ... ... Mass of crystallized quartz.
Rev. J. Dunnington ... Pyrites and cale spar from a ‘fault’ in coal measures near Barnsley.
Rev. W. Hincks, F.L.S..... Quartz from Trenton Falls, U. S. Mr. W. Trueman ee. Crystallized sulphate of lime from a col-
liery in Durham.
ZOOLOGY.
T Allis 17%: yas ... Three species of columbade ; eighty fishes from the Mediterranean (in spirits).
Wm. Hatfeild, F.G.S. ... Heron, gull, eared grebe, siskin. Achatina zebra.
Rey. W. Hincks, F.L.S..... Terebra vittata and t. lineolata.
Miss Jane Hird ... ... Phaeton ethereus, m. and 7.
DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 15
Capt. E. Markham ... 137 Australian birds, including the lyre tail, m. and f. (menura); rifle bird (promerops superbus) m. and /f. ; Columba magnifica, c. dilophus, phaeton, psittacide, &c.
T. Meynell, Esq.jun. ... A collection of foreign insects of the order lepidoptera.
Rev. F. O. Morris, F.L.S. A collection of British insects.
Miss Phillips... .». Fungia lima and fungia pileus.
E. Strickland, Esq. ... Faithful jacana; bustard.
Mr. John Taylor ... ... Specimen of cerambyx in wood, from Africa.
B. Wake, M.D. ... 29 Birds from the Himalaya, including © myophonus horsfieldii ; bucco grandis ; garrulus bispecularis, g. lanceolatus ; pica erythrorhynchus, &c.
Flying squirrel.
BOTANY.
T. Backhouse’... ... Stem of tree fern (cybodium Billaudierii ). §. Stutchbury, A.L.S. ... A series of epiphytic orchidee.
ANTIQUITIES AND COINS.
Rev. C. Wellbeloved ... Stand for the Abbey Mortar, carved after a knot in the ceiling of York Minster, of the same date as the mortar, from minster oak.
Mrs. Reeve... ... Medal, struck at Geneva, 1835, to com-
memorate the centenary of the Reforma- tion,
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
Society of Arts... ..- Transactions, Vol. L. Part 2. Royal Astronomical Society Astronomical Observations made at Para~ matta, fol. F. Baily, F.R.S. ... .« On the Aberdeen Standard Scale. British Association for the Fifth Report of Transactions. Advancement of Science E. Charlesworth, F.G.S. Print of fossil chelonia from Harwich. P. Duncan, F.L.S. ... Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum. Mr. G. Edwards ... ... Pamphlet relating to the State of the British Museum. Geological Society ..- Proceedings, 1835. Natural History Society of Catalogue of British Birds in the collec- Manchester tion of the Society. Mechanics’ Institute, Man- Report for 1835. chester Statistical Society of Man- Report of Results of Inquiries on Educa~ chester tion. Nat. Hist. Soc. of Shrop- First Report of Proceedings. shire and North Wales Wm. Priestley, Esq. .... The Craven Glossary, published by the Rev. W. Carr, interleaved with MS. Notes, containing the Etymology of the words, by Mr. Priestley.
Hull Lit. and Phil. Soc. ; Leeds Lit. and Phil. Soc.; Y Scarbro’ Lit. and Phil. Soc.; Whitby Lit. and \ Phil. Soc. -
John Wood, Esq. ..- Large Maps of the Stars, published by the
Society for the diffusion of Useful Know- ledge, with an Explanatory Volume.
Reports of Proceedings for 1835.
Purchased with the dona~ Agassiz, Recherches sur les poissons fos~ tion of Her Royal High- __siles (in continuation) ; Goldfuss, Die ness the Duchess of Kent __ petrefacten Europas (in continuation) ;
Yarrell’s British Fishes.
MEMBERS
ELECTED FROM JANUARY, 1836, TO JANUARY, 1837.
Fenton, William, Pulford, York.
Fox, George Lane, Bramham Park, Wetherby.
Harper, John, York.
Hornor, Edward, Fulford Grange, York.
Kemplay, Christopher, York.
Leadbitter, John, York. Lowther, John Henry, M.P. Swillington, Ferrybridge. Munby, Joseph, York.
Wilkinson, Bartholomew Thomas, York.
Woodall, George, York.
HONORARY MEMBER.
Stutchbury, Samuel, F.L.S., &c. Curator of the Bristol Museum.
(Thomas Wilson and Sons, High-Ousegate, York.)
Ver satcal 13 MAR i886
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Dorkshire Philosophical Society,
ANNUAL REPORT
FOR
MDCCCXXXVII.
ae
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
OF THE
Porkshire Philosophical Societp
MDCCCXXXVII.
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
FEBRUARY 6TH, 1838.
THOMAS WILSON AND SONS, HIGH-OUSEGATE.
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1838.
CONTENTS.
List oF THE TrustEES, Patrons, Orricers, &c.
REPORT or THE Councin... TREASURER’s ANNUAL ACCOUNTS SciENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS
eoe
DoNATIONS TO THE MusEuM ....
DonaTiIons TO THE LIBRARY ...
New MEMBERS ...
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 being, of the Society established at York, called “ Tur Yorxsutre Puirosoruicat Society,” for the use of the said Society, the sum of to be paid out of such part of my personal estate, us I may legally charge therewith. [Or here enumerate the effects or property intended to be 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 Ewecutors for the said legacy.
TRUSTEES
oF THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.RS., F.S.A.
EARL DE GREY.
HON. anp VERY REV. THE DEAN OF LICHFIELD, FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ. F.S.A. ROBERT DENISON, ESQ.
REV. W. VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S. WILLIAM HATFEILD, ESQ. F.G.S. WILLIAM LAWSON, ESQ. F-S.A. EUSTACHIUS STRICKLAND, ESQ. RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
PATRONESSES
OF
Che Vorkshire Philosophical Society.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. Her Rorat Hicuness Tar DUCHESS OF KENT.
PATRONS.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R:S.
EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F.R.S.
VISCOUNT MORPETH.
LORD STOURTON.
LORD WHARNCLIFFE.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
PRESIDENT :
Tue Earn Fitzwitiiam, F.R.S.
VICE-PESIDENTS :
Grorcre Laxer Fox. Henry Preston.
Rev. S. Creyke. Tuomas Barstow.
S, ei. EELSEey.
Wan. Gray, Jun. F.G.S. Rev. C. WELLBELOVED. R. J. Tuomeson.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. vil
Elected 1836 os
Elected 1837.....
Elected 1838.....
TREASURER:
Rosert Davies.
COUNCIL:
. JAMES Barser. H. S. Betcomser, M.D. Wirt1am BLaNnsHarp. Rev. Tuomas Ecerron, F.G.S. . Epwarp E cern. Rev. Joun Kenrick. Evstacuius STRICKLAND. JoHn Wo.LsTENHOLME. Grorce Gotpit, M.D. Witiram Harreizp, F.G.S. Tuomas Meyne tt, Jun. F.L.S.
Henry SMALES.
SECRETARIES; Joun Puiturrs, F.R.S., G.S.
Henry Rosinson.
Vill OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
CURATORS:
Rev. Joann GRAHAM ... GEOLOGY.
Wirtiam Hatrertp, F.G.S. ... Mrneraoey.
JAMES ATKINSON oe .. ComPpaRaTIVE ANATOMY. Tuomas ALLIs ...
Rev. J. B. Grauam
Rev. I.J.D. Preston, F.C.P.S.
Tuomas MEYNELL, jun. F.L.S.
\ ORNITHOLOGY.
\ ENTOMOLOGY.
Rev. W. Hincxs, F.L.S. ... BoTany. Rev. C. WELLBELOVED ... ANTIQUITIES AND CoIns. JoserpH Munpsy ... a .-. LIBRARY.
KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM: Joun Puriutrs, F.R.S., G.S.
SUB-CURATOR:
Henry BAInes.
REPORT
THE COUNCIL.
Tue Report of the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Philo- sophical Society, during the past year, will be as brief as the necessity of clearly explaining the present condition and pro- spects of the Institution will allow. It is gratifying to state as a general result, that in the number of its members, the state of its finances, and the condition of its museum, the Society has never been more fortunately circumstanced. From the measures now in progress there is reason to conclude that this prosperous condition may be prolonged; and it will de- pend upon the decision of this meeting whether the facilities of access, already enjoyed by the public, shall be further augmented, and new attempts made to enlarge the power and efficiency of the institution.
The Donations to the Museum and Library have been numerous and valuable; and the Council, encouraged by the admission of many new members, has ventured to add a consi- derable number of specimens by purchase on favourable terms. |
The most remarkable additions to the Geological depart- ment are from the fossiliferous (often called transition) strata of Christiania, * and those contemporaneous or more recent strata in Ireland and Devonshire which have for some time furnished matter of discussion between eminent British geolo- gists. + Many contributions have also been received from
* Collected and presented by the Rev. W. Bilton.
+ Presented by Mr. Bilton, Mr. Weaver, and Rey. D. Williams. BR
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the strata of the Yorkshire coast, and a few purchases have been authorised, to supply particular desiderata. It is hoped that the Systematic Catalogue of the whole geological col- lection may be completed in the present year.
The collection of Zoological specimens has been enlarged and improved in almost every department. Hyrax capensis, lycaon tricolor, and many other interesting quadrupeds from the Cape of Good Hope,* phalangista vulpina, the pigmy antelope, ornithorynchus paradoxus, and other donations, aug- ment the collection of mammalia to 120 specimens, and re- quire some further provision of cases for their proper exhi- bition and arrangement.
Great additions have been made to the Ornithological col- lection of the Society, both by gift and purchase. The most valuable of the former consist in specimens of the splendid Indian birds, lophophorus impeyanus, and tragopan satyrus, presented by Archdeacon Corbet. Since the last Annual Meeting no less than 257 specimens have been mounted by the Sub-curator, in a very satisfactory style, and the Curators hope soon to commence the formation of a general catalogue of the Foreign Birds for the use of the members.
To furnish a satisfactory basis for a new cabinet of British insects, Professor Phillips has placed his whole collection at the disposal of the Curators of that department; an example followed by Mr. Allis, and Mr. W. Gray, jun. ‘The arrange- ment of these collected treasures has been commenced by Mr. Meynell and Mr. W. Hewitson, and is now proceeding.
The Curator of the Botanical department has availed him- self of the means which have been provided for the preser- vation of the collections of dried plants; the portion of the herbarium which had been completed is now properly placed ; and he is proceeding with the remainder as fast as circum- stances will allow.
The Garden has been greatly improved during the past
* Presented by Mrs. R. Markham.
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year; and in addition to the greenhouse, which is already well filled, a valuable present of tropical orchideous plants has led to the construction of a small stove, expressly adapted to the cultivation of that interesting tribe of plants, of which the society possesses about 40 species.
The Antiquarian collections have been increased by some additional Egyptian relics received from Colonel Harcourt, and by several interesting English and Irish coins the gift of S. Kenrick, Esq. 'To the Directors of the York and North Midland Railway Company, the society is indebted for a curious Roman altar, lately found in the line of the railway, near the Mount. It is sculptured on every side, but the figures are so much effaced by time, that in the absence of every thing like an inscription, it is difficult if not impossible to ascertain what the figures were designed to represent. From Joseph Bonomi, Esq., the Society has received a cast of a large and highly interesting Assyrian monument, sculptured, with several others, three of which are Egyptian, on the rocks in the vicinity of Beyrout; representing an Assyrian king, holding in his left hand a staff, “ the antique symbol of regal authority ;” and having on his right hand the Assyrian dove, above which are certain astronomical signs and symbols. Nearly the whole of the figure, as well as the arched inclosure in which it stands, is covered with an inscription in the arrow headed character, in many places well preserved. *
The Library has been ornamented by the gift of Piranesi’s etchings of the columns of Trajan and Antoninus, and among the collections of books and transactions of learned societies, it is the pleasing duty of the Council to notice with gratitude the liberal bequest of the late George Hodgson, Esq., of Bridlington. ‘The magnificent work of Audubon is near its termination ; and it remains to be considered what portion of
* See Landseer’s Sabean Researches, Sect. IX. + Presented by Michael Taylor, Esq. BQ
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the annual expenditure thus saved may be applied to the pur- chase of books of reference, for the assistance of the Curators of natural history and antiquities.
The Monthly Meetings have been less completely supplied with scientific essays than heretofore; a circumstance which is the more to be regretted, when the success which has lately attended the Evening Conversations is considered. Out of the large mass of communications which have thus contri- buted to the instruction of the members, the Council proposes to select for publication those memoirs which, by their bear- ing on the natural history and antiquarian monuments of Yorkshire, or their importance in general science, appear ' worthy of being placed in the hands of the members, and of- fered to the public. The Transactions oF THE YORKSHIRE PurLosopuicat Sociery, thus limited in plan, can never offend by their extent; but if frequently published in a modest form, and at a low price, may powerfully direct the inquiries of the members to the scientific objects of local interest for which the institution was originally founded, and by some contri- butions to the general amount of useful knowledge, deserve the approbation of the public.
It is further proposed that a short ntagremeand OF THE
ConTENTs oF THE Museum shall be speedily printed, for the assistance of the members, and the numerous strangers who now visit the institution. _ The Frora or Yorxsuire, by which title it is proposed to* designate the work on the botany of the county some time since commenced by the Sub-curator, is in the press, and will be published before the conclusion of the year.
During the past year, death has removed from us several members, and among them one who has left a vacancy in the ranks of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and in the hearts of its members, not easily to be filled. Generous in his benefactions, untiring in useful labour, prodigal of time and various knowledge for the public good, the memory of
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My. Jonathan Gray will long be dear to a larger circle than our own; the public voice may raise a tribute to a worthy citizen, but all that here surrounds us is a lasting monument of our philosophic friend.
Pressed by the weight of professional business, Mr. Wm. Gray, jun. has found it necessary to withdraw that active assistance which for eleven years he has rendered as Secre- tary to the Institution.
From causes nearly similar, Professor Phillips, at an earlier period of the year, finding it impossible to give his attention to the Society’s affairs for the period, or at the times, stipulated in the arrangement commenced in 1825, replaced in the hands of the Society the trust which had been committed to him ;—but the Council, unwilling to break a connexion which has now subsisted for twelve years, proposed to him to con- tinue the general direction of the scientific affairs of the So- ciety, without any limitation as to time.
The Council has requested Mr. Robert Davies to accept the office of Treasurer, and Mr. H. Robinson to act as joint Secretary with Professor Phillips; nominations which, from the high character of those gentlemen, the Council entertains no doubt this meeting will confirm.
The expenditure of the year has been great ; but much that was required to be done has been accomplished; and there has been no waste. Independently of an augmentation of the salary of the Sub-curator, which has indeed been fully repaid by the additional duties undertaken and executed by him; the finances have had to bear the cost of a portion of the new insect cabinets, of the fitting up of the shelves for the col- lections of plants, of mounting the skeletons of the whale and the Irish elk, of repairing the Roman and monastic walls, and constructing a small hothouse for plants of considerable value. These things were necessary; but the Council has gone further, and for the first time during many years, has expended in the purchase and preparation of specimens on B3
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less a sum than £84. The justification of this step will be best given by reference to the collection of birds, now con- taining 1200 prepared specimens,—to the geological mu- seum,—and the list of new members; for it was from this source that the Council derived encouragement to do this year what it is to be hoped may often be repeated. Notwithstanding these large expenses, the balance against the Society on the general account is reduced by nearly £86.; but on the other hand the deficiency on the account of the Manor Shore has been augmented £32. This arises from causes which there is no rashness in saying will not be repeated.
In relinquishing to the members whom you may choose for the following year, the further governance of the Society’s affairs, the Council wishes to point out how far the proceedings of the past year or existing circumstances are likely to in- fluence the adoption of particular measures.
There is no reason to expect that larger pecuniary means will be at the disposal of the new Council, than those which have been expended in 1837; and they will probably have to bear some considerable charges: it will be requisite, therefore, to avoid all unnecessary outlay.
An arrangement has been made for the purchase of Mr. Allis’s whole collection of skeletons and other preparations of birds, &c., on terms more advantageous than would have been accorded to any other purchaser.
Anatomical preparations of animals have always been found of the highest importance in zoology. Upon this solid foun- dation Cuvier rested his knowledge and secured his fame. Of such preparations none are more popularly attractive, or philosophically valuable, than the skeletons of vertebral ani- mals. In lectures before the Society, their utility has been abundantly manifest, both in illustrating the habits of living races, and decyphering the monuments of ancient nature. Mr. Allis’s extensive and beautiful series of skeletons has been declared by competent judges to be one of the most con-
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spicuous ornaments of the museum; and in determining to give effect to the recommendation in the last year’s Report, the only hesitation felt by the Council regarded the prudence of pledging the Society’s resources to the extent of £350.
In this difficulty the liberal offer of Earl Fitzwilliam to head a subscription in aid of the Society’s funds was gratefully accepted, and the Council, not doubting that the members would gladly second the example of their President, authorised a committee ‘to conclude the purchase. The meeting will learn with satisfaction that the sum of £230. has been already subscribed for this object, and there is reason to hope the supply is not yet exhausted.
Among the subjects requiring attention during the ensuing year, the construction of new cases to hold the collection of quadrupeds is prominent. The Council obtained estimates for fitting up the walls of the mineral room, which is the most appropriate situation ; but they resolved to refer to the Annual Meeting the question when the work should be undertaken. If furnished with cases on three sides, that room would afford for many years abundant space for the augmentations which may reasonably be expected in the zoological collections. There is no immediate need for further disbursements in new cases, except to complete the insect cabinets ; little need be spent in repairs or purchases; £20. a-year may be deducted from the purchase of books ; the Manor Shore will eventually become a source of profit; and many new candidates have announced their desire to join the Society. All these circumstances are favourable to the determination of fitting up the mineral room, to the extent proposed, immediately ; and though an expense of £200. is not to be rashly incurred, the meeting will recol- lect that the expenditure cannot be long delayed, if the dona- tions which the Society continually receives are to be exhibited in an order acceptable to the student, satisfactory to the donor, and gratifying to the public.
B 4
ANNUAL ACCOUNT.
RECEIPTS.
Annual Subscriptions from 223 Members at 2/. each Ditto from 6 at 12. eos
Annual Donations—Mrs. Danby Sir C. Ibbetson
eee eee
From Ladies, being Annual Subscribers For Keys of Garden
For Gas consumed at Evening Meeting
For Tickets of Admission, deducting expense of Sale Balance due to the Treasurer
wow Socso oe
ANNUAL ACCOUNT. 9
PAYMENTS. OG es 8s Rent and Taxes: Crown. cee ae aes wee Le Oo ee Corporation eee an Sabi Aa ae Water ... ase : ce a Oo Poor, &c. ..- sae axe ws, 14 19:9 Insurance ... eee eee ats Pee os | raat 31.15 IL Salaries and Wages : Keeper of the Museum vet ety 100 0 0 Sub-curator a ses oe we tO oO “O Servant and Cleaning eve ose wn) x20) 05,10 Lodge-keeper eos eee ie i's 10° O_O Labourer ... tae eid ite 2 GO-1B 40 Collector ... ine ise tee see ed LO 237 19 O Printing me ft ase Re. ad io SEG Stationery ° PP 17°90 Books and Binding : BOOKR «sr 06 dee one éez oot ROA TAL 3 6 Binding ... “se ja ris ree. $7738: 30 —— 42 9 6 Gardens and Grounds (including repairs of Multangular Tower) ... 38 7 3 Repairs of Furniture (including Glass for the Entomological Cabinets) 66 16 0 Incidents : Coals and Coke tea aia as ovey 0 LEO Gas aan ne ib = oes ge, | ceo O Miscellaneous pee ost ate ASS Si ey edi: — +4613 7 Purchase and preparation of Specimens oF a 84 4-0
Interest on debt, including the floating debt on the Sie Shore... 70 6 6
GENERAL aie te wile Received Arrears of for- mer years 49 0 0 eseeeee--e. Admission of 18 members ... 54 0 O -+seeeseeoe Compositions of 4 members ... 80 0 0
Balance due to the Trea- surer ge too ae: 2
£.1913 18 2
—_—
Arrears on this Account
ACCOUNT.
Sei Ce Balance due to the Trea- surer, 1836 . 1816 13 5 Ditto on Annual Account
of 1837 97 4 9
£.1913 18 2
SS
wae 103 0 O
PRESENT STATE OF THE ACCOUNT RELATIVE, TO ...
THE PURCHASE OF THE MANOR SHORE ESTATE.
he it dh Received a year’s rents, due Michaelmas, 1837 .- 14410 0, Debt in January, 1838 ... 101 7 6
Ce ee ee
£.245 17 6
—_. ———_—
Se ae Paid a year’s interest on 2,5002. borrowed on mort- gage =e FOO 30: Paid expense of the mort- gage a 15 0 0 Paid for repairs of houses, formation of roads, and fencing of allotments 6110 6 Debt-in January, 1837 ... 69 7-0
—
£. 24517 6
SS
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE ANNUAL MEETING
In consequence of Notices given according to the Laws of the Society.
1. To permit the holding of Horticultural Meetings, during the year 1838, in the Gardens of the Society.
2. To continue for the year 1838 the regulation whereby strangers are admitted to the Museum and Gardens of the
Society, on presenting a ticket, price 1s.
3. To authorise the Council to give free admission to the Museum and Gardens of the Society to all persons, on such days, and under such regulations, as the Council may
appoint.
RESOLUTION
ADOPTED BY THE ANNUAL MEETING, Grounded on a Recommendation in the Report of the Council.
To authorise the Council to expend a sum not exceeding £200. in fitting up the Mineral Room with cases for the
reception of zoological specimens.
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS
TO THE
GENERAL MEETINGS.
Marcu 7, 1837.—On the Geological Structure of the country near Ingleton, Kirby Lonsdale, and Lancaster, by Professor Phillips, F.R.S., G.S.
Arnrit 4.—Notice of some Fossil Fishes from the marl slate of Ferryhill, Durham, in reference to the discoveries of M. Agassiz, by W. Gray, jun. F.G.S.
Oct. 3.—Reports of the Proceedings of the British Association at Liverpool, by Mr. Allis, Mr. W. Gray, Rev. W. Hincks, Professor Phillips, and Rev. W. Taylor.
Dec. 5.—Notices of New Electrical Experiments, by the Rev. W. Taylor.
Jan. 2, 1838.—On some peculiarities in the Skeleton of the Alba- tross, by T. Allis.
Catalogue of Molluscous Animals observed near York, by the Rev. W. Hincks, F.L.S.
DONATIONS
TO
THE SOCIETYS MUSEUM.
GEOLOGY.
Miss Rest. ... Rev. W. Bilton, F.G.S. ..
Sir George Cayley, Bart....
Lieut. Carter, R.N.
H. P. Cholmeley, Esq. ...
Mr. I. Deck L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. F.R.S.
Rey. T. Egerton, F.G.S. ...
Mr. Ellison nar
Pentacrinus caput meduse (Leppington).
Series of specimens from the culmiferous and paint beds of Bideford (N. Devon); series of rock specimens and organic remains illustrative of the geology of Christiania.
Cast of a gigantic ammonite from Cayton Bay (diameter 234 inches).
Teredo antenaute, Aldborough, Suffolk.
Large ammonite from the coralline oolite of Stonegrave.
Casts of encrinites moniliformis and of hamites articulatus.
Masses of sinuous concretionary coal from Swansea.
Coniferous wood from the lias of Whitby ; cololites from Solenhofen and the green sand of Kent ; copper ore in red sand- stone on the line of an anticlinal axis in Shropshire ; ochre from Shot- over.
Producta conoides, and other fossils from the mountain limestone of South Wales.
14 DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM.
Earl Fitzwilliam ... das
G. L. Fox, Esq., M. P. ...
Mr. Gibbs ... bs bes
Fossil shells (pinna pectunculus, &c.) from Bognor.
Lepidodendra and other fossil plants from Kippax and Bardsey.
Dendritical slate from Ingleton, and other specimens.
Mass of flexible limestone from Marsden, rocks, near Sunderland.
Mr. John Gowland es Fishes from the marl slate of Ferryhill,
Wn. Gray, jun., F.G.S. ...
Col. H. V. Harcourt
Professor Phillips re
Miss Phillips
S. Powell, Esq.
R. Ripley, Esq.
J. Thompson, Esq.
T. Weaver, Esq., F.G.S....
Rey. D, Williams, F.G.S.
Durham, including platysomus stria- tus, paleoniscus magnus, &c. Crustacea, &c. from the strata of the Yorkshire coast; zamia and several shells from the Dogger Beds. Large bones of saurians from Speeton. Fossils from Northamptonshire.
Large geode from the magnesian con- glomerate near Mendip ; several species of ammonites from the oolite of Dun- dry, &c. ‘
Three specimens of ophiura from the marlstone of Robin Hood’s Bay.
Crystallized carbonate of lime from Farn- ham.
Nodule of lias with fish-scales; fossil plants from near Whitby ; ammonites.
Pecten cinctus, from near Nettleton, Lincolnshire.
Series of specimens of rocks and organic remains from the transition and carbo- niferous tracts of the South of Ireland.
Series of fossils from N. Devon.
ZOOLOGY.
T. Allis...
Miss Best ... we Sie
John Bleckly woe | Lieut. Carter, R. N. Sir George Cayley, Bart. ...
Ven. Archdeacon Corbet, D.D.
Earl of Derby
G. L. Fox, Esq.
Wm. Gray, jun. «. eee Mr. Hill ia Rev. W. Hincks, F.L.S. ... Mr. Jackson
Wn. Kirby
Mrs. R. Markham
Hyena, phalangista vulpina, racoon, three coatimondis, rattel, jackal, seal, eight monkeys, mandrill, pigmy antelope, panther, ocelot, two civet cats, one-eyed pig, bat, agouti, &c.
Moor buzzard, golden-eye, teal, female sooter, golden plover, and ring dottrel.
Selections from his British insects.
Pinna ; esculent snail from Nice ; several insects from Nice.
A decoy duck.
Recent teredines, from the Suffolk coast.
Rostrum of saw-fish and skin of boa.
Trogopan satyrus ; lophophorus impeya- nus; scoter.
A black swan.
Haw-finch.
Selections from his British insects.
Six British birds.
Echinus from New Holland.
A stuffed ram.
Austrian pratincole, crane, and crested titmouse.
Many quadrupeds from the Cape of Good Hope, including lycaon trico- lor, hyrax capensis (the hind feet tri- . dactyle), caracal, the gemse bok, the striped antelope, skulls of the hart beest, &c. ; also several birds.
16 DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM AND GARDEN.
T. Meynell, Esq. jun.F.L.S. Selected British insects.
Mr. Peters ... le ... Tympanum of whale’s ear.
Professor Phillips, F.R.S. | His whole collection of British Insects, chiefly collected near York, from 1825 to 1835.
R. Ripley, Esq. .. ... Several birds from Lancaster Sound,
— Scott, Esq. (Norwich) | Ornithorhynchus paradoxus.
T. C, Wood, Esq. ... .. Several British birds. BOTAN Y. Miss Best ... ihe ... Cotton plant from Nice (Asclepias Syria- cus.)
Mr. Cameron, Birmingham 70 Greenhouse and hardy plants. Botanical Garden Mr. Lowe, Nurseryman, 12 Epiphytic orchidee, Clapton. ; Francis Maude, Esq. ... Nepenthes distillatoria. Dr. Wake ... oo ... Seeds from the East Indies.
* ,* Donations of soil, &c. for the Garden, have been received from Mr. J. F. Brown and Mr. Oldfield, and part of the cost of the new Hothouse was defrayed by Mr. Eust. Strickland.
COINS AND ANTIQUITIES.
Joseph Bonomi, Esq. ... Cast of a Chaldean figure, sculptured in relief on the rock near the mouth of the river Lycus, (Nahr el Kelb) near Beyrout in Syria.
Col. H. V. Harcourt _... Antiquities from the Catacombs of Egypt.
Samuel Kenrick, Esq.F.A.S. Coin of Sithric, king of Dublin; four
Irish groats of Ph. and Mary; Irish penny of John; groat of Edw. IIL, struck at York, and thirty-two other coins.
Mr. G. Milner, jun. ... Ancient seal of the ‘Companie of Merchant Adventurers of Kingston-on-Hull.’
Rey. Wm. Parker, Riccall Various implements found near Thorne, in making a new cut for the river Went.
Professor Phillips ... «-- Coin of Tetricus, found on the Manor Shore.
Eust. Strickland, Esq. .... Three coins found on the Manor Shore.
Rey. C. Wellbeloved _.... A Saxon sceattor and various other coins.
York and North Midland A Roman altar, found near Holdgate Railway Company Lane.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. Bradwell soe -» Ancient gunlock from Sheriff Hutton Castle. Mr. Hartop ace --» Specimens of the effects of an experiment
in the iron furnaces at Elsecar. Fragments of vitrified forts, Scotland. Mrs. R. Markham .»» Chain armour, and ancient implements. Tomahawk and arrow heads from Pen« sylvania, Cc
DONATIONS
Professor Bache
Cambridge Phil. Society ...
S. Duncan, Esq. ... Rey. T. Exley (the Author)
Prof. Forbes (the Author) Geological Society ... sie H. Heuland, Esq.
J. Hogg, Esq. (the Author)
La Societé d’Histoire Na- turelle de Geneve Leeds Lit. & Phil. Society
Rev. F. O. Morris...
Professor Phillips (the Author)
H. Robinson, Esq.
TO THE LIBRARY.
Proceedings of the Franklin Institute, in reference to Explosion of Steam Boilers.
Transactions of the Society, Vol. VI.
Catalogue of the Museum.
Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum.
Facts in Chemistry explained mathe- matically.
Researches on Heat.
Proceedings of the Society, 48, 49, 50.
Description d’une Collection de Mineraux, &c., &c., par A. Levy, 3 tomes 8vo, et Planches, 4to.
His Work on two Roman Inscriptions relative to the Conquest of Britain by Claudius Cesar.
Memoires de la Societé, Tome VII.
Transactions of the Society, Vol. I. Part 1.
Report of the Doncaster Lyceum.
Geology, Vol. I., (Lardner’s Cyclopedia.)
Print of the Irish Elk in the Museum.
Ptolemy’s Ancient Geography, Amster- dam, 1730.
History of York, 2 vols. 8vo, 1788.
Yorkshire Freeholders’ Poll Book, 1741, and 1807.
Marshall’s Rural Economy of Yorkshire, containing North and East-Riding Glos- sary, 2 vols. 8vo. )
Yorkshire Directory, 1828.
Marshall’s Review of the Reports of the Board of Agriculture, 5 vols. 8yo, York, 1808.
Views of Churches in York, 4to, 1830,
Evelyn’s Architecture.
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 19
Royal Society of Edinburgh Transactions of the Society, Vol. XIV. Swansea Lit.& Phil.Society Report for 1836 and 1837. Mr. Michael Taylor ... Piranesi’s Etchings of the Columns of Trajan and Antoninus. The Society of Arts ..» Transactions for 1836, Vol. LI., Part 1. Shropshire Nat. Hist. Soc. Reports for 1835 and 1836. Warwickshire Nat. Hist. & First Report of the Society. Archeological Society Right Hon. W. Wickham Gaudin, Flora Helvetica, 7 tomes, 8vo, Zurich, 1828—33. Murith, Guide du Botaniste dans le Va- lais, 4to, Lausanne, 1810.
SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS
ELECTED FROM JANUARY, 1837, TO DECEMBER, 1837.
Munby, Joseph, York. Woodall, George, York. Harper, John, York. Hornor, Edward, York. Rawdon, William Frederick, M.D., York. Shann, George, M.D., T'adcaster. Cayley, Rev. Arthur, York. Cholmeley, Henry Philip, Brandsby. Greame, Yarburgh, Sewerby, Bridlington. - Thirlwall, Rev. Connop, F.G.S., &c. Kirby-Under- dale. Richardson, Henry, York. Hacket, Francis Beynon, York. Lockwood, William, York. Norrison, John, York. Pearce, Robert Rouiere, York. Milbank, Mark, Thorpe Perrow, Bedale. Staveley, Thomas Kitchingman, Old Sleningford, Ripon.
NEW MEMBERS.
Prickett, Rev. Marmaduke, F.S.A. Bridlington.
Dawnay, Hon. William Henry, Beningbrough, Fork.
Hewitson, William Chapman.
Gamlen, Rev. S., Bossal, York.
Barlow, Edmund, York.
MEMBERS ELECTED JAN. AND FEB. 1838.
Blyth, Edwin Verden, York.
Allen, William, York.
Wilkinson, Rev. William John, York.
Fletcher, Caleb, York.
Hey, Rev. William, York.
Dundas, Hon. John Charles, M.P., Aske, Richmond. Anderson, Edward Robert, York. Watson, Robert, York.
Williams, Caleb, York.
(Thomas W iison and Sons, High-Ousegate, York.)
13 MAR 1886
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
ANNUAL REPORT
FOR MDCCCXXXVIII.
PRESENTED FEBRUARY 5TH, 1839.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE COUNCIL
OF THE
YORKS IHL
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
FOR
MDCCCXXXVIII.
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
THOMAS WILSON AND SONS, HIGH-OUSEGATE,
eee
1839.
CONTENTS.
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List oF THE TrusTEEs, Patrons, Orricers, &. ... V REPORT or tue Councit... ‘ay = es ara Museum bus sas le ed es os 2 Coins anpD ANTIQUITIES ove aye ese ene 4 Liprary sxe ose nee ee ct oe 5 Boranic GarpEN ai ose ma vee pee 5
_ Antievartan MonuMENTS ase one ove oe v4 TREASURER’s ACCOUNT ... ae eas aor eee ANALYSIS OF REecEIPTts AND PAYMENTS bes tee Y REsotuTions oF ANNUAL MEETING ... te bie oO REsTORATION OF THE HosPITIUM ize ae vee Meee MEMBERS ELECTED In 1838 _... A sae BP A SciENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS ... “ns ia odonth aa Donations To THE MusEum ... a a cools Sk scscesessceeeee TO THE GARDEN, &C. oy . OA
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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 being, of the Society established at York, called “* Tue YorxsHire Puiwosopuican Society,” 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 be bequeathed.] And J 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,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT.
HIS GRACE, EDWARD, LORD ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
GEORGE, EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G.
CHARLES WILLIAM, EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S., F.S.A.
THOMAS PHILIP, EARL DE GREY.
HON. ann VERY REV. HENRY HOWARD, D.D. DEAN CF LICHFIELD.
FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ. F.S.A. ROBERT DENISON, ESQ.
REV. WILLIAM VERNON IIARCOURT, F.R.S. WILLIAM HATFEILD, ESQ. F.G.S. WILLIAM LAWSON, ESQ. F.S.A. EUSTACHIUS STRICKLAND, ESQ. RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
PATRONESSES
OF
The Vorkshire Philosophical Society. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. Heer Royrat Hicuness Toe DUCHESS OF KENT.
PATRONS.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R:S.
EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F.R:S.
THE VISCOUNT MORPETH.
THE LORD STOURTON.
THE LORD WHARNCLIFFE.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1838.
PRESIDENT:
Earyt Fitzwitiiam, F.R.S.
VICE-PRESIDENTS: Cuartes HENEAGE ELsLey, Wittram Gray, Jun. F.G.S. Rev. CuHarLtes WELLBELOVED, Ricuarp JoHn THOMPSON, JaMEs ATKINSON,
Hon. Witttam Henry Dawnay. Rev. Tuomas Ecerrton, F.G.S.
Rev. Witt1am VERNon Harcourt, F.R.S.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. Vii
TREASURER:
Rozvert Davizs.
-COUNCIL: Elected 1837...... Epwarp Eten,
Rev. Joun Kennricr, Evustacuius STRICKLAND; JoHN WoLsTENHOLME.
Elected 1838...... Grorcr Gotpir, M.D. Wirttram Hatreitp, F.G.S. Tuomas MryneEtL, gun., F.L.S. Henry SMALEs.
Elected 1839...... Epwin Verpen Biytu, Henry Purvip CHouMELEY, | Rev. STEPHEN CREYKE, Rev. W. H. Drxon, F.S.A.
SECRETARIES:
Proressor Puitties, F.R.S.
Henry Rosinson.
Vili OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY
CURATORS:
Rev. Joun GranHam... ... . GEOLOGY.
Wiiiiam Harreitp, F.G.S. MINERALOGY.
JamMrEs ATKINSON... ... ComPaRATIVE ANATOMY. Tuomas MEYNELL, Jun. F.L.S. Rev.J. J.D. Preston, F.C.P.S.
Rev. Witiiam Hincks, F.L.S. Botany.
\ ENnrTomotoey.
Rev. CHarRLES WELLBELOVED ANTIQUITIES AND Coins. JosEPH Munpy... salt «es LIBRARY.
JoHN Harwoop aids ... LABORATORY.
KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM:
JouN Puiturrs, F.R.S., G.S., &e. Professor of Geology in King’s College, London.
SUBCURATOR:
Mr. Henry BAINEs.
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL,
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEB. 5, 1839.
Tue Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society are happy in assuring the Annual Meeting that the past year has been productive of circumstances very favourable to the enlargement of scientific tastes and popular gratification, among the members and friends of the Institution. The improvements of the Museum have been materially advanced ; the Library and Antiquarian departments have received con- siderable additions ; the Garden is enriched with many new plants, and has been selected for the establishment of an exhibition of fruits and flowers under the best auspices and with the fullest success.
Nor will the spirit of improvement be suffered to languish for want of new objects. Plans are in progress by which it is hoped some of the remaining fragments of our monastic edifices may not only be preserved from entire decay, but restored in a substantial form, for purposes of acknow- ledged utility. For the execution of these plans,—for the continuation of certain regulations regarding the admission of visitors,—and for some useful modifications of particular laws, the sanction of this Annual Meeting will be asked, after the members shall have heard a faithful statement of the present ‘condition of the Society’s affairs.
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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 collec- tion of Fosstn Orcanic Remarys has been improved in a part 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 Zootocy, 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 the 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
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subscription for the purchase of Mr. Allis’s unrivalled collec- tion of Comparative Osteology. That unique collection is now the property of the Institution, at the cost of £350., of which sum the principal part was raised by voluntary contribution. Considerable additions to the department of Indian Ornithology have been received, * including Lophophorus Impeyanus, and Tragopan Hastingsii; and the group of gallinaceous birds is in consequence well worthy of inspection. The cases already in the Museum for the reception of Birds have not required addi- tions on this occasion, but the time appears rapidly approaching when the whole of the space surrounding the large central room will be filled with the ranks of the feathered creation. A specimen of the mode in which this collection will be de- scribed for reference is laid upon the table by Mr. Allis; but before prosecuting this useful work, or adding by purchase to the ornithological series, it has been judged proper to prepare and place in the cases the large arrear of birds which had been presented at different times. This necessary work is now accomplished, principally by the exertions of Mr. Baines, who has also properly prepared all the Reptilia and Fishes ; and thus, for the first time during many years, all the speci- mens of vertebrated animals belonging to the Society may be seen in the Museum, though not all as yet in their right places.
Nor has another interesting part of the Zoological collection been neglected. One of the new cabinets for British Insects has been completed, and Mr. T. Meynell has with much patience scrutinized a considerable portion of the minute and beautiful objects of his care, and arranged them most perfectly for
* A valuable series from Dr. Wake ; another from Capt. Spencer, 39th Regt., (through Capt. Straubenzee.) Among the beautiful specimens presented by Dr. Wake, is an aged female of Lophophorus Impeyanus in the plumage of the male.
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study and reference.* To provide additional cases for Bri-
tish and Foreign Entomology will be the duty of the next Council.
COINS AND ANTIQUITIES.
Besides some Greek and Roman Coins of interest, + the most remarkable donations to the Antiquarian department are
the Roman Votive Stone, presented to the Society by the City Council, inscribed
GENIO * LOCI
-FELICITER
and two Roman stone coffins, found in the Castle Yard during the alterations made there in November, 1835, and lately transferred by the liberality of the County Magistrates from the Castle to the Museum. On one of these coffins is the following inscription :— AVR * SVPERO *‘ CENT LEG * VI * QVI ° VIXIT * ANIS XXXVIII M IIII D XIII * AVRE LIA * CENSORINA * CONIVNX MEMORIAM * POSVIT
Encouraged by the interest which has thus been manifested in the prosperity of the Society, by the public authorities of the city and the county, the Council ‘have made application for some other architectural and sepulchral monuments which might be fitly preserved in the Yorkshire Museum. In con- sequence the. statue of a knight templar has been saved from further injury in a wall near Walmgate, to take its station among the coeval sculptures of St. Mary’s Abbey, and the Council have not despaired of exciting attention to their reasonable requests in other quarters. ‘Io complete the col- lection of sepulchral relics in the multangular tower. one or
* Mr. W. C. Hewitson, (author of British Oology) during the time of his stay in York, gave able assistance as joint curator with Mr. Meynell. + Presented by C. H. Elsley, Esq., Rev. Dr. Barnes, Rev. C. Wellbeloved, &c.
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two more stone coffins of Roman date, found near the line of the railway, have been purchased; one of these bears the following inscription :— D M SIMPLICIAE * FLORENTINE ANIME * INNOCENTISSIME QVE * VIXIT MENSES DECEM FELICIVS * SIMPLEX * PATER * FECIT LEG ‘ VI‘ Vv
LIBRARY.
The cost of providing works illustrative of the several de- partments of Natural History and Antiquities, has prevented the growth of the Library in a manner commensurate with the other parts of the Institution ; yet, by the aid of the gift of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, some valuable additions have been made, and the Society still receives with gratitude copies of many original works from their authors, and the Transactions of Scientific Institutions. Of the numerous volumes which became the property of the Society by the bequest of the late George Hodgson, Esq., of Bridlington, such as appeared especially suited to the objects of the Insti- tution are placed in the Library, and the others have been exchanged for works which were much needed, and which will be registered as a part of Mr. Hodgson’s liberal donation. Some augmentation of book-cases may soon be required ; and as the great work of Audubon is now ended, the time is perhaps arrived for devoting some part of the very moderate sum annually spent on books, to complete the costly works of Humboldt, Buffon, &c. which are now imperfect, and conse- quently almost useless.
BOTANIC GARDEN.
To establish a Botanical Garden was one of the objects of the Society in taking possession of the Manor Shore. ‘To the
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already respectable collection of hardy plants, the last three years have added Stoves, which are now full of beautiful pro- ductions ; and in particular a further supply of above sixty species of Epiphytic Orchides, from the President, Earl Fitzwilliam, has fully justified the expenditure which comes into the amount of this year, (though partly executed pre- viously,) for the hot-house in which these singular vege- tables flourish. * ‘l'o provide additional facilities for the cultivation of choice and rare plants, the Council were not only encouraged, but compelled, by a sense of what was due to the promoters of the Horricutturat Fete which took place with such distinguished splendour and success in the Mu- seum Gardens during the month of August, 1838. ‘The clear profits from that admired exhibition amounted to £94.; and the thanks of the Society are justly due to the gentlemen who took the trouble of the management, and who, it may be hoped, will at the request of the new Council repeat their valuable services.
The other botanical riches of the Society, the British and Foreign Hrersaria, have been the subject of the incessant labour of the Curator, Mr. Hincks, who has now succeeded in placing a large part of the collection in a state which, to say the least, is creditable to the Institution, and valuable to the student. The Council have learned with pleasure that the work of Mr. Baines on the Native Plants of Yorkshire is already advanced nearly to completion, and they regard the publication of this ‘ Botanist’s Guide’ as entirely in the spirit of the Founders of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, who, in their first statement of objects, earnestly called for the pro- duction of such works.
* Wm. Oldfield, Esq. (already a liberal benefactor to the Museum and Garden, contributed to the cost of these erections, and has otherwise aided improvements in the grounds. Mr. Oldfield and Mr. J. F. Brown have also rendered essential service by contributing supplies of excellent soil.
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ANTIQUARIAN MONUMENTS.
Of mixed interest, as contributing partly to the beauty of the Gardens, and partly to the preservation of a noble monument of antiquity, the securing of the Roman Tower from ruin by a complete repair, may be mentioned as a proof that the wishes of every class of members have been attended to by the Council, as far as the finances of the Society would allow ; and it remains to call attention to some plans by which it is hoped other antiquarian relics may be saved from deso- lation, and employed not only to awaken the solemn memory of days gone by, but to minister to the progress of modern arts and the gratification of cultivated taste.
The Hosritrum of St. Mary’s Abbey, adjoining the River ‘Ouse, has experienced since the dissolution of the monastery every variety of destination; once it received the Lord Presi- dent of the North in great Council, now it is but the receptacle of its own ruins, and unless quickly renovated its very ruins will be lost. Antiquarians and men of taste have seen with regret the rapid progress of its decay, and lamented that the Yorkshire Philosophical Society possessed no sufficient funds to prolong by timely repairs the duration of this picturesque memorial of other times.
_ At the request of the Council, Mr. John Harper inspected the building with a view to its reparation; and an Artist, in whose celebrity York claims the highest interest,* has re- cently pronounced that, if restored almost precisely to its
* Wm. Erry, Esq., R. A., who, in his elegant discourse on the Cultivation of the Fine Arts, delivered in the Theatre of the Yorkshire Museum, on the 5th of November, 1838, strongly urged the restoration of the Hospitium, as a first step towards the Promotion of the Fine Arts in his native City.
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original appearance, it would be singularly well adapted for Exuisitions of Picrurgs and Scutprurg, one of the few sources of intellectual enjoyment and instruction in which York is still deficient. It may easily be rendered available for a Scuoot or Dersicn; and would be further useful on occasions of HorricutturaL and other important Mrrtines, connected with Science.
These considerations have led to the commencement of a Susscriprion, to enable the Yorkshire Philosophical Society to defray the cost of renovating the building and rendering it useful to the Public in the manner stated. ‘The proceeds of the Annual County Ball have been devoted to the same object; and at this moment the Sum accumulated for this purpose is above £480.
Different opinions are entertained as to the best manner of restoring or reconstructing this building, so as to fit it for the purposes contemplated in the Subscription, and yet.retain its architectural character, and its pictorial effect in the grounds of the Institution. In a matter so important and delicate, the Council determined to take no step which should deprive any Member or Subscriber of the opportunity of expressing his views on a subject where many are fully com- petent to offer useful opinions, and all are deeply interested ; where a single false step may be irretrievable, and the error of an hour may become the regret of an age. ‘hey intend, therefore, to propose to this Meeting a Resolution, empowering the Council to call together the Subscribers to the Restoration, and to concert with them on the best means of proceeding further in this most desirable work.
In connexion with this subject, the Council have the satis- faction of stating that an opportunity has arisen for restoring to its perfection another valued monument of the former
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beauty of St. Mary’s Abbey. Professor Phillips,—in pro- posing to reconstruct the roof and interior of the ancient Gateway House, and thus to exonerate the Society from the trouble and expense of irregular tenancy,—has assured the Council that, in the restoration of this building for his future residence, its original architectural character shall be scrupu- lously respected. It is for this Meeting to sanction the grant- ing of a lease, on terms which may justify him in defraying the very considerable expense of this restoration.
A great part of the other possessions of the Society on the Manor Shore is now usefully appropriated, but the management of this property will always be a source of some anxiety to the Council, so long as any part of it re- mains in almost accidental occupation. Eventually, it may be hoped, a part at least of this beautiful site, in connexion with the Hospitium, may be reclaimed for the enlargement of the gardens; and in anticipation of such a measure the opinion of this Meeting will be requested on the propriety of at once changing the line of road into Marygate, so as to allow the including the Hospitium and Ancient Gateway within the precincts of the Museum Gardens, whenever the funds of the Society may be adequate to bear the cost. If the Meeting shall judge the time favourable for this prelimi- nary measure, there is no obstacle in regard to the purchase of property, for some zealous officers of the Institution have already obtained possession of several houses on the line of the proposed new road.
It remains then only to state correctly the condition of the Sociery’sFinances. During the past year, several Extraordi- nary disbursements have been made, mostly under the direction
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of previous Annual Meetings, to a considerable extent; viz. for the purchase of Mr. Allis’s Collection £350.; for new Zoological Cases £236.; for Hothouses, &c. £40.; for re- pairs of the Roman Tower £15. ; making in all about £640.
To meet this great but necessary expenditure, the 'l'rea- surer has received Subscriptions towards the purchase of Mr. Allis’s Collection, to the extent of £227. 8s.*; from the Hor- ticultural Exhibition £94. 7s.; Admission and Composition from one member £25.; Admissions of twenty other members £100.; and a Donation of £10. from Miss Willoughby ; in all about £456. The difference is about £180.; but the debt of the Society, when some arrears shall have been col- lected, will not be found augmented by even one hundred pounds.
The Ordinary Annual Income has in no respect fallen off, but on the contrary has been augmented by the addition of twenty-two New Members, more than doubling the loss by death and removal. ‘he receipts from Ladies’ Annual Sub- scriptions, from payments for keys of the Gardens, and Strangers’ Tickets of Admission, have been nearly as in pre- ceding year.
No pecuniary loss, therefore, has resulted to the Society from opening the Museum and Gardens, during certain days, to the free access of the public. This privilege was em. braced by many thousand persons, and the meeting will learn with pleasure that neither accident nor misbehaviour occurred to mar the general satisfaction.
On the whole, the resources of the Society have been this year severely tried, but not found wanting; and the Council,
* The subscriptions altogether amount to £276. 16s. of which £41. 5s. are still unpaid.
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assured by ample proof that the public favour will fully sup- port this Institution, so long as it pursues steadily the path of public usefulness, and embraces every proper occasion of improving taste, augmenting science, and diffusing popular information, deem the increase of the general debt of small importance, compared to the objects sought for and gained.
The Council lay down the trust which has been committed to them, in full hope and confidence that the members at large will approve their exertions, and give such commands to their successors as, without encouraging lavish expenditure in any department, shall empower them to remedy defects in some, advance them all nearer to perfection, and prosecute with vigour and success every well-considered measure for extend- ing the field of human knowledge, or enlarging the sum of rational and scientific enjoyment.
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THE TREASURER OF THE
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1838. Pet Bz: £ Annual Subscriptions of 210 Members at £2. each... see, GAO Oe 50 Ditto of 4 ditto at £1. each bee AA rs oes 4 0 0 Arrears of former years ... iat yd Yisiralby |! Slee | Foe Sir Charles Ibbetson’s Annual Donetind x “at lowes 8)? 75); From Ladies, being Annual Subscribers se tee - 387 0 0 For Keys of the Gardens .. ee Ree Rees Oey a | | For Tickets of Admission at is sak See oeh -- 48 4 0 For Admission of 20 New Members Me Os meen Yt) eae | ee | For Admission and Composition of one Member ae ood OD IOSD Miss Willoughby, a Donation nes 10 0 0 Rents of the Manor Shore Estate for one oe Giting Michaelmas 136 8 0 Balance of the Proceeds of the Horticultural Exhibition ee. ee oe Balance of H. R. H. the Duchess of Kent’s Donation ... Sale Yb oan Subscriptions received for purchase of Mr. Allis’s Collection ... 235 11 0
Dec. 31, 1838. Pe Nae 4 To principal money owing on Mortgage of the Manor
Shore Estate ee Ais --- 2500 0 0 To Ditto owing to Wm. Gray, Esq. ee -- 1000 0 0 To Ditto owing to 8 Members _.... Se -- 400 0 0 To Balance overdrawn Messrs. Swann & Co. -- 60613 8 4506 13 8 5th Feb. 1839. £.5712 10 8
This Account has been audited ;
and allowed by us,
JAMES BARBER, ROBT. DAVIES,
JOSH. MUNBY. Treasurer.
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YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, IN ACCOUNT.
Cr. Dee. 31, 1837. Biivvbath wabsuta By principal money borrowed on Mortgage of the Manor Shore Estate, at 4 per cent. Interest ... 2500 0 0 By principal money borrowed of Wm. Gray, Esq. at 4 per cent. Interest oe oe -- 1000 0 0 By eight principal sums of £50. each, borrowed of 8 Members of the Society, the Interest whereof pays their Annual Subscriptions aa -- 400 0 0 By Balance due to Messrs. Swann & Co. this day ... 432 5 8 4332 5 1838. Crown Rent for one Year i ache Michaelmas 1838... i 1 0 Corporation Rent, ditto -.. . oe oe 6 12 Water Rent, ditto ene re sa set ay 6 6 Insurance for one Year... ie sits sh 5 0 Keeper of the Museum, one Year’s ers se es neiit 200.70 Lodge-Keeper, ditto =i sag sro DO Sub-Curator, on account of Salary, EE ere --» 195 0 One Year’s Interest of £2500. owing on Mortgage of the Manor Shore Estate, due 1838 cere SOO. 08 Ditto of £1000. owing to Wm. Gray, Esq., pes 31st Bes 1838 . 40 0 Interest to Messrs. Swann & Co. for being overdrawn bab 9 18 Paid Mr. Allis for his Collection ... bs Se - 350 0 Tradesmen’s Bills ine nee “a -- 553 0 7 Sundries. “AS P. oes ani ods +s faomey Maer, | 556 7 £.5712 10
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ANALYSIS OF THE TREASURER’S RECEIPTS AND
RECEIPTS.
Annual Subscriptions of 210 Members at 2/. each
Ditto of 4 non-resident Members at 17. ...
Arrears of former years
Sir Charles Ibbetson’s Annual Donets’
Annual Subscriptions from Ladies
For use of Keys of the Garden
Strangers’ Tickets of Admission wi
Admission of 20 New Members at 5/. each
Admission and Composition of one Member
Donation from Miss Willoughby
Rents of Manor Shore (one Year’s) we
Balance of the Proceeds of the Horticultural Exhibition t
Balance of H.R. H. the Duchess of Kent’ s Disetion
Subscriptions towards the Purchase of Mr.Allis’s Collection (of which canara there is “{ still unpaid 417. 5s. :
Balance for which the Banker’s Account is over- drawn for Expenses of the Year 1838 .
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235 11
SCS eceoeoeoeooeooccoece &
1205 17 0
174 8 1
£.1380 5 1
PAYMENTS DURING THE YEAR 1838.
PAYMENTS.
Rent, Taxes, &c. : ~ Rent to the Crown ... Rent to the Corporation Water Rent Poor Rates Insurance
Salaries and Wages : Keeper of the Museum Sub-curator Servant and Cleaning Riedkt Lodge-keeper Labourer
Interest on Debt, &c. : Mortgage Debt on Manor Shore
Interest on £1000. at 4 pew cent. Interest to Bankers for being overdrawn
Museum :
Purchase of Mr. Allis’s Collection
New Cases for Mammalia ... New Cabinet for Insects
Miscellaneous, including Furniture aid Repairs
Purchases of Specimens
Garden, Grounds, &c. : Garden and Grounds (1838) Bill for Stove (unpaid 1837) Manor Shore Roads, &c. Multangular Tower (repairs of)
Library :
Books and Binding
Printing, &c.
Printing... Stationery Advertising
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22 2 4 8 0 16
Incidents, including Coals, Coke and Gas, Postage, Carriage, &c.
Money left in Sub-curator’s hands for contingencies
atten * £; 8 6 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 233 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 8 9 685 3 1] 0 10 117 46 6 0 0 . 27 56 31 £. 1380
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RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEB. 5th, 1839,
Wituiam Gray, Jun., Esq., V. P., 1n THE CHain.
1. That the Rerorr of the Council be adopted and printed.
2. That the Laws, as revised by the Council, be adopted and printed for the use of the Members.
3. That the Regulations adopted by the Annual Meetings in 1836, 1837, and 1838, for the Apmrssion or Srrancers by the purchase of Tickets, be continued for the present year.
4. That the Council be again empowered, on certain days to be se- lected by them during the present year, to permit Free Apmission to the Museum and Gardens ro aL persons ; the mode of admission to be regulated by the Council.
5. That the Resolutions of the last Annual Meeting, empowering the Council to authorise the holding of one or more Horticucrurar Meetine¢s in the Society’s Gardens, be continued in force during the present year.
6. That the best Thanks of the Society be given to the Committee of Management of the Horticultural Fete held in August last ; and that they be respectfully requested to continue their valuable services for the year 1839.
7. That the cordial Thanks of the Society be given to the Subscribers to the Fund for the Restoration oF THE Hospitium of St. Mary’s Abbey ; and particularly to the Managers of the late County Ball, the surplus proceeds of which were applied to that Fund.
8. That the Council be empowered to arrange with the Subscribers to the Restoration of the Hospitium, the best means of effecting that object.
9. That the Trustees of the Society be authorised to execute a Lease of the Gateway House and adjoining ground to Professor Phillips, for such time and upon such terms as shall be approved by the Council.
10. That the Council be empowered to take steps for diverting the Road leading from the Manor Shore into Marygate, so as to admit of including the Hospitium and ancient Gateway within the Society’s grounds ; provided the expense thereof do not exceed £150.
11. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Vice-Presidents and Members of the Council retiring from office, and to the Treasurer and Secretaries, for their valuable services.
RESTORATION
HOSPITIUM OF ST.
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PROMOTION OF THE FINE ARTS IN YORK.
MARY’S ABBEY,
We whose names are undersigned, being desirous of promoting the ine Arts in York, by providing a suitable building for the Exhibition of Pictures and Sculpture ; and being satisfied that the Hospitium of St. Mary’s Abbey, now in great disrepair, would, if restored, afford ample accommodation for this and other useful public objects ;—do engage to subscribe the sums placed opposite our respective names, for the purpose of enabling the Yorkshire Philosophical Society to restore that building ; on the understanding that, for Public Exhibitions of Pictures and Sculpture, under the direction of a body of Subscribers in Yorkshire, the use of the rooms shall be freely granted, without charge, except during any Meeting in York of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science. Nov. 5, 1838.
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Earl Fitzwilliam, President of the Yorkshire Philo- sophical Society
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Hon. W. Duncombe, M. P.
Rev. Thomas Egerton C. H. Elsley
Wm. Etty, R.A. ... Rev. W. Flower, Jun. James Robert Fryer William Garforth Robert Gilbert... George Goldie, M.D. Wm. Gray, Jun. .
Edward Harper ... John Hutton, Marske
Hon. C. Langdale, M.P. ...
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18 RESTORATION OF THE HOSPITIUM.
£. 86/0. £. 8. d. Amount brought over 233 0 O | Edward Taylor 5 0 0 Mr. Alderman Meek 5 0 O | Mr. Terry .. oS DO Robert Menzies 5 0 O | G. Lowther Thompson ak sae A George Meynell 5 0 0 | Mrs. Ann as ihe Monk Joseph Munby 5 0 0 Bar £).0°/0 Rey. T. Myers 2 0 0 | John Tweedy ; 5 0 0 C.J. Newstead. 2 0 O | Baldwin Wake, M.D. 5 0 0 John Phillips, F.R.S. 5 0 0 | Robert Watson .. 10220 Wm. Richardson, jun. -» 1 0 0 | Rev. C. Wellbeloved 5 0 0 Henry Robinson .-. 5 0 0 | J.T. Wharton : 210 0 E.H. Pleven of York) 5 0 0 | Henry Willoughby 5 00 John Roper 5 0 0 | Sir F. L.. Wood, Bart. 5.0 0 Sir R. F. Russell, Bart. 5 0 0 | Sir W. Worsley, Bart. 5 0 0 Louis Sandier_—..- ++ 1 0 0 | Mareus Worsley .. 5 0 0 Thomas Simpson, M.D. 5 0 0 | Major Yarburgh .. 5 0 0 Edwin Smith 5 0 0 | Proceeds of County Ball... 91 1. 9 Thomas Smith, Huntington 5 0 0 ——— Rev. Isaac Spencer 5 0 0 £.489 16 9 W. R. C. Stansfield, M. Pp 5 0 0 Eustachius Strickland .-. 5 0 0 Swann, Clough, and Co. -.. 25 0 0
Subscriptions continue to be received by the Lorp Mayor, the Treasurer ; and at all the York Banks.
A Pustic Meetine of the Susscrisers to the Fund was held in the Theatre of the Museum, on Tuesday, the 26th of Feb. 1839, at One o'clock, to receive the Report of the Provisional Committee, and to take such further steps as might be considered necessary.
The Lord Mayor having been called to the Chair, stated the amount of Subscriptions received ; and the Rev. T. Myers, as Secretary to the Provisional Committee, having given a short account of the previous proceedings, it was
Resotvep,—That to the following Commitrer (chosen out of the Council of the Philosophical Society, and the Subscribers at large to the Restoration Fund) the further prosecution of the undertaking be entrusted, viz.—
The Lorp Mayor, Treasurer.
Rev. SrerHen CreyxeE, Tuomas Barstow, Esq. C. H. Ecsrey, Esq. Rev. W. Fiower, Jun. Professor Puiitirs, Rev. Isaac Spencer, Rey. C. WELLBELOVED, _ Dr. Wake.
Henry Rosinson, Esq. ) ; Honorary Secretaries. Rey. Tuomas Myers, $ y
SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
ELECTED IN 1838.
Allen, William, York. |
Anderson, Edward Richard, York.
Blyth, Edwin Verden, York.
Chapman, Henry, York.
Constable, Rev. Charles, Wassand, Hornsea.
Dawson, Pudsey, Sinnington Manor, Pickering.
Dundas, Hon. John Charles, M.P., Aske, Richmond.
Fletcher, Caleb, York.
Hewson, Rev. William, York.
Hey, Rev. William, Fork.
King, Joseph, York.
Labron, William, York.
Maltby, Henry Donkin, York.
Maxwell, Henry Constable, Boston, Wetherby.
Myers, Rev. Thomas, York.
Ransome, Henry, York.
Russell, Sir Robert Frankland, Bart., Thirkleby Hall, Thirsk.
Walker, John, York.
Waller, Robert, Holdgate, York.
Wallis, Edward, Burton Grange, York.
Watson, Robert, York.
Wilkinson, Rev. William John, York.
Williams, Caleb, York.
HONORARY MEMBER, ELECTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, 1839,
Hewitson, William Chapman, F.L.S., Bristol. c2
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS TO THE
GENERAL MEETINGS,
1838.
Arrit.—Catalogue of Fishes taken upon the Yorkshire Coast, and found in the Streams and Rivers of the County, by T. Mrynetr, Jun., F.L.S.
Ocr.—Notices of the Proceedings of the Newcastle Meeting of the British Association, by Prorressor Puitiirs, F.R.S., and W. L. Newman, F.R.A.S.
Nov.—On the peculiar construction of the Wing and Foot of the Penguin, by T. Avtts.
Derc.—An Essay on the Structure of some remarkable Seed-Ves- sels from Africa, belonging to the ‘Cannon-ball Tree’ and other species of the family of Lecythidacee, by the Rev. W. Hincxs, F.L.S.
DONATIONS
TO
THE SOCIETY’S MUSEUM.
GEOLOGY.
Rev. Ww. Bilton ove
Mr. J. Bleckly .. Earl of Carlisle
Mr. Gray (Dudley ) S. Hailstone, F.G.S. 90
S. Kenrick, Esq. i 45:
Rev. D. F. Markham ee
Professor Phillips, F.R.S.
S. Powell, Esq.
Series of specimens of trilobites, ortho- cerata, graptolithi, &c. from the tran- sition strata of Christiania.
Mass of siliceous millstone, from the ba- sin of Paris.
Femur of Megalosaurus Bucklandi, from the coralline oolite of Slingsby.
Cast of the Barr Trilobite.
A Saurian Vertebra, from the Himalaya Mountains.
Fossil Plants from the Coal Measures near Bradford.
Stem of a Fossil Plant, from the Coal formation of Staffordshire.
Specimens of mud of the Nile ; one taken from the shore near Mansoura, in the land of Goshen, on the Damietta branch ; the other from the shore of Gornou, part of Thebes.
Fossil Corals, from the coralline oolite near Cambridge.
Fossil Shells, (spirifera, producta,) from the millstone grit series, near Brimham.
22 DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM.
R. Ripley, Esq... ... Several Ammonites, from the lias of
the Whitby coast. Several specimens of Phenopteris, from
’ the sandstone beds near Whitby.
Rev. 8. Sharp... ... Fossil Plants from the coal formation near Wakefield.
Dr. Wake ... iow ... Ammonites, belemnites, terebratule, &c. from the Himalaya Mountains.
MINERALOGY.
Rev. J. Graham ... ... Specimens of Wavellite, from Tracton near Cork.
Professor Phillips, F.R.S. . Supposed ‘ Miemite,’ from the vicinity of Bristol.
Mr. Walker Smith, ... Stalactitical carbonate of lime. ( Ferrybridge )
ZOOLOGY.
John Agar, Esq. ... ... Several Reptiles from the East Indies. T. Allis, Esq. ose ..- Red-throated Diver. Cast of the foot of the Dodo. Mr. H. Chapman ... .. Pinna, from the East Indies. Sunderland Cooke, Esq. .... Scad, or Horse Mackerel (Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, i. 154.) Mr. H. Doubleday( Epping) A Willow Grouse, from Norway. G. L. Fox, Esq. M.P. ... Several British and Foreign Birds, in- cluding the Thick-knee, (cinclus aqua- ticus ) Eagle Owl, &c. Rey. J. Graham .., ... Specimen of Agaricia explanulata. Wm. Hatfeild, Esq. F.G.S. A Wild Swan.
John Henderson, Esq. A Wild Swan. ( Castle Howard )
DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM.
Mr. G. Holmes( Veterinary Surgeon, Thirsk )
Mr. Wm. Labron ...
—— Lambert, Esq.
Miss Lloyd...
Rev. T. M‘Gill (TZsle of Man)
T. Meynell, Esq. F.L.S. ..
Miss Norcliffe
Miss Phillips
Rev J.J. D. Preston
eer
W. R. Read, Esq...
23
A beautifully injected preparation of the Leg of the Horse. Modiola and other shells.
Rana esculenta.
Petrel, from the Cape of Good Hope. Tooth of Cachalot.
Eight species of Oriole.
Cut-throat Sparrow.
A case of Humming Birds.
A remarkable hybrid Duck, shot near Pickering, 27th Jan. 1838.
Four Foreign Birds.
' Four specimens of Crustacea.
— Scott, Esq. ( Norwich ) Capt. Spencer, 39th Regt. (by Capt. Straubenzie)
W. Whytehead, Esq.
Ornithorhynchus paradoxus. Eighty-threeskins of Birds, from Madras; Skins of the vulpine phalanger ; two species of pteromys ; four squirrels, &c. A white Sparrow.
COINS AND ANTIQUITIES.
Rev. T. Barnes —— Cayley, Esq. (Sowerby )
The City Council...
The Magistrates of the three Ridings
C. H. Elsley, Esq.
Mr. Harrison ' Mr. Peckitt, ( Egton )
A coin of Constans? and a Cuthic coin.
Arabic coins, one said to be found near his country house in Russia; one on shore of the Baltic sea.
A Roman Votive Stone.
Two Roman Stone Coffins, found in York Castle.
A gold coin of Arcadius, found at New- Building, near Thirsk; an antique brass spear head, found at Whitston- cliffe.
A sixpence of Elizabeth.
A Stone Hammer, found at the ancient British village near Egton.
Q4 DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM.
E. Prest, Esq.
Mr. E. Weddell ( Thirsk )
Rey. C. Wellbeloved
— Whytehead, Esq. ( Easingwold )
Coin of Claudius Gothicus, found in Cam- pishaw Field, near York, with a skull.
Roman family coin ; penny of William I. A Greek coin (of Eubcea).
A Grecian head, supposed to be of Bac- chus ; an Egyptian head.
MISCELLANEOUS.
F. Beckwith, Esq.... P. Maxwell, Esq. ...
Cobalt, from the burning of bank notes.
A curious Chinese Chair Bed.
DONATIONS TO THE GARDEN
AND BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS.
Mr. Bradwell Joseph Bonomi, Esq.
Earl Fitzwilliam ...
J. Tweedy, Esq. ... Dr. Wake ... Mr. Walker
An ornamental Fountain for the Gardens. Fruit of an African tree called ‘ Tebeldi.’
Sixty epiphytic Orchideous Plants for the stove.
Specimen of the Pine-apple Potato. Sixty different seeds from India.
An ornamental Fountain.
DONATIONS
TO THE LIBRARY.
J. Alston, Esq. ( Glasgow )
W. H. Alexander, Esq. ... (the Author )
Francis Baily, Esq. F.R.S. (the Author )
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Council of the British Asso- ciation
Geological Societys. ees
Rey. E. Hincks, D.D. (the Author )
Leeds Lit. and Phil. Society
Manchester Mechanics’ Institute.
J. 8. Menteith, Esq. (the Author )
T. Meynell, Esq. F.L.S. ... Rey.T. Myers... ove
Scarborough | Philosophical Society
J. Thurnam, Esq.... ove (the Author )
Dr. Wake ust ies
Whitby Lit. and Phil. Soc.
The Gospels, printed in raised characters for the use of the Blind. Chronology of the Ancient World.
Supplement to the Life of Flamstead, Ato.
Transactions of the Society, Vol. VI. Part III. Seventh Report of the Association, 1837.
Proceedings of the Society, to No. 58. A Work on Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
Annual Report, for 1837-8. Annual Report, and Catalogue of Library.
«* Farmers versus Rooks,” 8vo, 1838.
Three Parts of the Linnean Transactions.
Essay on the Chinese Language, by the Rev. T. Myers; Kant’s Philosophy ; Professor Christie’s Work on the Mag- netic Influence of Iron.
Annual Report, for 1837-8.
**On Aneurisms of the Heart,” from the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions. Addresses of the President and Trea- surer of the Hull Botanic Garden. Annual Report, for 1837-8.
E. Weddell, Esq., ( Thirsk ) Guthrie’s( Mrs.) Tour through theCrimea,
T. Wicksteed, Esq. (the Author)
Ato, 1802. Akerman on British Coins, 8vo. A Work on the Water Companies of London. D
26 DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
MAPS, PRINTS, &c.
F. Beckwith, Esq. .. Four Plates of the Rosetta Stone, pub- lished by the Society of Antiquaries, 1802—10. Engraving of Cesar’s Camp, at Holwood in Kent, published by the Society of Antiquaries, 1806.
Professor Chevallier «- A Table for Barometrical Computation. (the Author )
Professor Phillips, F.R.S. Index Geological Map of the British (the Author ) Isles, 1838.
Shropshire and North Wales Annual Report, for 1836. Natural History and An- — tiquarian Society
DONATION TO THE FUNDS OF THE SOCIETY.
Miss Willoughby ... ave 39, | ehhh, MEO) gO 0
ANNUAL DONATION.
Sir Charles Ibbetson, Bart. ... os £6 6 0
Tresea lek
(Thomas Wilson and Sons, High-Ousegate, York.)
Law yA REPORT OF THE COUNCIL YORKSHIRE
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
MDCCCXXXIX. PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
FEBRUARY 4TH, 1840.
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TRUSTEES OF THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT.
HIS GRACE, EDWARD, LORD ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
GEORGE, EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G.
CHARLES WILLIAM, EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S., F.S.A.
THOMAS PHILIP, EARL DE GREY.
HON. ann VERY REV. HENRY HOWARD, D.D. DEAN OF LICHFIELD.
FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ. F-.S.A.
ROBERT DENISON, ESQ.
REV. WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S.
WILLIAM HATFEILD, ESQ. F.G.S.
WILLIAM LAWSON, ESQ. F.S.A.
EUSTACHIUS STRICKLAND, ESQ.
RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
PATRONESSES
OF
Che Porkshire Philosophical Socicty.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. Her Royvat Hicuness Tote DUCHESS OF KENT.
PATRONS.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S.
EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F.R.S.
THE VISCOUNT MORPETH.
THE LORD STOURTON.
THE LORD WHARNCLIFFE.
THE LORD WENLOCK. *
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1840. .
PRESIDENT: Earu Firzwitiram, F.R.S.
VICE-PRESIDENTS: Hon. Wittram Henry Dawnay. Rev. Tuomas Ecerton, F.G.S. Rev. Wittiam Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S. Batpwin Wake, M.D. Francis Cuotmetey, F.S.A. Rev. Rosert Bryan Cooker, F.G.S. Witiram GArForTH. EvustTacuHius SrricKLANnb.
TREASURER: Rozsert Davies.
COUNCIL:
Elected 1837 ...... Rev. Joun Kenrick,
Elected 1838 ...... Grorce Goupir, M.D. Wittram Hatrei.p, F.G.S. Tuomas MEYNELL, suN., F.L.S. Henry SMaLes, _
Elected 1839 ...... Henry Puiip CHoLMELEY,
Rey. STEPHEN CREYKE,
Rev. Witt1am Henry Dixon, F.S.A.
Elected 1840 ...... Tuomas ALLIs, Faven JAMEs. Corsi, Witiram Gray, gun., F.G.S. Rev. CHarRtEs WELLBELOVED.
SECRETARIES: —
Joun Puriuties, F.R.S., G.S. Henry Rosinson. A3
vi OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
CURATORS: Rev. JoHn GRAHAM ... - GEOLOGY. Wicuram Harreixp, F.G.S..... Minrrarocy. Tuomas ALLIS: eae .. Comparative ANATOMY.
Tuomas MeEyNELL,JUN.F.L.S. ».
EntTomotoey. Rev.J.J.D.Preston,F.C.P.S. Rev. Cuartes WELLBELOVED ANTIQUITIES AND CoINs. JosEPH Munpy... os) ... LIBRARY.
Tuomas Hantey Barker \ LABORATORY. Joun. Harwoop we
KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM: Joun Puituirs, F.R.S., G.S., &e.
SUB-CURATOR:
Mr. Henry Baines.
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL,
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL. MEETING, FEB. 4, 1840.
Tue Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, on presenting the Report of their Proceedings since the last Annual Meeting, are desirous of directing the attention of the Members to. these circumstances which mark the actual state or indicate the future progress of the Institution.
The Society includes at this moment three hundred. and twenty-nine subscribing Members; a greater number than was ever before registered on the books. During the past year twenty-seven new Members have been elected, but we have lost by death or removal nine. We have to record in our list of departed friends and fellow-labourers two of the founders of the Society, whose names. stand first on our roll of Members, and whose rich collections from Kirkdale Cave, were conspicuous among the earliest donations to the infant. Museum. Mr. Atkinson and Mr. Salmond lived to see an almost private Society expand inte a Yorkshire Institution, and a few specimens from one locality become surrounded by many thousand objects, the various productions of distant lands and seas. Yet amidst that large assemblage of the diversified treasures of nature, the series of Kirkdale bones, though filling but one of a hundred cases, is still the centre of strongest attraction, a cherished memorial of the men and the motives which originated our Institution.
A &
8 REPORT OF THE
Besides supplying other public Establishments with dupli- cate specimens from Kirkdale, Mr. Salmond retained a few for his own examination. At his death, these were purchased for the Society, and such of them as appeared requisite to complete its collection, have been placed in the Museum ; the remainder have been presented by the Council to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Leeds. When the Yorkshire Museum was built, the Council marked their respect for Mr. Atkinson by appropriating one of the upper rooms to receive his anatomical collections. These have now become the pro- perty of the York Medical School, and the large room which they filled is at the disposal of the Curators for augmenting the public exhibitions.
This is an important consideration; for in consequence of the increase of the collections in several departments enlarged space is absolutely required for their proper classification. The geological cases are full, and it is impossible to defer ~ much longer the execution of a plan which has been for some time under consideration, by which the Foreign specimens may be separated from the British series, and perhaps a foundation laid for an arrangement of Organic Remains, in the order of their natural affinities.
The principal additions made to the zoological collections are in the departments of Ornithology and Conchology. ‘There is not any want of new cases for these collections, yet ‘it appears desirable to take advantage of the additional room now placed at the disposal of the Council, and to provide larger means for the distribution of Birds, and a separate place for the collection of Comparative Osteology.
Of this valuable series of skeletons and other preparations of vertebratéd animals, Mr. Allis presents this day the first part of an arranged catalogue; and the Council think that if
CoUNCIL For 1839. 9
transferred to the upper floor they may be more conveniently placed for exhibition and study, and much better seen, while their place being gradually supplied by Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, according to the original plan of the Zoological room, all the classes of vertebrated animals may be amply illustrated in a continuous methodical series, which is at present imprac- ticable.
The Members will hear with satisfaction that the difficult and laborious task of arranging the collection of British Insects so as not only to display to advantage what we now possess but to render it comparatively easy to dispose of new acquisitions, has been faithfully performed by Mr. Meynell in a most perfect and admirable manner. The Cabinets in which the British and Foreign Insects are preserved will remain in the Council room, with the Coins and Antiquarian Relics, which require to be placed in drawers or glass cases.
Equal labour and care have been bestowed on the Bo- tanical Collections by Mr. Hincks, who, previously to his removal from York, completed the classification of a consider- able part of the British Herbaria, and has left a perfect model to guide those who may be competent to carry on the work which he has been compelled to leave unfinished.
The additions to the Antiquarian Collections are of a very interesting nature, and from an interesting locality. The excavations on the line of the York and North Midland Railway have lately been prosecuted within the City walls, and the Railway Company promptly and liberally placed all the treasures of ancient art which might be there discovered at the disposal of the Society. 'To give effect to these friendly intentions, the Council found it necessary to place money in the hands of the Sub-Curator for the purpose of rewarding the workmen. It has been found, indeed, that neither the
10 REPORT OF THE
influence of the Company nor the rewards of the Society have prevented the unwarranted sale of many curious objects to private collectors; yet the specimens which have been ac- quired of Roman art, coarse, fine, figured, and glazed pottery, lamps, rings, keys, and coins, found lying near baths and spacious apartments, are neither few nor unimportant.
The Library has been augmented; yet not so much nor in such a manner as the importance of this branch of our establishment deserves. In arranging both the Zoological and Botanical departments of the Museum, the want of modern works of reference is severely felt, and an extra- ordinary difficulty is consequently to be surmounted before these collections can be perfectly arranged and named. Some of the works alluded to might be obtained at a small cost, but the Council have been unable to devote any funds to this object.
The Grounds of the Society have this year witnessed a second splendid exhibition of fruits and flowers, which took place in the month of August, and was attended by three thousand five hundred persons. On this occasion the Museum was thrown open, and the Committee to whom the arrange- ments were entrusted, recommended that instead of borrowing, the Society should purchase a large tent. It was thought, that by this means, the expenses attending any future Horticul- tural Exhibitions would be lessened, and that a tent sufficient — for these large meetings would be serviceable and perhaps productive of profit to the Society on many other occasions. The Council adopted these views and authorized the purchase. The cost of the tent was £70.; the profits arising from the exhibition were £67.; and as the Treasurer has since received £10. for the loan of the tent, the purchase may not be considered disadvantageous in a financial point of view.
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A desire has been often expressed by individual Members for the enlargement of the Garden, by including a portion of the land purchased from the Crown ; and at the last Annual Meeting the Council were directed to alter the line of road into Marygate, so as to render it possible, at some future period, to secure the hospitium within the general boundary of the pleasure ground. This has been done, a new road has been made, nearly in a direct line from Lendal to the lower end of Marygate, between the Hospitium and the river, at a cost, including some contingent expenses, of £110.
The property on the Manor Shore has in consequence been relet, subject to this new arrangement. The grounds of the Swimming Bath Company have been thus diminished, and their rental is reduced accordingly. The portion of ground allotted to the Gateway House has been in a corresponding degree augmented ; and the Council have fixed the ground rent to be paid by Professor Phillips on a term of thirty years, at £10; and they have the pleasure to report that the house is completely finished. There still remain unlet some portions of ground on the Manor Shore, and the income derived from that property is for this year less than usual, owing to the changes of occupation, allowances to tenants, and total loss of rent from the Hospitium.
Unfortunately the plans in agitation at the beginning of 1839 for restoring the Hospitium have not taken effect; the prospect of founding therein a School of Art has been aban- doned; and as only a very small part of the subscriptions offered for the restoration of the Edifice, has been placed at the disposal of the Society for the purpose of repairing it, and saving it from farther decay, the Council have suspended all further proceedings until the pleasure of this meeting should be known.
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12 REPORT OF THE
The meeting will recollect that in 1838 some Members of the Society purchased three houses in Marygate, on the line of the ancient boundary wall of St. Mary’s Abbey ; during the past year an opportunity unexpectedly presented itself of obtaining possession of seven other houses adjoining the former, and with them reaching from the gateway to nearly the lower end of the street. Impressed with the importance of preventing on this line any change which might be detri- mental to the Society’s property, the Members of the Council undertook individually the responsibility of the purchase, and summoned a Special General Meeting of the Members in the month of June to determine whether the Society should take on itself the contracts for the whole or any portion of these ten houses. At that meeting it was resolved that the Coun- cil should be authorized to purchase such of the houses on the boundary line, as they might think useful for the improve- ment of the grounds ; in consequence the Council have caused the ten houses to be regularly transferred to the Trustees of the Society. The cost of the purchase is £720. 8s. 9d., the
annual rent receivable is £38.
Charged with the execution of an expensive alteration of roads and tenures, the Income of the Society has been inadequate to allow of purchases for the augmentation of any department of the Museum. It was, however, impos- sible to avoid some other considerable expenses. Some parts of the buildings belonging to St. Mary’s Abbey have been repaired; the houses purchased in Marygate have been put in tenantable condition; the injurious effects of the great storm of last winter on the Museum building have been re- medied; and the Council have felt it right to recommend that the expenses of printing and advertising the Subscrip- tion Lists for restoring the Hospitium (£30.) should be de- frayed by the Society. The Treasurer's General Account and the Analysis of Disbursements during the past year,
COUNCIL FoR 1839. 13
will shew the present state of the Society's Finances. ‘The Council invite attention to these documents, and to the statement which has been made regarding the need of new cases for the Geological Collection, and a new appropriation of the upper rooms of the Museum —in order that the Mem- bers may clearly understand the position in which the Society is placed. This position, though not such as to create anxiety, certainly demands a severe and detailed economy, the retrenchment of all expenditure except what is really unavoidable, and the postponement of even useful and much desired improvements till a more favourable occasion.
It would be possible, at a very moderate expense, to augment the interest of the grounds and to improve the pictorial effect of the beautiful West Front of St. Mary’s Abbey, by slightly altering the position of the boundary wall toward Marygate; but the Council have been careful to leave their successors entirely free from every pledge re- garding future operations which involve expense. They do not venture to recommend the enlargement of the Pleasure Ground so as to include the Hospitium, and having no ade- quate funds at their disposal for even the reparation of this edifice, they leave entirely to the Meeting to determine whether any further effort shall be made to save the whole or any part thereof from inevitable decay, and thus render a building of historical and antiquarian interest, of some real and definite use to the Society and the Public.
The Zoological and Geological Collections of the Yorkshire Museum were illustrated by Professor Phillips in a Course of Six Lectures in the Winter of 1839 and 1840, which were largely attended. It is con- fidently expected that the Antiquarian treasures of the Institution will shortly become, in a similar manner, the basis of a Series of Discourses by the Curator, The Rev. C. Wellbeloved.
THE
TREASURER OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, IN ACCOUNT.
Dr. 1839, ; £. 6 a Annual Subscriptions of 194 Mem- bersat2/.each - ~ - - - 888 0 0 Ditto of 4 Membersatli.each - 4 0 0 Arrears of former years- = - 24 0 0 Annual Subscriptions of Ladies for keys ofthe gardens - - ~- 4310 0
For tickets of admission at 1s.each 4613 0 For Admission of 19 new Members 95 0 0 For Admission and Composition of
5 Members- ~ - - -1% 0 0 For Composition of 1 Member - 20 0 0 Rents of the Manor Shore Estate
and of the Marygate Houses re-
ceivedin 18389 - - ~- - 9% 3 9 Balance of the proceeds of the Hor-
ticultural Exhibition - - - 67 7 1
Lord Wenlock for the use of Tent 10 0 0 Arrears of Subscriptions for the
purchase of Mr. Allis’s collection 21 1 0 Evening Meetings for Gas Light - 110 0 December 31. Yorkshire Insurance
Company- - - 2500 0 0 William Gray, Esq. - 1000 0 0 Seven members 50/.each 350 0 0* Balance due to Messrs.
Swann & Co. - - 1457 3 1
5307 3 1
Audited Feb. 4, 1840,
WM. GRAY, jun. EDWARD ELGIN.
£.6247 7 11
1838, December 31, : ee 8a. By principal money owing
to the Yorkshire In-
surance Company ~- 2500 0 0 By principal money
owing to Wm. Gray,
Esq.- - - - 1000 0 0 By eight principal sums
of 502. owing to eight
Members of the So-
ciety - - - 400 0 0 By balance due to Messrs.
Swann & Co. this day 606 13 8
4506 13 8 1839. Crown Rent, one year - - - 108 Corporation Rent, ditto - - 612 6 Water Rent, five quarters - - 618 0 Insurance, one year - - - 5600 Keeper of the Museum, one year’s Salary- - - - - -100 0 0 Lodge Keeper, ditto - - - 1000 Sub-Curator, on account of Salary, Labour in Garden, Incidents, &c. 250 0 0 One year’s Interest of 25002. to the Yorkshire Insurance Company - 100 0 0 Ditto of 10007. to Wm. Gray, Esq. 40 0 0 Purchase money of Houses in Mary- gate, and expenses of conveyance 720 8 9
Sundry annual bills, viz. perchecks onSwann &Co. 283 17. 0 per Mr. H. Robinson - 100 17 10 perditto - - - 1113 0 per Treasurer - - 117 6 398 5 4 Purchase of Tent - - - 700
Interest to Messrs, Swann & Co. 32 9 0
£.6247
The arrears of subscriptions amount to about 2007. The Sub-Curator has in hand for contingences £.61 17 0
# One sum of £50. being repaid to the Executors of the late Dr. Wasse.
ANALYSIS OF DISBURSEMENTS
DURING THE YEAR 1839. Ordinary Expenses.
Rent, Taxes, &c. : Bed, £8 @ Rent to the Crown 4 O-8 Rent to the <p oe ve 612 6 Water Rent sie ane ey 618 0 Poor Rates Ra ai we erie Vike: 10 Insurance ei Za ie a 5° 0170 i 39 9 8 Salaries and Wages : Keeper of the Museum __..... = occ 1 2004 O.".0 Sub-Curator as bats kus Or 0 Servant and Cleaning Rooms as -- 20°00 Lodge-Keeper_... ye Soc Ser A GOTO Labourer bial sane coe! SB HOO Boy, for 6 months. a wae ia 912 0 Collector ee mat he 5 0 0 247 12 0 Interest on Debt, &c. : Mortgage Debt on Manor Shore age o> Se Oe Interest on £1000., at 4 per cent. --- sae (400 O17 0 Interest to Bankers for being overdrawn whet On ar Sie O 172 9 0 Museum : New Cabinet for Insects .. 20 0 0 Miscellaneous, including Furniture and Repairs 76 9 8 Purchase and preparation of Specimens as 15 18 8 Expenses on antiquities from Railway ce aE LOSE LS 131 14 1 Garden, Grounds, &c. : Garden and Grounds 42 <33 oh SOENOAKG St. Mary’s Abbey, Repairs of oe 10) 70 36 6 6 Library : Books and Binding Ll eee Printing, &c. : Printing bs ee aus wih F 42:13 0 Stationery ot 118 6 Advertising Subscription to Hospitium ear” BAP Aas | , —— 69 37 Incidents, including Coals, Coke, Gas, Postage, Carriage, &.... 5112 1 £759 14 2 Extraordinary Expenses. Executors of the late Dr. Wasse, aes a aie advanced by him to the Society 0 0 0 Purchase of Ten Houses in Marygate eos ie ea ee Repairs and alterations in ditto NS soe RMELBI OG —— 155 7 6 Purchase of new Tent and Cord for ditto .. Gea y 8 eile Wer 3 Making New Road, fixing new and altering old Fences, Brees. Ground, &c. on the Manor Shore : i eee 123° 12 1] £1000 1 2
RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEB. 4th, 1840,
The Rev. SrepHen Creyke, M, A. In THE CHAIR.
1, That the Right Hon. Lord Wenlock be requested to become a Patron of the Society.
2. That the Rev. Wm. Hincks, F.LS., late Curator of Botany, be elected an Honorary Member.
3. That the Rerort of the Council be adopted and printed for the use of the Members.
4. That the Regulations adopted by the Annual Meetings in 1836, 1837, 1838, and 1839, for the Apmission or Strancers by the pur- chase of Tickets, be continued for the present year.
5. That the Council be again empowered on certain days to be se- lected by them during the present year, to permit Free Apmiss1on to the Museum and Gardens to att PERSONS; the mode of admission to be regulated by the Council.
6. That the Resolutions of the last Annual Meeting, empowering the Council to authorise the holding of one or more Horticutrurat Meetings in the Society’s Gardens, be continued in force during the present year.
7. That the best Thanks of the Society be given to the Committee of Management of the Horticultural Fete held in August last ; and that they be respectfully requested to continue their valuable services for the year 1840.
8. That the Council be authorized to make immediate application for Subscriptions for the Preservation of the Hospitium, and for putting it into a condition to be available for the objects of the Society.
9. That the Council be empowered to repay to the Executors of the late James Atkinson, Esq., the sum of £50., which he had by mistake paid to the account of the Society.
10. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Vice-Presidents and Members of the Council retiring from office, and to the Treasurer and Secretaries, for their valuable services.
SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
ELECTED IN 1839-40.
1839.
Bosville, Alexander, T’horpe, near Bridlington.
Bebb, George, York.
Bradwell, Joseph, York.
Brearey, Christopher Spencer, York.
Barker, Thomas Hanley, York.
Constable, Marmaduke, Walcot, near Brigg, Lincolnshire.
Constable, Rev. Charles, Wassand.
Catton, William, York.
Carr, Matthew, York.
Duncombe, Hon. William, M.P., Waresley Park, Cazton, Huntingdonshire.
Drake, Rev. James Ashton, Mowbray Hill, near Masham.
Gaskell, William, York.
Grayston, James, York.
Harris, Charles, Fulford Grange, near York.
Husband, William Dalla, York.
Harrison, Rev. William Estcourt, York.
Hardman, William, York.
Hood, Wells, York.
Keyworth, Henry, York.
Matterson, William, jun., York.
North, William Graves, York.
Russell, Henry, York.
Smith, Edwin, Acomd, York.
Simpson, Green, York.
Spence, Joseph, York.
Swale, Joseph, York.
Wilson, Edward, Clifton, near York.
1840. Barnes, Robert, York. Carruthers, W. J., Arthington Hall, Leeds. Dobson, Rev. John, York. Howard, Charles, York. Kay, Sir John Lister Lister, Bart., York. Markham, Rev. Henry Spencer, Residence, York, and Clif- ton, Notts. Thurnam, John, York.
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS TO THE
GENERAL MEETINGS.
Fes. 5, 1839.—Letter accompanying a donation of several beauti- ful Encaustic Tiles, from H. Bower, Esq., F.A.S.
May 7, 1839.—On Symbols, with reference especially to Numis- matics, by the Rev. Cuartes WELLBELOVED, Curator of Antiquities.
Oct. 1, 1839.—Letter from W. Hatreitp, Esq., F.G.S., contain- ing Observations made during his Travels in Egypt and Nubia.
Meteorological Registers for the year 1839, were received from F. Cholmeley, Esq., Rev. C. Sykes; Mr. John Ford, Rev, W. Blanchard; &e. ;
DONATIONS
TO
THE SOCIETY'S MUSEUM.
GEOLOGY.
Thomas Allis aS
‘Thomas Barstow, Esq. ...
H. P. Cholmeley, Esq. ...
Sir P. Egerton, Bart., F.G.S.
James Hamerton, Esq.
Lady Frances Harcourt ...
Rev. C. V. Harcourt we
Wm. Hatfeild, F.G.S.
George Pollard, Esq. J. Spence, Esq.
H. T. M. Witham, F.G.S.
Fossils from the lias of Gloucestershire, including T'rechus anglicus, Hippo-~ dium ponderosum, &c.
Masses of gypsum (variously crystal- lized), from the line of the York and North Midland Railway, near Fair- burn.
Fruit and investing leaves of Zamia gi- gantea, from Kettleness.
Cast of the foot of Cheirotherium Her- cules, from the red sandstone of Che- shire.
Fossil fruits (fir-cones, &c.), wood, and shells, all pyritized, from Herne Bay. A collection of corals and shells, from the upper silurian rocks of Hereford-
shire.
Trilobites (Isotelus, Calymene,) ortho- ceratites, and nucula, from the lime~ stone of Trenton Fall, New York.
Series of echinida and fossil shells, from the tertiary rock of the Mokattam range, Egypt.
Lepidodendra and other fossil plants from near Bradford.
Bones of horse, deer, &c., from near Well in Yorkshire.
Cast of a jaw, from Burdie House, near Edinburgh.
BQ
ZOOLOGY.
Thomas Allis Wm. Allen, Esq.
~ Rev. C. Constable ...
Rev. Archdeacon Corbett, by T. Walker
Miss E. Dalton Rev. J. Dalton
Lieut. Edward Dixon, R. N. by Dr. Wake
Frank Foljambe, Esq.
Mr. Mawson T. Meynell, jun. F.LS. 2. Natural History Society of
Newcastle, Durham, and Northumberland
R. Parnell, M.D. ...
woe
R. R. Pearce, Esq- de
James Richardson, Esq. ...
Skin of the tapir Mexicanus.
A large species of pinna, taken round Cape Horn.
A red-throated diver.
Eighty birds, from the Himalaya moun- tains, &c.
Eggs of the cut-throat sparrow.
The porbeagle shark.
A species of diodon and the devil-fish, from the West Indies.
Grey cat, shot in Rossshire.
A black and white rook, crambe.
shot at Butter-
A series of British Insects to supply de- siderata in the Cabinets of the Society.
Dendropyllia ramosa, and other corals selected from the collection of the So- ciety.
Twelve British fishes prepared by him- self in a manner described in his work on the Fishes of the Forth.
Coccoon and perfect insect of the puss moth.
A fine specimen of Scarabeus Hercules.
J Maas: Clarke, ( Cincinnati) Land and fresh-water shells, (including
Lieut.Baldwin Arden W ake, R.N.
—— Warren, ( Dublin)
many unionide) from the United States of America.
Meandrina, nullipora, and other corals, from the West Indies.
Forty species, including isocardia cor, patella clealandi, &c. (in all 250 speci- mens) collected in Ireland, chiefly oy the Eastern coast, near Dublin.
BOT. AN Y.
Mrs. G. Brown ... ... A collection of sea- weeds.
Miss Cattley «eee Collection of 70 seeds, from the Cape of Good Hope.
Mr. William Hardman ... Sixty-five sorts of tulips (named).
J. Pemberton, Esq. (Sher- A collection of seeds, from the East and burn Hall) through Dr. West Indies, including hedysarum gy- Wake -... ove ti rans.
Captain Porter... «es Collection of 70 seeds, some of them new, from Panama and other parts of America. Mr. Rivers ‘s+ eee ... ‘Twenty-four roses.
- Edwin Smith, Esq. ae Portion of one of the cedars, of Libanus (cut from the tree by himself).
Rev. Isaac Spencer ... Twenty species of seeds, from Brazil.
ANTIQUITIES, &e
Oswald Allen, Esq. ... Ancient inscribed stone, from St. Saviour- gate. ‘Mr. Baker ... ove .«» Ornamented brass box.
H. Bower, Esq. os «.. Nine square glazed tiles.
T. Hodgson as ... An arquebuss.
Mr. Hands ... ose «. Cast of the Venus de’ Medici. Keld, Esq. + «» Stycas, from Hexham.
J. Mushin, Esq. . . ... Casts of Greek and other coins.
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Mr. Pitcairn
eee eee
Edmund Horsfall Roper, Esq. Sheriff of York for
1838 and 1839, and W.
North, Esq., the present Sheriff
York and North Midland Railway Company
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
A glazed Roman vessel, from the rail- way excavations.
The ancient brass horn, anciently used by the Sheriffs of York as a symbol of office.
Roman votive stone, portions of a bath, fragments of sculpture, many lamps, fragments of pottery, rings, pins, coins, &c., dug up in the excavations on the line of the railroad.
An iron cross, found near the terminus of the railroad.
DONATIONS
Birmingham Philosophical Institution British Association for the Advancement of Science Cambridge Philosophical Society C. H. Elsley, Esq. ... W.H.Fitton, M.D., F.R.S., G.S. (the Author) - Professor Forbes, F.R.S. (the Author ) Geological Society of London W.H. Hearon, Esq. '
TO THE LIBRARY.
Report for 1838. Reports of the Association, for 1838.
Transactions of the Society, Vol. VII. Part I.
Ogilby’s Roads of England, 1698, folio.
Review of Lyell’s Geology, 8vo, 1839.
Memoir on the Colours of Steam, 4to.
Proceedings of the Society.
Three old York Newspapers, viz. Cou- rant, No. 66, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 1726, Ato; Ditto, No. 159, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1728, 4to.; Ditto, No. 582, Tuesday, ‘Nov. 2, 1736, folio.
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
E. Hebden, Esq., jun. Mr. William Ick...
Professor Johnston, F.R.S. (one of the Authors ) Profes. Kaup and Profes. Klipstein (the Authors ) C. Lambert, Esq. (the Author )
R. Parnell, M. D. (the Author ) Professor Phillips, F.R.S. (the Author )
The Polytechnic Society of Cornwall W. Priestley, Esq. (the
Author) ~
Rev. J. Pye Smith, L.L.D. (the Author ) Scarborough Literary and Philosophical Society Rev. W. Taylor, F.RS. ... R. J. Thompson, Esq.
Kirby Hall Ensign Charles Wake, 24th Native Infantry Whitby Literary and Phi- losophical Society Rev. George Young, L.L.D. (the Author )
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Print of Orthagoriscus Mola.
Catalogue of Remarkable Plants growing near Birmingham.
Account of the Newcastle Meeting of the British Association.
Description du Dinotherium Giganteum. Magazine for the Blind, No. 1 and 2.
On the Natural History of the Fishes of the Forth and its Tributaries, 8vo.
Treatise on Geology in Lardner’s Cyclo- pedia, vol. II.
Report of the Society, for 1838.
A MS. volume entitled Etymologicon Eboracense, Pars Occidentalis, tom. 1, 1839, 4to.
Scripture and Geology, 8vo, 1839.
Report for 1837-8.
A Prussian Thaler Courant.
Home’s Essays on Comparative Anatomy, Ato.
A Delhi Gazette, in the Persian lan-
guage. Report for 1837-8.
Scriptural Geology, 1839, 8vo.
(Thomas Wilson and Sons, High-Ousegate, York.)
Pe tere
Dorkshire Philosophical Society,
a
ANNUAL REPORT
FOR
MDCCCXE.
BANUAL REPORT
OF THE COUNCIL
YORKSHIRE
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
¥FOR
MDCCCXL.
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
THOMAS WILSON AND SONS, HIGH-OUSEGATE.
1841.
TRUSTEES
OF THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT.
HIS GRACE, EDWARD, LORD ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
GEORGE, EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G.
CHARLES WILLIAM, EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S., F.S.A.
THOMAS PHILIP, EARL DE GREY.
HON. ann VERY REV. HENRY HOWARD, D.D. DEAN OF LICHFIELD.
FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ. F.S.A.
ROBERT DENISON, ESQ:
REV. WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S.
WILLIAM HATFEILD, ESQ. F.G.S.
WILLIAM LAWSON, ESQ. F.S.A.
RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
PATRONESSES
‘OF
Che Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. Her Royat Hicuness Toe DUCHESS OF KENT.
PATRONS.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S.
EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F.R.S.
THE VISCOUNT MORPETH.
THE LORD STOURTON.
THE LORD WHARNCLIFFE.
THE LORD WENLOCK.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1841.
PRESIDENT: Earu Firzwityiam, F.R.S.
VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. Rosert Bryan Cooke, F.G.S. Witiram GarForTu. Rev. Jonn Graunam. Wirtiam Harreitp, F.G.S. Rev. Jonn Kenricx. Tuomas MEYNELL, sun., F.L.S. Henry SteruHens Tuompson. Batpwin Wake, M.D.
TREASURER: Rosert Davigs.
COUNCIL: Elected 1838 ...... Greorcre Gotoir, M.D. Elected 1839 ...... Henry Puinie CHotMetey,
Rev. STEPHEN CreYKE,
Rev. Wittram Henry Dixon, F.S.A. Elected 1840 ...... Tuomas ALLIs,
Favet James Copsiz,
Witiiam Gray, sun., F.G.S.
Rev. Cuar.tes WELLBELOVED, Elected 1841 ...... Rev. T. Ecerrton, F.GS.
Rev. W. Hey,
W. D. Litttepatr,
W. F. Rawpon, M.D.
SECRETARIES: Joun Puitiies, F.R.S., G.S. Henry Rosinson.
Adi
vi OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
CURATORS:
NATURAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT.
GEOLOGY ie oo» d.PHILLIPS, F.R.S., G.S. MINERALOGY ... .. W. Harreity, F.G.S. ZooLoGy—VERTEBRATA ... * ANNULOSA .. .T.MEYNELL,JuN.F.L.S. Mo.tusca AND } v ZoorpHyta CoMPARATIVE ANATOMY... THomas ALLIs. Botany—GENERAL .. Wm. D. Huspanp. BritisH ... O. A. Moort. ANTIQUITIES Ss ..» Rev. C. WELLBELOVED.
Lisrary and MSS. ... JosEPH Munsy. LABORATORY ath to 2s. Baprer: OBSERVATORY id .. W. L. NewMan.
METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS JOHN Forp.
SUB-CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM:
Henry Barnes.
* These departments for which no Curators are specially named, are con- sidered to be under the direction of the Secretaries and the Sub-Curator.
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL,
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING FEB. 2, 1841.
In the Report which the Council have the honour to pre- sent to the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, the Members will receive a concise account of the progress which has been made in the past year ; of the actual state in which the Institution is placed in each of its departments ; and of the method by which it may pro- ceed farther in its career of usefulness.
It is gratifying to the Council to deliver on this occasion a statement that much which the members desired to see under- taken has been performed, without placing the finances in an unfavourable position ; to record an ample addition of Mem- bers elected, a continual accession of donations to the Mu- seum, and an undiminished attendance of visitors.
From these circumstances and the valuable aid which has been afforded by individual exertion, in literary efforts and the management of business, there is reason to hope the In- stitution has lost none of its power of influencing the progress of knowledge, and administering to the intellectual tastes and enjoyments of the public.
The activity with which the resources of the community are now directed to the practical applications of knowledge, A4
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ought to be favourable to every institution which can aid, in any degree, the acquisition of its fundamental principles. It is, moreover, the opinion of the Council that in addition to the acknowledged advantages of consulting the various Col- lections, the Laboratory and Observatory may be rendered a means of valuable instruction, and that it is in the power of the Society, at a moderate cost, to give very effectual assist- ance toward the solution of new problems of the highest in- terest it Meteorology, such as the registration of the velocity as well as the direction of the wind, the direction and incli- nation as well as the quantity of rain, and the temperature of the air at different heights above the ground. For obser- vations of this kind York is favourably situated, and by com- paring the indications of a standard set of instruments here with others placed in different parts of the county, much in- formation interesting in science, if not immediately valuable _in practical applications, might result.
The donations to the Geological museum have been nu- merous, and the Council wish particularly to notice the tertiary fossils from the Mokattam range in Egypt, collected by Wm. Hatfeild, Esq.; a series of fossil plants from Bradford, pre- sented by G. Pollard, Esq. ; and several producte and other shells from. the limestone of Bredon hills in Leicestershire, the gift of the lamented Lady Flora Hastings. Dr. Wake has added some splendid specimens from Lyme Regis; and Mr. Bower a magnificent tusk of the fossil elephant, curved through three-fourths of a spiral, from Cheveley near New- market. An exchange with the Earl of Enniskillen has en- abled us nearly to complete the fine skeleton of the Elk.
Among a few specimens which lave been added to the Mineralogical Cabinet, is one the gift of Captain Ivanitzky, Vivianite in a bivalve shell, from the Crimea.
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In the list of the Zoological donations will be found a num- ber of Reptiles, and Eggs of the Ostrich, one of several fruits of Mr. Hatfeild’s travels in Egypt.
The most remarkable donation to the collection of Com- parative Anatomy is a very elegant and admirable injected preparation of a Horse’s head, by Mr. W. F. Lockwood, Veterinary Surgeon.
It will be seen that the collection of Coins has received from the Curator and others some interesting additions, espe- cially a portion of the many objects of this nature belonging to the latter days of Rome, which have been discovered in the railway excavations.
Considerable additions have been made to the Antiquarian department during the last year, especially of the remains of Roman York. For the possession of these the Society is indebted to the forethought of the Directors of the two Railway Companies* whose lines are now united in our City. Every application which has been addressed by the Council to these Boards has met with the most prompt attention, and there are yet several benefits which the Society may reasonably count upon receiving through their friendly cooperation. An ancient British Canoe made of an oak tree, which was found at Stanley Ferry, near Wakefield, has been consigned to our collection by George Banks, Esq., and Mr. Hatfeild has enriched the Museum with the Mummy of a Female which he personally obtained from the tombs at Thebes during his travels in Egypt in 1839. +
* The Directors of each of these Companies previous to the excavations being made from which such discoveries have resulted, informed the Council that whatever was curious or nace ome to the Antiquarian should be at the disposal of the Society.
+ The accompanying male mummy, which was procured at the same time and place, by Lord Claud Hamilton, has been presented to the Museum at Coburg.
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The value of such collections of the early monuments of art has been demonstrated in a most interesting manner by the use made of them in the instructive series of discourses which, according to the intimation in the last Report, has been delivered in the Theatre of the Museum by the Curator of Antiquities, the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved. The Society is indebted to the generosity of Mr. Wellbeloved for the donation of the whole proceeds arising from these able and delightful lectures, which have brought before our eyes a vivid picture of ‘ ancient York’ in its relation to the arts and arms of Rome, and which will be followed, we hope, by a similar effort to elucidate the history of the Abbey of St. Mary, and the other noble monastic edifices which still remain to add a peculiar charm to some of the fairest scenes in Yorkshire.
The labours of one valued friend long and earnestly de- voted to English antiquities are ended; we have lost from our ranks one of our earliest and most esteemed associates : yet, mindful to the last of those studies which he cherished, and that Institution which he so zealously supported, Mr. Strickland has bequeathed to us the records which he had collected for the history of St. Mary’s Abbey ; and in addition to this literary treasure the sum of £100, which the Society will doubtless devote to some object which would have been approved by the donor, and which may long preserve the memory of his taste and generosity.
Some donations have been received for the garden, but the principal advantage to Botanical Science which is to be men- tioned on this occasion, is the completion of the volume in which their intelligent Sub-curator, Mr. Baines, has been so
long engaged.
The Flora of Yorkshire is now published, and has been pronounced by a competent judge to be a successful and pleasing addition to the Botanical Library, and creditable to
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the worthy author in whose diligence, accuracy, and fidelity, all who know him will confide. It has been very favourably received by the Botanical World, and the Society may be expected to take much interest in this successful effort of their Officer, since a large part of the accurate information which it contains, regarding the localities of plants, has been derived from the rich Herbarium belonging to the So- ciety, and both the late Curator of Botany and other mem- bers of the Society have taken the liveliest interest in con- tributing to its completeness. Mr. Baines has also been fortunate in obtaining the co-operation of many skilful Bo- tanists, resident in Yorkshire, and the result is a faithful Catalogue of Yorkshire Plants to the number of 1002, be- sides ferns and mosses.
Among the donations to the Library, the Greenwich Ob- servations for 1835-8, and the Edinburgh Observations Vols. I. and II., presented by the Royal Astronomical Society, should be specially mentioned as an encouragement to a re- gular and systematic use of the Observatory.
Thus by the continued favour of the public all our prin- cipal collections have been increased, and in some departments these augmentations have now become so great as to render a new disposition of the specimens and the addition of some cases desirable. It has been found possible, without any special provision of new cases, to place in security a great part of these various contributions ; but the library shelves are full; the time is come for a new disposition of the col- lections in Zoology and Antiquities; and for the geological museum additional space of drawers and cases is greatly needed, to allow of some further classifications, and the ex- hibition of many specimens which would be found of great interest could they be rendered accessible. The estimated cost of new cases and a complete set of drawers for the
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geological room was found too considerable to allow of this great improvement being undertaken, but the Council earnestly recommend its execution on the earliest favourable occasion. By a very simple method one of the upper rooms has been fitted to receive the preparations in Comparative Osteology *, and thus space is gained for an improved classification of the foreign birds, the reptiles, fishes, and invertebrata. The re- pairs of the Hospitium have given the means of saving from injury some of the larger antiquarian remains, which are now conveniently placed in the basement, and may be more ad- vantageously arranged hereafter, when the flooring and fitting up of this building shall have been effected.
To this account of the increase of the Museum, the Coun- cil add with regret the announcement that the Officer under whose care it has grown to its present extent is compelled, by the pressure of other engagements, to resign the charge which, he has exercised for fifteen years, though he still hopes to give to the Society proofs of his unaltered regard for its interests, and some aid in carrying out its scientific objects. ‘The ne- cessity of this measure was explained to the Council in the commencement of the last year, and some consideration has since been devoted to the arrangement of a plan for the economical and effective administration of the Museum, which has been duly weighed, first by a special Committee and finally by the Council ; and this plan, which offers but slight alterations of the general system, and yet provides for vigilant economy, as well as a due performance of requisite duties, is now submitted for the approbation of the Meeting.
It is well known that many provincial Philosophical Societies have derived great benefit from the services of members to
\ * Mr. Brown has presented the painting of these rooms, as well as of the boundary gates, the new fountain, and other objects.
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whom the care and direction of certain portions of their Mu- seum are entrusted ; and for assistance of this kind in many portions of its collections the Yorkshire Philosophical Society is deeply indebted. ‘The members are aware that several of the most conspicuous departments of the Museum have been under the superintendence of Curators singularly fitted by taste and knowledge to do them justice. It is proposed to carry out this principle, to call for additional exertions of like nature, and to nominate a sufficient number of members as Curators to take charge of all the different parts of the collections, and with little personal trouble to maintain their efficiency. For this purpose it is proposed to constitute the following dis- tinct Curatorships: viz.
Natural History Department: 1. Geology. 2. Mineralogy. 3. 4. 5. Zoology in three parts: viz. 3. Vertebrata. 4, Annulosa. 5. Mollusca and Zoophyta. 6.7. Botany in two parts: viz. 6. General Botany. 7. British Botany. 8. Comparative Anatomy. 9. Antiquarian Department. 10. Library and Manuscripts. 11. Laboratory. 12. Observatory. 13. Meteorological Instruments.
To make this plan effective, and its operation regular, and to render as light as possible the labours of each Curator, it is proposed that the duties of the Sub-Curator shall be so far modified as to allow of his attendance every day, between certain hours, to aid in the classification and due conservation of the collections, and that an exact statement of what is en- trusted to and expected from them be furnished to each Curator and to the Sub-Curator. :
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To compensate for these important duties, it is proposed to augment in a slight degree the stipend now paid to Mr. Baines, which will then become £100. per annum.
Into the details of this scheme it appears not necessary or useful to enter in this place, but the Council are aware that the principal recommendation of such a plan will be found in its efficiency ; and that it may not be easy to find in a busy community members who can devote sufficient time to execute, or even to direct, the arrangements in even one department of an increasing Museum ; yet they entertain at present a full hope of success, not only because several of the Curatorships will still be administered by members of tried zeal and know- ledge, but because substantial assistance is expected from young and active officers.
Moreover, what difficulty there may be in the arrangement is rendered less formidable by the consent which Mr. Phillips has given to retain for this year the direction of the Geological Collection, which is the largest of all, and from its continual growth, demands perhaps the greatest attention, and which has, in fact, been lately re-arranged so as to include the most modern geological classifications.
In anticipation of this new arrangement, the whole Zoolo- gical Collection is undergoing a complete examination as to the condition of the specimens, which has been found satis- factory, and in the course of the next month it is confidently expected that advantage will be taken of the space now gained in the Museum of Zoology, to carry into effect the plan of an entirely new arrangement of Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, and Crustacea.
Of the ability of Mr. Baines to perform the duties which will now devolve upon him, the Council have had sufficient
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proof. During the past year he has completed the arrange- ment of the excellent Foreign Herbarium, * which was begun by Mr. Hincks, he has rendered very effectual aid in the Museum, and has superintended to the satisfaction of the Council, the various improvements which have been effected in the pleasure ground.
The Garden is now enlarged toward the ancient Gateway on the North, + and the Hospitium on the West; this addi- tional ground has been laid out with care, and the elegant fountain presented by Mr. Walker has been placed within it in an advantageous situation; the space round the Hos- pitium has been cleared to give effect ‘to the architecture of this building and the ancient Water Gate which adjoins it. The expense of these and many minor details, has very much exceeded the estimates for the more simple changes originally ‘contemplated, but the Council have had the satisfaction of finishing this work, and may now be permitted to state that, in their judgment, this is the last effort towards enlarging the grounds which a prudent regard to the general prosperity of the Institution can permit for many years, though in re- gard to the appropriation and embellishment of the ample space now included within our boundaries, it is probable that more useful improvements may be suggested.
The value to the health of York of so large and cheerful an area, close to the City, and accessible on terms so easy, is proved by the extraordinary efforts which private benevo- lence has recently made to secure advantages of this descrip- tion to the population of some of our large manufacturing towns.
* Presented by the Rev. J. Graham.
+ The boundary gates on this side have been presented by Mr, J. Cluderay.
16 REPORT OF THE
‘The Council have to congratulate the Meeting on the repa- ration of the Hospitium by means of a Subscription raised among the Members, and augmented by the proceeds of a County Ball, very handsomely devoted to this object. The sum thus raised has been found nearly sufficient (after deduct- ing various collateral expenses) under the direction of Mr. J. Harper, to reconstruct the roof and the walls, but not to com- plete the building for general purposes, which requires the introduction of floors, doors, and windows. It might be easily and effectually warmed by stoves, and would then become in many respects a most desirable and valuable acquisition, as an Antiquarian Museum, and a place for public meetings. 'The tiles which now cover the building were the gift of the York and North Midland Railway Company.
The effect of this reparation of an interesting part of the buildings of St. Mary’s Abbey, combined with the enlarge- ment of the pleasure ground in front of it, has been generally acceptable to the members as well as peculiarly gratifying to artists, and has already yielded valuable fruits.
The Horticultural Exhibition in August experienced the advantage of increased accommodation afforded by the ample rooms in the Hospitium, and the scene presented in the Mu- seum grounds on that occasion was in every respect most gratifying. ‘These exhibitions being now considered as an established part of the proceedings of the Institution, the directing Committee, for whose prudent arrangements and zealous exertions the Society cannot be too grateful, found it desirable to make purchases of some articles indispensable to the exhibition. * If it should be found advisable also to purchase rather than to borrow the requisite tables, the So-
* The Committee is much indebted to James Barber, Esq. for arranging these purchases satisfactorily.
COUNCIL For 1840. 17
ciety will be in possession of all the means of arranging these interesting and useful exhibitions, with comparatively small expense except in the prizes, which may thus be made even more worthy of the gratifying competition already excited by these meetings.
Such are the principal facts, from which and the Treasurer’s accounts appended, the members willl earn the state and pro- spects of the Institution. On a review of their proceedings, the Council see no reason to fear that the Annual Meeting will impute to them either neglect of their interests, or a need- less extravagance in performing their commands. It has not been in the power of the Council to appropriate any funds to the purchase of Books or specimens of Natural History: the extension of the Garden, the Reparation of the Hospitium, the repairs and new constructions in the Museum, have left only the means of securing some of the rich remains of Eburacum which have been excavated in our sight, and which but for this timely effort might have been wholly lost to the City which ought to feel a more than common interest in every fragment of the arts of its once imperial owners.
If however the members shall now deem these spacious grounds sufficiently extended, and shall again turn their prin- cipal attention to that which should ever be the characteristic feature of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, the Museum of Natural History and Antiquities, and direct to this one channel the slender stream which is at our command, the blank spaces in our cabinets may be speedily filled, and these rooms become in every respect what they were intended to be, entirely worthy of the great patronage to which we owe the Edifice and the Grounds which belong to us, worthy of our own reputation, and the objects for which we were associated together.
THE TREASURER OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
IN ACCOUNT.
Dr. Cr.
1840, £. s. d. | 1839, December 31, £. & d@
Annual Subscriptions and Arrears By principal money owing offormer years - - - -478 0 0 to the Yorkshire In-
Annual Subscriptions of Ladies surance Company - 2500 0 0 and keys of the gardens - - 51 0 0| By principal money
For tickets of admission at1s.each 50 0 0 owing to Wm. Gray,
For Admission of 13 new Members 65 0 0 Esq. - - -1000 0 0
Rents of the Manor Shore Estate By seven principal sums and of the Marygate Houses - 97 9 6 of 502. owing to, seven:
Balance of the proceeds of the Hor- ‘ Members of the So- ticultural Exhibition - - - 48 2 6 ciety of mm BBO 00
For the use of the Tent- - - 15 0 0| Bybalancedue to Messrs.
Arrears of Subscriptions for the Swann & Co. this day 1457 2 3 purchase of skeletons - - - 10 0 0
Subscriptions to the Reparation of 5307 2 3 the Hospitium - - - -177 0 0} 1840.
Donation of the Proceeds of Six Crown Rent, oneyear - - - 106 8 Lectures, by the Rev. C. Well- Corporation Rent, ditto = le) 612 6 beloved - -.- = + 54 7 6| WaterRent- - - - - 500
Dee. 31. Poor Rates, Highway, Church, and
Yorkshire Insurance other Ratcs- i bie: - ‘= $3151 Company- - - 2500 0 0 Insurance, one year - - - § 0 @
William Gray, Esq. - 1000 0 0 Executors of the late James At-
Seven members 50/.each 350 0 0 kinson, Esq. - = = -« 500 0
Balance due to Messrs. Keeper of the Museum, one year’s Swann & Co, - - 1551 111 Salary- - - - - -100 0 6
Lodge Keeper, ditto - - - 1000 5401 111] Collector ah oe - - - 5600 Sub-Curator, on account of Salary, Labour in Garden, Incidents, &c. 215 4 2 One year’s Interest of 25002. to the Yorkshire Insurance Company - 100 0 0 Ditto of 10007. to Wm. Gray, Esq. 40 0 0 Interest to Messrs, Swann & Co. 6319 & Paid Bills, viz. G. Hodgson, Leading - 2819 0 J. F. Brown, Painter - 3317 0 J. Cluderay, Joiner - 48 1 5 W..Taylor, Mason - 20 11 11 W. Hill, Coalmerchant 19 2 6 J. Bowes, Bricklayer - 14 12 11 Noton & Son, Glaziers 13 12 5 Gas-lights - - -10 3 0 Wilson & Co. Printers 14 0 @ Ward, Ironmonger - 7 1 0 Turner, Plasterer - 8 211 J. Hill, Printer - - 716 0 Audited Feb. 1841. Sundry small bills - 771611 303 17 0 Hospitium Contracts- =~ - 200 9 6 £.6447 1 5 aa £.6447 1 5
ANALYSIS OF DISBURSEMENTS
DURING THE YEAR 1840.
Ordinary Expenses. Rent, Rates, &c. : a a ae ae eS Rent to the Crown _ ... 10 8 Rent to the Meer 612 6 Land Tax . 011 6 Water Rate 5 0 0 City Commissioners’ Rate 012 6 Poor Rates 26 12 0 Highway Rates 4 8 8 Church Rate, £1. 10s. 3d. ; Easter Dues ig." beh a Insurance . 5 0 0 $1.9, ¥ Salaries and W: Keeper of the Museum igs sxe! OO 1@,) O Sub-Curator dnt 2. OR 0 8 Servant and Cleaning Rooms ase gaat SEs Oe 0 Lodge-Keeper Sy Pa 44d AOE OG Labourer ... oh ee fet Oe 7, On O Collector ... res whe ea a | 253 0 0 Interest on Debt : Interest on ae Debt on Manor Shore ... 100 0 0 Interest on £100 wan 9340s Di Interest to Bankers for being overdrawn dbs, 8 DE 203 19 6 Museum : New Cases for Skeleton Room __.. 1210 0 Furniture, Painting, and Repairs ‘to Museum and Marygate Cottages eit Cm Wh aS ak Purchase and Preparation of Specimens 14 3 11 Expenses attending the procuring and removal of Antiquities 36 11 3 Opening the Museum to the Public on Whit- Monday and Whit-Tuesday _.... 3 3 3 178 3 2 Garden, Grounds, &c. : Fifty New Keys to. Garden Gate ... 6 5 0 Cultivation of Garden, Enlargement of Ditto, and removal of, and rebuilding Walls to te near the Hospitium and towards Marygate... 113 9 2 119 14 2 Library : Books and Binding 819 3 Printing, &c. : Printing... rts whe .. 2714 6 Stationery ... aie ep it an 118 5 Advertising “ie whe a 015 0 : 30 711 Incidents, including Coals, Coke, Gas, Postage, and Carriage. .. ii A ae 4315 7 £889 8 8 Extraordinary Expenses. ‘by rme repaid to James Atkinson’s Executors, by er of Annual Meeting, 1840 40 0 0 Annet 0 Gil the lagen of Hospitiuum, so far done * «». 200 9 6 250 10 6
£1139 19 2
RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEB. 2nd, 1841,
Wa. Hatrerp, Esg., F.G.S. 1n tHE Cuarr.
1. That the Rerorr of the Council be adopted and printed for the use of the Members.
2. That the Thanks of the Society be given to John Phillips, Esq. F.R.S. for his eminent services rendered to the Society, during the 15 years that he has been charged with the care of the Society’s Museum:
_ 3. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved, for the excellent discourses which he has delivered on the Antiquities of the Museum, and for the liberal donation of the proceeds thereof to the funds of the Institution.
4. That as it id ck to this Meeting that the arrears due to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society now amount to the sum of £200, the Council are ie op cee under the sanction and authority of this Meet- ing, immediately to take the necessary steps at their discretion enabling them, if possible, to collect such arrears, and to report the result of their applications to a future Meeting.
5. That Charles Hamilton Wake, Esq. 34th Native Infantry, East India Company’s Service, be elected an Honorary Member.
6. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Vice-Presidents and Members of the Council retiring from office.
7. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Treasurer and Secretaries, for their valuable services.
8. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Curators of the several departments of the Museum, for their services during the past year,
9. That the Council be again empowered on certain days to be se- lected by them during the present year, to permit Freez ApMission to the Museum and Gardens ro aL Persons; the mode of admission to to be regulated by the Council.
10. That the Regulations adopted by the Annual Meetings in 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, and 1840, for the ApMission oF StrancERS by the purchase of Tickets, be continued for the present year.
11. That the Resolutions of the last Annual Meeting, empowering the Council to authorize the holding of one or more HorticutturaL Meetrnes in the Society’s Gardens, be continued in force during the present year.
12. That the best Thanks of the Society be given to the Chairman and Committee of Management of the Horticultural Féte held in Au- gust last; and that they be respectfully requested to continue their valuable services for the year 1841.
MEMBERS OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, |
ELECTED IN 1840-41.
1840. Barnes, Robert, York. Carruthers, William John Arthington, Arthington Hail. Dobson, Rev. John, York. Duesbery, William Duesbery Thornton, Beverley. Hobson, George, York. Howard, Charles, York. Kaye, Sir John Lister Lister, Bart., Denton Park, Hudders- Jield, and York. Markham, Rev. Henry Spencer, Clifton, Notts. and York. Moore, Oswald Allen, York. Simpson, George, York. Thiselton, Charles Arthur, York. Thurnam, John, York.
1841.
Lascelles, Hon. Edwin, Harewood House. Laycock, Thomas, M.D. York.
Lloyd, George, Jun. Eastfield House. Ridsdale, George, Old Hall, Wakefield.
HONORARY MEMBERS ELECTED IN 1840-41.
Hincks, Rev. William, F.L.S.
1841.
Charles Hamilton Wake, 34¢h Native Infantry, East India Company's Service.
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS
TO THE
GENERAL MEETINGS.
Marcu 8, 1840.—Notice of Meteorological Observations in York- shire and Westmorland, in 1839, by Joun Puitires, F.R.S. and Joun Forp.
Arnit 7.—Notice of Meteorological Observations at Brandsby, in 1839, by F. Cuotme ey, Esq. F.H.S.
June 2,—Drawing and Description of Parhelia seen at Thirkle- by, near Thirsk, on the 19th April, 1839, by a Lady.
Dec. 1.—Remarks on Two Springs in Herefordshire, by the Rev. W. Taytor, F.R.S.
Jan. 5, 1841.—A Demonstration of Euclid III. 31, proposed by the Rev. W. Tayror, F.R.S. .
A Statement of Thermometrical and Hygrometrical Observations, made during a voyage on the Nile, in 1839, by W. Hatreivp, F.G.S.
DONATIONS
TO
THE SOCIETY’S MUSEUM.
GEOLOGY.
H. Bower, Esq. F.S.A. ...
C. Greaves, Esq. ...
James Hamerton, Esq. Lady Flora Hastings...
W. Hatfeild, Esq. ate
Rev. F. O Morris el — Payton, Esq. ( Dudiey )
George Pollard, Esq. Rev. C. Sykes, F.G.S.
Dr. Wake ...
Baldwin Wake, Jun. Esq.
Tusk of elephas giganteus, from Cheveley, near Newmarket, with molar teeth.
Plants from the sandstone near Harro- gate ; vermicular impressions on sand- stone.
Several fossil shells, from the strata of the Yorkshire coast.
Fossil fruits, from Herne Bay. Fossil shells, from Bredon, in Leicester. shire.
A series of fossil shells and echinida, from the tertiary rock of the Mokattam range in Egypt, collected by himself in 1939.
A specimen of clypeus sinuatus.
Specimen of Calymene Blumenbachii ; cast of the largest specimen of Caly- mene Blumenbachii yet found at Dud- ley.
A series of fossil plants, from Bradford.
Horn and bones of red deer, found at Owthorn, in Holderness.
Fine tetragonolepis, and remarkable fossil plant, from Lyme Regis.
Fossil plants, from Low Moor, near Brad- ford.
MINERALOGY.
John Bleckly wih --- Sulphate of lime, from the Yorksh. Wolds. Capt. Ivanitzky ... ... Vivianite in a bivalve shell, from the Crimea.
Samuel Powell, jun. Esq. Carbonate of lime, from the Gibbet Hill, Knaresborough.
ZOOLOGY.
VERTEBRATA.
R. H. Anderson, Esq. ... Xiphius gladius. The Archbishop of York... A ptarmigan. G. L. Fox, Esq. ... eee Reeve. Rev. W. V. Harcourt, F.R.S. Several in spirits. W. Hatfeild, Esq. F.G.S.... Egyptian reptilesin spirits; eggs of the ostrich ; fishes’ heads. Mr. H. Newcombe eee A common buzzard. John Swann, Esq. ». <A pied grouse. A dormouse. C. H. Wake, Esq., 34th An Indian coot. Native Infantry ANNULOSA. T. Meynell, Esq. jun. F.L.S. Several British Insects not previously in the Collection.
MOLLUSCA AND ZOOPHYTA.
F. J. Copsie, Esq. «-- Two corals.
Miss Hobson oe e. Cyprina, argonauta, and other recent shells.
Rey. F. O. Morris ... Several shells.
COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.
Earl of Enniskillen, F.R.S. Long bones of the hind legs of Irish elk. J. F. Lockwood ... .-« Injected preparation of a horse’s head.
ANTIQUITIES.
George Banks, Esq.
H. P. Cholmeley, Esq.
Churchwardens of St. Mar- tin’s, Coney-street, York
W. Hatfeild, Esq.
Rey. F. O. Morris... see
North of England Railway Company H. Robinson, Esq.
eee
— Rutter, Esq. ... Rev. C. Wellbeloved
York and North Midland Railway Company
An ancient canoe made out of an oak
tree, found at Stanley Ferry, near Wakefield.
A trifurcate Roman lamp, from the rail- way excavations at Toft Green.
Piece of embroidered velvet, formerly the pulpit cloth of the church.
Mummy of a female, obtained by the donor at Thebes, in 1839. y
185 impressions of seals and antique gems.
Jet pins, &c., stone coffins, a small leaden coffin.
Impression of seal of Merchant Adven- turers’ Company of the City of York, found among the ruins of Shap abbey, in Westmoreland.
Bulla of Pope Nicholas.
Copper Roman pin, found in railway ex- cavations.
Roman remains, from the excavation at the terminus, viz. a lead coffin, contain-
ing a skeleton ; Roman glass, pottery, &e,
— Kell, Esq. Samuel Kenrick, Esq. Rev. J. Kenrick ...
COINS.
Sticas from Hexham. Twenty Roman and English coins, Three coins, found in the York and North
Midland Railway excavations. c
26 MISCELLANEOUS DONATIONS.
John me Esq. F.R.S. Twenty-five Roman brass coins, found in
Rey. C. Wellbeloved
the railway excavations. Gold coin of Carinus, with thirty silver
sticas, found in the railway excava~ tions.
THE GARDEN.
Mr. J. F. Brown ... W. Oldfield, Esq. J. Roper, Esq. oe
Six loads of manure. Eight loads of manure. Six loads of peat.
Major Yarburgh ... es. One load of peat.
Mr. Clarkson eee eee 50 Roses.
Mr. Bearpark ... 50 Roses. MISCELLANEOUS.
H. Baines .. oes Mr. J. Bleckly ...
Mr. J. F. Brown ...
Mr. J. Cluderay ...
F. J. Copsie, Esq.
Model of Roman bath discovered in the railway excations at York.
skal Specimen of burnt wheat, found after the
The York Glass Company
S. Hailstone, Esq. F.L.S.
fire at Appleton mill.
The painting of the boundary gates; the painting of a fountain and two of the exhibition rooms.
Fragments of wood and masses of bell metal, from the ruins of York Minster.
A pair of handsome boundary gates for the garden.
Bust of Flaxman.
Specimens of glass, and the materials used in its composition at the York Works.
Mass of silicated substance, the residuum of burnt hay.
a
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 27
W. Hatfeild, Esq. F.G.S. G. Hobson, Esq. ... Mr. Alderman Hotham ...
Teachers of the York Medi- cal School R. R. Pearce, Esq. ove
Miss Preston as Sea Rey. C. Wellbeloved
The dress of a Nubian female.
A garden chair.
A curious old carving in wood, represent- ing the coopers’ arms.
Their medal in bronze.
Carved image taken from a church at Trun.
Beads, cloth, comb, &c., from Aheita.
Model of part of Hadrian’s vallum and camp, at the station supposed to be Alione.
THE
Society of Arts
Royal Astronomical Society:
Professor Bache, (the Author )
H. Baines .. son vee J. Bleckly ... oe ove
A body of Subscribers, through Mr. Bleckly Birmingham Institution ... Botanical Society of Edinb. British Association, for the Advancement of Science Churchwardens of St. Mar- tin’s, Coney-street
LIBRARY.
Vol. of the Transactions of the Society.
Greenwich Observations, for 1835—8.
Edinburgh Observations, Vol. I. IT.
Report on Education in Europe, pre- sented to Girrd College, in Philadel- phia, in 1839.
Flora of Yorkshire, 8vo, 1840.
Introductory Discourse delivered to the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, 1814. Also some Papers relating to the Literary and Philoso- phical Society of York, a Society in ex- istence previous to the formation of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
A Portrait of the Queen, engraved after the Picture, by
Report for 1838-9.
Report for 1840.
Report for 1839.
Black Letter Bible.
28 DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
Royal Cornwall Polytech- nic Society
John Dunn, Esq, (the Author )
Dr. Fitton ... eee
Professor Forbes, (the Author )
Geological Society, London Mr. W. Hobson ...
John Hogg, Esq. F.L.S. (the Author )
Leeds Literary and Philo- sophical Society Executors of John Maude, Esq.
Rey. F. O. Morris...
G. Poulson, Esq. (the Author )
Rey. W. Taylor, F.R.S. ...
J.Thurnham, Esq. (the Author )
Whitby Literary and Phi-
losophical Society Rev. Dr. Young .,-
Report for 1837. On the Vital Statistics of Scarborough.
Review of Lyell’s Geology.
On the Diminution of Temperature, with Height in the Atmosphere, at different seasons of the year, 1840.
Experiments on Terrestrial Magnetism, 1840.
Remarks on Heat, 4th Series, 1840.
Proceedings of the Session 1839-40.
A Drawing of an Egyptian Mummy, in the Museum of the Literary and Phi- losophical Society, at Leeds.
On Spongilla.
Report for 1839-40.
Addition to the Work of John Maude, Esq. on North America.
His Work, entitled Guide to the Arrange- ment of British Birds.
Several Numbers of the ‘ Naturalist.’
History and Antiquities of Holderness.
Catalogus Stirpium et Fossilium Silesie. On Aneurisms.
Report for
His Work, entitled ‘ Scriptural Geology.”
Thomas Wilson and Sons, High-Ousegate, York.
neat 13 MAR 7288
MONTHLY MEETINGS IN ig41—1842
1841. Octopen . . . |
1841. March ~ . . 2 § wees APRIL . . . . 6 | ome NovVEMBER. . . 2 oem May... 2. 4 | DEceMBER . me 9 me JUNE. >... 1 1842, January... 4
Annual Murtine, Feprvary 1, 1842. _
2
RULES OF ADMISSION
TO THE MUSEUM AND GARDENS. Pe eRaNe 1. Members of the Society (and Contributors of £15. and upwards tothe — Building Fund,) have the privilege of personal admission, and of PERSONALLY inTRODUCING Visitors to the Museum and Gardens, at all times when they are open. tees ee II. Members (and Contributors of £50.) have the further privilege of giving to Visitors Wriiten Orpers of admission, which must be signed with the name of the Member or Contributor, and bear the name of the Person to be
admitted. Such written orders are received at the Lodge every day (Sunday excepted) between the hours of Ten a. m. and Four p. m..in Winter ; and Ten a.m. and Eight p.m. in Summer} and must be left with the Lodge-keeper. N.B. He is forbidden to accept money from Visitors. Betas cs Jalgaon
III. Lapies who are admitted by the Council as Annual Subsenthers of £15 ; i i
(or who have contributed £10. or upwards to the Building Fund,) have the
privilege of personal admission, and of personaLuy introducing LADIES as oc- casional Visitors. ee aee eo Sat Pasi IV. Srrancers may obtain (at Mr. Chapman’s, Coney-street, and at Misco
Wilson’s, Lendal, near the Museum Gate) Apmisston Tickers, price One Shil-
ling for each person ; which will entitle them to admittance at all times when the Museum and Gardens are respectively open (Sundays excepted). The tickets must be left at the Lodge. eel hemor ge Pak 2 agi 7 eee tel
V. The adult inmates of the Famtiy of a Member (or of a Contributor of £50.) have the privilege of personal admission whenever the Museum and. Gardens are open. big ey Se eare alse
VI. Members, and others entitled to personal admission, may obtain a Key cea of the Private Entrances to the Garden, on application to. Mr, Baincs at the Museum, and payment of Five Shillings for the current year ; such payment
to be due annually in advance on the Ist of January, while the key is retained. 4 é
VII. Curtpren are not to bé admitted to the Museum exeept inthe com- — pany of a Member or Lady Subscriber, nor to be left in the Garden, except under the care of their Parerits, or other responsible person. rare ae
VIII. The GarpeEns are open daily till dusk. On Sundays there is no ad- mission between the hours of Fen and Twelve. The Museum is open daily — (except Sunday) between the hours of Ten and Four. ho
IX. The Sub-Curator, Mr. Baines, is ot empowered and required by the Council to see these regulations enforeed,and to prevent injury to the Garden, — Abbey Walls, and other antiquarian monuments. BEATE rb oac
ie Fae ge AS
BN NAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL YORKSHIRE
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
FOR
MDCCCXLI.
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING,
THOMAS WILSON AND SONS, HIGH-OUSEGATE.
1842.
TRUSTEES
OF THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT.
HIS GRACE, EDWARD, LORD ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
GEORGE, EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G.
CHARLES WILLIAM, EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S., F.S.A.
THOMAS PHILIP, EARL DE GREY.
HON. axo VERY REV. HENRY HOWARD, D.D. DEAN OF LICHFIELD.
SIR WILLIAM LAWSON, BART. F.S.A.
FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ. F.S.A.
ROBERT DENISON, ESQ.
REV. WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S.
WILLIAM HATFEILD, ESQ. F.G:S.
RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
PATRONESSES
OF
The Borkshire Philosophical Society. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. | Her Royrat Hicuness Tot DUCHESS OF KENT.
PATRONS.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S.
EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F.R.S.
THE VISCOUNT MORPETH.
THE LORD STOURTON.
THE LORD WHARNCLIFFE.
THE LORD FEVERSHAM.
THE LORD WENLOCK.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1842.
PRESIDENT : Eary Firzwiti1ay, F.R.S.
VICE-PRESIDENTS :
SrrerHen Becxwitu, M.D. Rev. STEPHEN CREYKE. GerorcE Goxpiz, M.D.
Rev. Joun GRAHAM.
Rev. Wm. Vernon Harcourt. Witiram Hartreixp, F.G.S. Rev. Joun Keynicx. Batpwin Waxe, M.D.
TREASURER:
Rosert Davies.
COUNCIL:
Elected 1840 .... Tuomas ALLIs, Favit James Copsig, Witiram Gray, sun., F.G.S. Rev. CuoarLes WELLBELOVED, Elected 1841 .... Rev. T. Ecrrton, F.G.S. Rev. W. Hey, W. D. LittLepate, W. F. Rawpon, M.D. Elected 1842 .... James ALLEN, Joun Puituirs, F.R.S., G.S. Henry Rosinson, Wa. WuytTEHEAD.
SECRETARY:
Tuomas MEYNELL, JuN. F.L.S. a3
Vi OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
CURATORS: NATURAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT. GEOLOGY ee a. J. PHILLIPs, F.R.S.,G.S. MINERALOGY .... ... W. Harreinp, F.G.S. ZooLoGy—VERTEBRATA ...* ANNULOSA .. TL. MEYNELL, Jun. F.L.S. Mot.usca AND te ZOOPHYTA CompaRATIVE ANATomy .... THomas ALLIs. Botany—GENERAL .. Wm. D. Hussanp. ° Bririsy ... ©. A. Moore. ANTIQUITIES Fae «.. Rev. C. WELLBELOVED: Lisrary and MSS. we. JOSEPH Munsy. LABORATORY Si ... T. H. Barxer. OBSERVATORY Lis ... W.L. Newman,F.R.Ast.S. METEoROLOGICAL INsTRUM. JoHN Forp.
SUB-CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM:
Henry Barnes.
* Those departments, for which no Curators are specially named, are con- sidered to be under the direction of the Secretary and the Sub-Curator.
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
TO THE
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY ON THE Ist OF FEBRUARY, 1842.
TWELVE years have passed since the Yorkshire Philosophi- cal Society emerged from a confined locality, to take posses- sion of this ample edifice, and to act the part which had been prescribed for it—the part of a Scientiric INSTITUTION FoR THE CounTy oF Yor«K: to urge and to aid its members in their philosophical pursuits; to cooperate with zeal and good faith in the exertions of other Societies; to feel and be stimulated by the spirit of our age and country; to share in all enterprizes for the advancement of knowledge; and always to welcome with sympathy and encouragement every attempt, from every quarter, to unfold the Natural History and Anti- quities of Yorkshire.
Within those years how many important circumstances have occurred of a nature to test the sincerity of these views, and to affect the power of performing them !' Burdened at the commencement with a debt of £1500. how was this Insti- tution to contend with the cost of furnishing large apart- ments, laying out extensive grounds, providing laboratories and observatories, and restoring monuments of ancient art ? The answer contained in this building, and in these grounds, is both encouraging and warning ; it is the public sympathy with our objects, the public confidence in our proceedings, which have enriched our Museum, enlarged and beautified
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our Grounds, and saved from ruin some of the fairest archi- tecture of which ancient York can boast ; and that sympathy and confidence will never be withdrawn so long as we can honestly demand them.
Influenced by this conviction, the Society has continued and even extended in the present year the facilities of access to its Museum and Grounds; these have been visited by a greater than the usual number of strangers; twice opened for Horticultural Exhibitions, and twice for unreserved ad- mission of thousands of gratified visitors. But the most im- portant. occasion when the usual Rules of Admission were relaxed or suspended, was that of the assembling, in August, of the Provincial Medical Association of England, to whose use this edifice and its contents were freely yielded for the days of their meeting in York.. The collections of the So- ciety then inspected at leisure drew forth expressions of high approbation, and the friendly interest which the Society ma- nifested in the success of the Medical Association was fully appreciated and acknowledged by that distinguished body.
In the same spirit, and encouraged by this success, the Council would wish to welcome the Agricultural Association of Yorkshire, whicli has appointed its meeting, for 1842, to be held in this City in the month of August. The lapse of years has also brought within probability of fulfilment the expectation and desire of this Society to receive a meeting of that great British Association for the Advancement of Sci- ence, which, beginning within these walls in 1831, has held a prosperous and useful course through the large Cities and Towns of the Empire, and may now be induced by suitable
invitations to re-assemble its numerous and distinguished members in Yorkshire.
A proposition that this meeting should authorize an invi- tation, in the name of the Society, to the British Association
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to appoint a meeting in Yorkshire for 1843, and to make choice of the City of York for the place of assembly, has been adopted by the Council, and will be brought regularly before it at the close of this address ; and the Council have already taken steps to” ascertain what degree of cooperation for the - attainment of this object may be expected from the other Philosophical Institutions of the County. It ought by no means to be the desire of the Society that the Association should be welcomed to York with unnecessary parade or lavish expenditure, but the members will naturally demand for this national scientific assembly such preparations as its scientific objects require.
They will also inquire whether the state of our Museum, and the general conduct of our establishment, are such as to fit them for a second inspection by such a body of Naturalists and Philosophers, and, if any deficiencies are observed in any
department, what are the measures proposed by the Council to remedy them.
By the attention of the Curators the Museum is placed in a condition to deserve more than a cursory examination ; it is rich in the treasures of nature and the monuments of art; but it still labours under deficiency of means for proper dis- play and orderly arrangement of the valuable donations which continue to be received from near and distant friends. The duties connected with the classification and conservation of the numerous specimens of Natural History and Antiquities ‘have been performed, in many respects, to the satisfaction of the Society ; and if some part of these collections remains in an incomplete or unarranged state, this is not owing to any remissness of the several gentlemen to whose care they are entrusted, but to the actual want of space for suitable dis- tribution of the objects.
The collection of Organic Remaitis has been entirely re-
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arranged, and thus space is gained for exhibiting the fossils of the Silurian System which Mr. Murchison’s labours have rendered so interesting, and of which a large donation from the Tortworth district, presented by Thomas Weaver, Esq. has furnished a valuable and characteristic illuStration. *
The collection of Vertebrated Animals has received some excellent additions ; chiefly of birds, from Australia, presented by the Rev. Robert Affleck, Bart. and from Africa and Europe by Giles Munby, Esq. which are undergoing the process of preparation for the cases. The British Birds have been en- tirely rearranged ; but the now large and valuable collections of Foreign Birds and Reptiles require the scrupulous attention of a naturalist well versed in this branch of knowledge.
The collections of Comparative Osteology have been aug- mented by the purchase of sixteen skeletons prepared by Mr. Allis, who at the same time presented the bones of an elephant and some other gifts to the Society. From Philip Davies Cooke, Esq. we have received the skeleton of a Quagga, the head of a Zebu, and the body of an Alpaca. These additions are such as, when mounted, to render necessary some further cases for this branch of the collection.
Few additions have been made to the Invertebral Animals in the Museum; but the Council have reason to think that an important accession to this department is prepared for us by Mr. James Backhouse, who, while engaged in long and zealous missionary labours, found leisure to exercise his love of natural history, and to remember this Museum, on the shores of Australia and Van Dieman’s Land.
Adequately to display our collection of foreign Mollusca
* Mr. Weaver’s valuable memoir on the district of Torture may be seen in the Geological Transactions.
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and Zoophyta, augmented by this new supply, will require new cases.
The arrangement of the British Herbaria, begun in so excellent a manner by Mr. Hincks, has been extended, and the Curator reports, in addition to this satisfactory progress, in matters so essential to the credit of the Institution, that much activity prevails in the cultivation of British Botany in Yorkshire, and that several new localities of rare plants, im- portant in reasoning on their geographical distribution, have been detected near York. Among these the Iceland Moss, (Cetraria islandica) believed to be new to England, was ex- hibited at one of the monthly meetings with the so called Reindeer Moss (Gladonia rangiferina), Dicranum bryoides, and a species of Leskea * new to Britain.
The Garden has been provided with a considerable number of rare plants; and the new fountain, presented by Mr. Walker, has been erected in an appropriate situation; but the completion of the grounds near the Hospitium, and the making of a drain there, have been postponed until further steps can be taken for the reparation of that building. During the past year, as on a former occasion, the Hospitium has ‘been found of great service in giving full effect to the elegant exhibitions of fruits and flowers, which may now be viewed as an established part of the annual gratifications provided by the Society for the public.
It is recommended by the Committee which undertook the laborious direction of these beautiful exhibitions in the past year, that the time to be selected for the Horticultural Fete in 1842 be fixed with reference to the meeting of the Agri- cultural Association in August.
* Discovered by Mr. Spruce of the York Collegiate School.
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Of Coins, the most interesting donation is one presented to the Society, by command of Her Majesty the Queen, through Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan- caster, consisting of a selection from the coins found at Cuerdale near Preston. The other Antiquarian Accumula- tions, mostly from localities in York, and illustrative of cir- cumstances important in the history of our country, have now become so abundant as to defy all attempt at arrangement without some entirely new adaptation, not only of the cases but even of the rooms, an object for which the proceeds of the valuable Discourses delivered last year by the Curator were placed at the Society’s disposal.
These large collections will, it is hoped, acquire a new in- terest from the publication (now speedily expected) of a work long contemplated by the Curator, and containing the result of his diligent studies into the ancient history of ‘ Epuracum.’ In the progress of this work the Council takes a lively interest, not only because the execution of it will fulfil a part of the most cherished objects of the Institution, but because much of the material evidence on which it rests will be found within our walls.
Among the donations to the Library are the continuations of the valuable Transactions of several learned Societies, and a gift of much interest, viz. the ‘ Annales des Mines de Rus- sie,’ presented by Gen. Tscheffkine.
The Laboratory is in an effective state; and the Curator, to whom the Society is indebted for this improvement, has found it serviceable in his lectures to the York School of Medicine.
The Observatory has been in regular operation, as far as the state of the weather and the condition of the instruments would permit. The Curator reports that some considerable’ improvement is desirable in respect of the mounting of the
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telescope, and that a larger transit instrument ought to be placed on the excellent foundations which have been laid.
Besides the register of the Meteorological Phenomena at York, of which the subjoined table gives the mean monthly and annual results, * the Curator of this branch of the So- ciety’s pursuits has undertaken some researches on the dis- tribution of temperature in the parts of the atmosphere near the ground, of which on a future occasion the result may be presented to the members. The Council, desirous of en- couraging in York the prosecution of the interesting class of inquiries which respect climate and weather, regret that hitherto no sufficient means have been established here for registering the force and direction of the wind. ‘The instru- ments of Whewell and Osler which are at this moment re- cording every momentary variation of the aerial movements over many and distant points of the globe, might, if placed
* METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER—YORK, 1841.
Barometer. Rain. Thermometer. | “ g 53 & : 81s : oO 'o|¢_ e i) : ad 1 3 i) $s |ekt oS 2 \2 | ® Hig) 8 a | & ly S| aa wo | § 8 A i a | Ai o 4 =| a 18 ro BE fae BD a eb ae he a | 3 SS lie om. & a le |8 (8 }Slals 218 2c > ei 41% Sc iaia|/818{|43] lee 6 o | .o0 A 2/1/2f/2|8 op | & cess 3 me pa ee Pe PO SP ee aa Jan. |29.79/30.36}29.00) 1 70 36.8 27.9 132.4) 499| 4°) 92 8 Feb. /|29.89|30.54/29.16) 1.36 40.5 |31.7 136.) | 51 | 24 | 16 | 10 March |29.88/30.53}29.23) 1.45 54.3 |37.3 145.9 | 67 | 30 | 10 | 12 April {29.88 30.37|29.47| 1 02|54.8 |37.8 [46.3 | 70 | 29 | 10 | 14 May = |29.90/30.43'29.10) 2 88/64.6 |45.2 |58.8 77 | 385 0 | 14 June |29.98)30.33/29.63} 1.20/63.2:147.2 155.2 | 72 | 42 |... | 10 July |29.89|30.30/29.32 3 47|64.1 150.1 [57.4] 73 | 45 |... | 18 Aug. |29.89/30.32/29.50 2.72167.0 (51.5 |59.3 | 75 | 44] ... | 18 Sept. /|29.81/30.26 29.00} 2 81)63.5 |44.2 |53.9| 79 | 35 | ... | 11 Oct. 29.53/30 10 28.78 3.56/52.1 |41.2 |46.7 | 59 | 32 228 Nov. 1|29.74'30.59 28.76) 2.59/44.7 34.4 39.5| 56 | 23 | 17 |-10 Dec, 29.63 30.20 29.03 1.60)/42.3 |34.0 (38.2 | 51 | 22 | 16 | 15 29.81 26.36 47.5 93 153 Average of Inches in Mean the Year. the Year temp,
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on this Museum, contribute much to the general amount of information on this important subject, and add a fund of gratification to the reasonable curiosity of our members.
The Council would wish to point out to meteorological ob- servers in Yorkshire, the propriety of their taking part in the great system of combined periodical observations proposed by Sir John Herschel in 1835, and continued at his request, and by the exertions of M. Quetelet, by most eminent observers in various parts of Europe *.
It appears from this survey that our collections have again outgrown the means of orderly and appropriate exhibition. The time is come for desiring to occupy with ranges of new cases the few walls and limited area of floors still vacant. We require drawers for a numerous suite of geological specimens, ranges of vertical cases for the skeletons of birds, and the objects of antiquarian curiosity, and tables to display the Foreign Mollusca and Zoophyta. These are our wants in the Museum ; it is the opinion of the Council, that some change should be made in the system of warming the building, and that some steps should be taken towards providing the meteor- ological and astronomical observers with additional instru-
ments.
* The observations requested by Sir John Herschel are fixed for the solstices and equinoxes ; that is to say, on the 21st December, 21st March, 2ist June, 21st September, every hour from six in the morning of the 2ist, to six in the morning of the following day. M. Quetelet desires thirty-six hours observations, viz. from six a.m. of the 21st, to 6 p.m. of the 22nd. In both sets of observations, if the 21st be Sunday, the observations are to commence on the 22nd, and in M. Quetelet’s Series, if the 22nd fall on a Sunday, the observations take place on the 20th and 21st. M. Quetelet has recently given conveniently digested tables of the results communicated to him for 1841 ; but though his list includes twenty-four stations in Europe, there is no contri- bution from England. Budletin de ? Acad. Royale de Bruxelles Tom. VIII. Re-
port of the Commitice of the Royal Society, 1840.
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The alterations required for the most immediately pressing of all these wants, the appropriation of larger space for the collection of antiquities, are fortunately inexpensive, and may be entered upon without hesitation; but before this meeting can be called upon to consider the propriety of authorizing the expenditure of any considerable sum for other objects, it is necessary to advert to the state of the Society’s finances.
On the 3lst December, 1840, the Society was indebted for money borrowed to purchase land and houses, and for the several objects of the Institution, the sum of £5401. 1s. 11d., of which £1551. 1s. 11d. was a floating balance borrowed of the bank at 5 per cent., the remainder being at 4 per cent. The floating balance now due to the bank is £1321. 11s. 8d.
The sum of £63. 14s. 6d. has been received for admission tickets ; but this sum, though larger than the payments in any previous year, affords but a very inadequate estimate of the total number of strangers who have visited the Museum.
The executors of the late Eustachius Strickland, Esq. have paid to the Society’s account the legacy bequeathed to it by that early and lamented friend of our Institution. This ge- nerous gift is unconditional ; but the Council presume that the meeting will follow out the recommendation contained in the last Report, and authorize them to appropriate this money to some object which would have been approved by the donor, and which may long preserve the memory of his taste and generosity.
The Council have had to regret that the Curator of An- tiquities was prevented by illness from performing his intention of favouring the Society with a second series of his admirable discourses on the Antiquities of Yorkshire, embracing the
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Monastic Remains of the County ; but they are in expectation that this desirable object will be accomplished in the ensuing autumn. ‘The only public lectures delivered in the Museum since the last Report, were on the Phenomena of Sound by Mr. Robert Addams. This gentleman will probably be able to present some popular illustrations of the Erzecrric TELE- GrapPH of Wheatstone, and some other modern discoveries in the month of April; the Council are moreover glad to an- nounce that Professor Phillips has proposed to give four lectures on some of the fundamental truths of Moprrn Grotoey with theoretical inferences, and practical applications, in the month of March; and that Mr. Newman and Mr. Barker have expressed their willingness to oblige the Society by similar explanations of some points of AsTRONOMICAL and CHEMICAL science.
On this occasion the Council announce with regret the final withdrawal from office of the present Secretaries (Prof. Phillips, and Mr. Henry Robinson,) who, animated by earnest and sustained devotion to the objects for which we are united, have harmoniously performed the duties intrusted to them through many years. * ‘The Council have unwillingly been compelled to yield to the reasons which induced these gentle- men to demand a release from what must ever prove an anxious labour ; satisfied that this Society will always receive in another form the benefit of their knowledge and experience, and well pleased to be able to recommend for the approbation of the meeting, as their successor, one so well qualified as Mr. Thomas Meynell to conduct the scientific and ordinary busi- ness of the Institution.
* Professor Phillips was elected in 1830, Mr. Robinson in 1837,
THE
TREASURER OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
IN ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1841.
Dr.
1841,
Annual Subscriptions and Arrears and Admission of new Members 579 0 9
Ladies’ subscriptions, and keys. of
£.8% 4.
garden ol, whe oe o> OG Se O Ticketsatls.each- - - - 6314 6 Rents: << ene eye, 931007 6 Useofthe Tent - - - +17 50 Legacy, late E. Strickland, Esq. - 89 0 0 Subscriptions to the Hospitium - 5710 0 Ditto, boundary wall - -.- 3100 Mr. Addams’s Lectures- - ~ 16 8-0 Gas Light for Evening Meetings - 110 0 Dee. 31.
Permanent Debt, viz. Yorkshire Insurance
Company- - ~- 2500 0.0 William Gray, Esq. - 1000 0 0 Seven members50i.each 350 0 6
—— 3850 0 0 Balance overdrawn Messrs. Swann & Co. Slst Dec. 1841 - - - ~132111 8 £.6146 11 8
Audited 31st Jan. 1842, T. ALLIS,
Cr. 1841, £. 8. ad Permanent Debt, viz. Yorkshire Insurance Company - - ~ 2500 0 0 Wm. Gray, Esq.- -1000 0 0 Seven Members 502.each 350 0 0 3850 0 0 Balance overdrawn Messrs, Swann and Co. Dec. 31st,1840 - -1551 111 Crown Rents- - - 108 Corporation Rent ~ 612 6 Insurance -~ -« -« 500 Interest - - » 20413 0 Gate Keeper = tw OOD Collector - - +» 500 Sub-Curator, onaccount 200 0 @ ———— EY . 432 6 2 Sundry Bills, viz. Earthen Ware - - 22 8 QO Mr. Allis - -~ + 5019 3 Mr. Robinson - ~- 1913 0 Mr. Phillips - »- 814 9 Mr. Bailliere - - 613 0 Mr. Hill - - - 2100 J.Cluderay += + 2715 0 Wilson&Sons- - 14410 Noton& Son ~« +» 1400 Gas-light Co. - - 15 5 6 J.F. Brown - - 9 910 Gravel - = 714 0 Mr. Addams - ~ 240 0 H.Chapman - - 813 0 Sundry small bills - 68 2 3 313 3 7 £.6146 11 8 7 Sane
ANALYSIS OF DISBURSEMENTS DURING THE YEAR 1841.
Ordinary Expenses,
Rent, Rates, &c. : 62d £2 Rent to the Crown oe ee Okee Rent to the Corporation rs 612 6 Poor Rates, Highway Rates, and Land Tax ... 3018 4 Insurance and water Rent... raven nl Dias S570 48:16 6 Salaries and Wages : Sis | Sub-Curator ae ate Ae 00: i HD ‘Servant ... ern Bie he ‘seal eee ie. _ Lodgekeeper nine ty bie wer OPAL ee Labourer eee Ws ee 2. EE ABED Collector ap gee soe 407 Occasional Labourers oe ies ue f 1 aa 184 8 0 Interest on Debt rp hate te Interest on Mortgage Debt... i (os 10 Fe Interest on £1000 ody AO SO Interest to Bankers for being overdrawn a@ 084.43 -0 204 13 0 Museum, Garden, Grounds, &c. : Painting and General Repairs ed Pa ec oe Purchase and Preparation of Specimens Peale BN Rae: Fountain. 2 irs one £2) ee OED Observatory aes in Jes 410 6 Gravel and Leading vet Se 6 9-16'*'9 155 7 11 Library : : Books and Binding ee pee nae 21 9.0 Incidentals : Printing, Advertising, and coor le pret Wat bi Ua Coals, Gas Light, and Coke.. des, BOO DAG Postages, Carriage, and Sundries... Wah + ee Oe : 88 12 4 703 6 9 Extraordinary Expenses. China Service for Horticultural Fetes . es 22.3.9 Mr, Addams’s Lectures ove ae 24 0 0
£749 9 9
RESOLUTIONS
PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEB. 1, 1842.
1. That the Report of the Council be adopted and printed for the use of the Members.
2. That the cordial Thanks of the Society are due, and are hereby rendered to John Phillips, Esq. F. R.S., and Henry Robinson, Esq. for their long, zealous, and most effective services in the laborious discharge of the important office of Secretaries to the Institution.
3. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Vice-Presidents and Members of the Council retiring from office ; and to the Treasurer, and also to the Curators of the several departments of the Museum, for their invaluable services.
4. That Lord Feversham be requested to become a Patron of the Society.
5. That this Meeting authorize the Council to present an invitation to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at its ap~ proaching meeting at Manchester, to appoint its meeting for 1843 to be held in York, at any time after the middle of August in that year, provided the Council see reason to believe that subscriptions ean be raised, sufficient to justify the Society in guaranteeing the necessary ex~ pense.
‘6. That the Council be authorized to make application to the public authorities in York for their concurrence in the invitation to the Bri- tish Association for the Advancement of Science.
7. That the Council be empowered, on certain days, to be selected by them, during the present year, to permit free admission to the Mu~ ‘seum and Gardens to all persons ; the mode of admission to be regulated. by the Council.
8. That the Regulations adopted by the Annual Meetings in 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, and 1841, for the Admission of Strangers by the purchase of Tickets, be continued for the present year.
9. That the Resolution of the last Annual Meeting, empowering the Council to authorize the holding one or more Horticultural Meetings in the Society’s Gardens, be continued in force during the present year,
10. That the best Thanks of the Society be given to the Chairman and Committee of Management of the Horticultural Fetes held last year ; and that they be respectfully requested to continue their value able services for the year 1842.
SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
ELECTED IN 1841—42.
1841.
The Hon. Edwin Lascelles, Harewood House.
George Lloyd, Jun. Eastfield House, York.
Thomas Laycock, M.D. York.
George Ridsdale, Old Hall, Wakefield.
Capt. John Bentham, York.
William Hartley, York.
Joseph Clarke, York.
Richard Monckton Milnes, M.P. Fryston Hail, Ferrybridge. William Noton, York.
HONORARY MEMBER, ELECTED FEB. 2, 1841.
Charles Hamilton Wake, 34th Native Infantry East India Company's Service. 1842. Henry Claridge, York. Capt. Graves, Clifton, York. William Gott, Leeds. Alexander Browne, Beilby Grange, Wetherby. Mark Holman Shephard, York.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS TO THE
GENERAL MEETINGS.
Marcxu 2, 1841,—James Hamerton, Esq. of Hellifield Peel, read a Paper on the best methods of planting and procuring Forest Trees, which he illustrated by specimens of different varieties of Timber in “their several states of perfection and decay.
_ Avrit 6.—Observations on a Roman Sepulchral Monument, in the Museum of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by O‘CaLLacuan, Esq. Assistant Surgeon, 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards.
May 4.—Meteorological Observations made at York, by Joun Forp.
| Jan. 4, 1842.—The Rev. Jonn Granam, V. P., read a Paper, containing his own Observations on the Geology of Boulogne-sur-Mer, and the opposite coast of Sussex.
DONATIONS
TO
THE SOCIETY’S MUSEUM.
GEOLOGY.
Thomas Allis ee
Rey. John Graham eee
Mr. Hands, ( Micklegate, York )
William C. Hewitson, Esq.
Dr. Lee, Hartwell wes
William Oldfield, Esq.
Mr. Penrice, (Elmbridge, Worcester ) John Phillips, F.R.S., G.S.
Mr. R. Ripley, ( Whitby )...
T. Weaver, F.R.S., G.S. (Lendon )
Shells, from the lias of Gloucestershire ; gervillia and hippopodium ponderosum, from Tewkesbury.
Ammonites, from Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Fragments of large ammonites, from Spee~ ton, Yorkshire.
Specimens of retepore, millepore, and en- crinites, from a sandstone quarry, near Harrogate.
Several plants, from the coal formation.
Geological specimens, from Madeira.
Fossils, from the Portland. oolite, vale of Aylesbury.
The paddle of a Saurian in lias, from the Yorkshire coast.
Fossilized wood, from Whitby,
Fossils, from Dudley.
Geological specimens, from the “ Corn- stone” and “ Ludlow rocks,” near Usk and Caerleon.
Belemnites elongatus.
Cast of a Saurian.
250 minerals and fossils, illustrative of the Silurian Strata of Tortworth, in Gloucestershire.
MINERALOGY.
— V. Drury, Esq.
Wn. Hobson, Esq. ( York )
Rev. Francis O. Morris, ( Ordsall, Doncaster )
A specimen of yellow ochre, from a quarry at Shotover Hill, Oxfordshire.
Pyrites, in slate.
Marbles and minerals, 107 in number.
ZOOLOGY.
Rey. SirRobertA fileck, Bart.
(Dalham Hall, Newmar- ket, Prebendary of York)
Thomas Allis aoe
Mrs. Carter, (New Bruns- wick )
Philip Davies Cooke, Esq.
F.G.S8. ( Owston, Doncas- ter )
Charles Jas. Hanson, Esq.
(York)
‘VERTEBRATA.
56 skins of birds, from New Holland, in- cluding twelve parrots, three cockatoos, male rifle bird, bronze-winged pigeon, &e,
Two rose-coloured grosbeaks.
The bones of the elephant ; ditto of the tapir ; ditto of the nylghau.
A large collection of prepared specimens of the intestines of birds and quadru- peds.
20 bottles or cases, containing reptiles and preparations of other animals, in spirits ; skeleton of the woodpecker.
Bombycilla Carolinensis.
The alpaca, recently dead.
The skeleton of the quagga. The head of the zebu.
9 British birds.
The skins of a stoat and squirrel.
24
Mr. W. Hardman...
W. C. Harland, Esq. M.P.
Thos. Meynell, jun. Esq...
Giles Munby, Esq. oe
Joshua Oldfield, Esq. Mrs. Short, ( York ) ove
Thomas Allis ey as Rev. Francis O. Morris ...
BOTANY.
The head of a porpoise.
Egg of a goose, containing another smaller one, an egg within an egg.
Curlew.
The following birds : gypaeter, capercail- zie, coracias, grouse, creeper, and two musk rats.
Flamingo, glossy ibis, and partridge, from Africa.
Opossum.
The skin of a large boa constrictor .
ANNULOSA.
Several specimens of British moths. Several foreign insects.
MOLLUSCA AND ZOOPHYTA.
Thomas Allis mu ivi
Primnoa lepadifera, from the North Sea.
Miss Hobson, (Petergate, 'Two cases of Foreign and British shells.
York )
Dr. Maclagan, Regt. Cavalry Four specimens, three species of Starfish.
Depot, York
Thomas Meynell, Jun. Esq.
F.L.S.
Oysters attached to the shell and claw of a crab.
BOTANY.
Dr. Morris, ( York )
eee A specimen of Lobelia Urens.
ANTIQUITIES.
Matthew Carr, Esq. York
Mr. Danby, York... Mr. Etches, York ...
Rev. John Graham, York
Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P.
Mr.. Hands, Micklegate, York
Henry Robinson, Esq. York
An antique head, Roman, in jet, found at York,
An old carved knife.
An old ring, found in the garden of the Blue Coat School, York.
A Roman urn, from the Railway Station, York.
A mummy of an Ibis from Saccara.
An old carving in wood, date 1666.
Four Roman urns found at Clifton, near York, 1841.
A sepulchral urn, supposed to be Roman, found in St. Leonard’s Place.
Rey. Sir Robt. Affleck, Bart.
John Bayldon, Esq. York
Mr. Etches, York... wee
By command of Her Ma- jesty, the Queen, through Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Rev. Wm. Taylor, F.R.S. Rev. C. Wellbeloved
COINS.
An image of Mercury.
8 Roman coins, consisting of two of Com- modus, #. 1, and x. 2, and six others.
Coin of Hadrian, middle brass.
1 Roman and several modern coins.
A collection of coins, found at Cuerdale, near Preston, Lancashire, consisting of coins of Alfred, St. Edmund of E, Ang., Charles le Chauve, Eudes, and Cunnetti.
1 modern coin.
16 Roman coins, consisting of two Con-
sular, and various imperial coins. c
THE GARDEN.
John Ronald, Esq. Birmingham BotanicGarden Hull Botanic Garden Mr. Lowe, (Clapton )
200 plants and shrubs, chiefly American: 60 herbaceous plants.
50 herbaceous plants.
80 herbaceous plants.
MISCELLANEOUS DONATIONS.
Mr. John Bleckly, York... Godfrey De Burgh, Esq... William Gray, jun., Esq... R. R. Pearce, Esq.
Mrs. Christopher Wilson, Oxton Hall, Tadcaster
A fire pipe for striking light.
An inlaid crucifix, from Jerusalem.
A Chinese umbrella.
A carved image, from an old church in Spain.
A box containing a number of curious articles from Mexico.
THE
The Society of Arts ove
The Royal Astronomical Society
The Botanical Society of London
LIBRARY.
The Transactions of the Society, Part 1, Vol. 53. The Greenwich Observations for 1839.
Report of Society’s Proceedings for 1839 40
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
The British Association for the Advancement of Science
The Cambridge Philosophi- cal Society
L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. Swan- sea
The Editor ose The Geological Society
William Hobson, Esq. Charles Howard, Esq. Dr. Laycock,’
bee eee
The Leeds Literary and Philosophical Society
Thomas Meynell, jun. Esq.
R. I. Murchison, Esq. Pres. Geol. Soc.
The Rev. Thomas Myers, York
The Royal Society of Edin- burgh
General Tcheffkine aioe
Thos. Weaver, Esq. F.R.S., F.G.S. the author
The Zoological Society of London
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Report of Association i 1840.
Transactions. of that Society, Vol. 7, Part 2.
His work, ‘Contributions towards a History of Swansea.”
The Railroad Quarterly Journal.
Vol. 3, Part 2, of the Society’s Tran- sactions.
Travels in Asia Minor. (Paul Lucas.)
Clegg’s Book on Gas Lights.
His Treatise on the Nervous Diseases of Women.
Transactions, 1840 and 1841.
A beautiful Burmese Manuscript, on papyrus.
The Geology of Northern and Central Russia, in Europe, by R. I. Murchison, F.R.S., F.G.S., and E. De. Verneuil, Vice-President de la Société Géologique de France.
The Geology of Kemaon, India, by Dr. M’ Clelland.
Experiments on Telescopes, by Peter Barlow, Esq.
Transactions of the Society, Vol. 14, Part 2, and Vol. 15, Part 1.
Also, the Proceedings of that Society, 1840-41.
Annuaire du Journal des;Mines en Rus sie, 5 vols. Svo.
On the Composition of Chalk Rocks, by invisible inorganic bodies.
The Annual Report for 1841. Also an Account of the Proceedings of that Soctety, 1840.
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52 Specimens of British Birds, of Mr. Allis. 31 Specimens of British Birds, of Mr. Chapman. The Skins of the Spider Monkey, the Rough Lemur, the Australasian
Opossum and Rat, of Mr. Allis.
93 Species, 391 Specimens of Eggs of Birds, of Mr. Allis. Also Skeletons of the under-mentioned Animals :—
The Skate, Chameleon, Vampyre Bat, the Jerboa, Red—Crested Parrot, Francolin Partridge, Barn Owl, Sandwich Island Goose, Pomerin Gull, Vulture, Black Swan, Curassow, Nuthatch, Foreign Grosbeak.
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Clarke, George, York.
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Dyson, William, Howden.
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Foulis, Mark, Heslerton, Malton.
Fox, George Lane, Bramham Park, Tadcaster.
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Gastaldi, Charles.
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Graham, Hewley, Holgate, York. Graham, Rev. John, York.
Graves, Captain -, Clifton, York. Gray, William, jun. F.G.S. York. Grayston, James, York.
Greame, Yarburgh, Sewerby, Bridlington. Gregory, Thomas, York.
Hacket, Francis Beynon, York. Hague, Barnard, York. Hailstone, Samuel, F.L.S. Croft House, Bradford. Hamerton, James, Hellifield Peel, Skipton. 3 Hanson, Charles James, York. Harcourt, Rev. Charles Vernon, Rothbury, Northumberland. - Harcourt, Egerton Vernon, 40, Grosvenor Square, London. Harcourt, Rev. Leveson Vernon. Harcourt, Rev. William Vernon, F.R.S. Bolton Percy, Tad- caster. Hardman, William, York. * Harper, John, York. * Harris, Charles, Fulford Grange, York. Harrison, Rev. William Estcourt, York. Hartley, William, York. Harwood, John, York. * Hatfeild, William, F.G.S., Newton-Kyme, Tadcaster. Healey, Henry, Clifton, York ; and High Risby, Lincolnshire. * Hearon, William Hutchinson, Fulford, York. Hewson, Rev. William, York. Hey, Richard, York. Hey, Rev. William, Heworth, York. B3
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Hotham, William, York.
Howard, Charles, York.
Howard, Hon. and Very Rev. Henry, D.D., Deanery, Lich- field.
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Husband, William Dalla, York.
Hustler, John, Undercliffe, Bradford.
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Kenrick, Rev. John, York.
Keyworth, Henry, York.
Kirby, William, York.
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Langdale, Hon. Charles, Houghton, Market-Weighton. Lascelles, Hon. Edwin, Harewood House.
Lascelles, Hon. William Sebright, Harewood House.
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Laycock, Thomas, Fulford Road, York.
Laycock, Thomas, M.D., York.
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Littledale, Henry, Bolton Hall, Gisburn.
* Littledale, William Dawson, York.
* Lonsdale, Rev. Henry Gylby, Lichfield.
* Lowther, Sir John, Bart. Swillington, Ferrybridge. Lowther, John Henry, M.P. Swillington, Ferrybridge.
Maltby, Henry Donkin, York.
Markham, Rev. David Frederick, Great Horkesley Rectory, Colchester.
Markham, Rev. Henry Spencer, Clifton, Notts ; and Resi- dence, York.
Markham, Colonel William, Becca Hall, Aberford.
Mason, Thomas, Copt-Hewick, Ripon.
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Matterson, William, York.
Matterson, William, jun., York.
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Meek, James, Middlethorpe Lodge, York.
Meynell, George, York.
Meynell, Thomas, Kilvington Hall, Thirsk.
Meynell, Thomas, jun. F.L.S., Clarence Cottage, York.
Middleton, William, Poppleton Hall, York.
Milbank, Mark, Thorpe Perrow, Bedale.
Mills, John Robert, York.
Milner, Sir Wm. Mordaunt, Bart., Nun-Appleton, Tadcaster.
Milnes, Richard Monckton, M.P. Fryston, Ferrybridge.
Moore, Oswald Allen, York.
Morpeth, Viscount, Castle Howard.
Munby, Joseph, York.
Myers, Rev. Thomas, York.
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Newton, Henry, York.
* Nicholson, Richard, York.
Norrison, John, York.
North, William, York.
Noton, William, York.
* Parke, Right Hon. Mr. Baron, 56, Park Street, London.
Pearce, Robert Rouiere, York.
Pearson, John, York.
Pemberton, John, Sherburn House, Durham.
Phillips, John, F.R.S., F.G.S., St. Mary's Lodge, York.
* Pickard, Rev. William Leonard, York.
Prest, John, York.
* Preston, Cooper, Flashy, Skipton.
* Preston, Henry, Moreby Hall, York.
Preston, Rev. John Jervis D'Arcy, Hall Cross House, Don- caster.
Price, Thomas, Clementhorpe, York.
Priestley, William, Boston, Tadcaster.
Priestman, David, York.
Pritchett, James Pigott, York.
Ransome, Henry, York.
Rawdon, William Frederick, M.D. York. Rawson, Christopher, F.G.S. Halifax. Rayment, Rev. Benedict, York. Richardson, James, jun. York. Richardson, Henry, York.
Richardson, Rev. Thomas, York. Richardson, William, York.
Ridsdale, George, Old Hall, Wakefield. Robinson, Charles, York.
Robinson, Henry, Clifton, York.
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Roper, Edmund Horsfall, York.
Roper, John, Clifton, York.
Roundell, Richard Henry, Gledstone Hall, Skipton. Rowntree, Joseph, York.
* Russell, David, Clifton, York.
Russell, James, York.
* Russell, Henry, York.
Russell, Sir Robert Frankland, Bart. T'hirkleby Park, Tharsk. Rymer, Matthew, York.
St. David’s, Lord Bishop of, Aberguilli, Caermarthen. Scott, William Lister Fenton, Wood Hall, Wetherby. Seymour, George Hicks, York.
Seymour, John, York.
* Shann, George, M.D. Tadcaster.
Sharpe, Rev. Samuel, Wakefield.
Shephard, Mark Holman, York.
Simpson, George, York.
Simpson, Green, York.
Simpson, Sir John, York.
Simpson, Thomas, M.D. York.
Smales, Henry, York.
* Smith, Edwin, Acomb, York.
Smithson, Robert, York.
Spence, Joseph, Vork.
* Spencer, Rev. Isaac, Plantation House, York. Stansfield, William Rookes Crompton, M.P., Esholt, Leeds. * Stapylton, Martin, Myton Hall, Boroughbridge. Stead, Henry, The Grange, New Laiths, Leeds.
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Swire, Rev. John, Manfield, Darlington.
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Sykes, Rev. Christopher, F.G.S., Rooss, Hedon.
* Taylor, Edward, Kirkham Abbey, Whitwell.
Taylor, Michael, York.
Terry, Joseph, York.
Thiselton, Charles Arthur, York.
* Thompson, Harry Stephen, Kirby Hall, Boroughbridge. * Thompson, Henry, Burton Grange, York. Thompson, Richard John, Kirby Hall, Boroughbridge. Thurnam, John, Retreat, York.
Travis, Thomas Henry, York.
* Tuite, Joseph Thomas, Deighton Grove, York. Tuke, John Hack, York.
Tuke, Samuel, York.
Turner, John, York.
Tweedy, John, York.
'Tyrconnel, Earl of, F.R.S. F.G.S. Kiplin, Catterick.
Vansittart, Henry, Kirkleatham, Guisbrough. Vernon, Granville Harcourt, M.P. Grove, Retford, Notts. Volans, William, York.
Wake, Baldwin, M.D. York.
* Waller, Robert, Holgate, York.
Walker, John, York.
Walker, Thomas, York.
Watson, Robert, York.
Watkinson, Thomas, York.
* Wellbeloved, Rev. Charles, York.
* Wenlock, Lord, Escrick Park, York. Wharncliffe, Lord, Wortley, Sheffield. Wharton, John Thomas, Aberford.
* Whittell, Joshua Francis, Helmsley Lodge, York. Whytehead, Henry Yates, M.D. Easingwold. * Whytehead, William, jun. York. Wilkinson, Bartholomew Thomas, York.
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Wilkinson, Rev. William John, York.
Williams, Caleb, York.
Willoughby, Henry, Birdsal, Malton.
Wilson, Joseph Bilton, York.
Wilson, Edward, Clifton, York.
Wilson, Richard Fountayne, Melton, Doncaster.
Wilson, Thomas Wood, Fulford, York.
Winn, Thomas, York.
* Wood, Sir Francis Lindley, Bart. Hickleton, Doncaster. Wood, John, York.
Wood, Richard, York,
Woodall, George, Clifton, York.
Wormald, Richard, Scarborough.
Worsley, Sir William, Bart., Hovingham Hall, Whitwell.
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Abraham, J. H., F.L.S. Sheffield.
Aikin, Arthur, F.L.S., Secretary to the Society of Arts, London.
Audubon, J. J.
Bean, William, Scarborough.
Brewster, Sir David, K.H. L.L.D. F.R.S., Principal of the United Colleges of St. Salvador and §t. Leonard, in the University of St. Andrew’s.
Brisbane, Sir Thomas M‘Dougal, K.C.B. F.R.S., Mukerston, Kelso.
Buckland, Rev. William, D.D. F.R.S., Professor of Minera- logy and Geology in the University of Oxford.
Christie, Samuel Hunter, F.R.S., Woolwich.
Clift, William, F.R.S., Conservator of the Museum of the College of Surgeons, London.
Conybeare, Rev. W. D., F.R.S., Axminster, Devon.
Dalton, Rev. James, F.L.S., Croft, Darlington.
Dalton, John, D.C.L. F.R.S., Manchester.
Daubeny, Charles, M.D. F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Oxford.
De la Beche, Henry Thomas, F.R.S., Atheneum, London.
Denny, Henry, Keeper of the Museum of the Literary and Philosophical Society, Leeds.
Dikes, William Hey, F.L.S. Hull.
Dunn, John, Secretary of the Philosophical Society of Scar- borough.
Edmondstone, Lawrence, M.W.S. Balta Sound, Zetland.
Eglin, Joseph, Hamburgh.
Etty, William, R.A. 14, Buckingham St. Adelphi, London.
Fitton, William Henry, M.D. F.R.S., Norwood, Surrey.
Forbes, James David, F.R.S. L. & E. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh.
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Frost, Charles, F.S.A. Hull.
Gilbertson, William, F.G.S., Preston, Lancashire.
Graham, Robert, M.D. F.R.S.E. Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh.
Greenough, George Bellas, F.R.S. Regent's Park, London.
Greville, Robert Kaye, L.L.D. F.R.S.E. Edinburgh.
Halifax, Rev. Robert, Standish, Gloucestershire.
Henslow, Rev. John Stevens, F.L.S. Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge.
Henwood, W. J., F.G.S. Perran Wharf, Truro, Cornwall.
Heuland, Henry, F.G.S.
Hewitson, William Chapman, F.L.S. Bristol.
Hincks, Rev. William, F.L.S. Torrington Square, London.
Hooker, Sir William Jackson, K.H. L.L.D. F.R.S.
Hunter, Rev. Joseph, F.S.A.30, Torrington Square, London.
Hutton, William, F.G.S. Secretary to the Natural History Society, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Jameson, Robert, F.R.S., Regius Professor of Natural His- tory in the University of Edinburgh.
Johnston, J. F.W., F.R.S. L. & E., F.G.S., Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in the University of Durham.
Kenrick, Samuel, F.S.A. West-Bromwich, Staffordshire.
Knight, Sir Arnold James, M.D. Sheffield.
Latrobe, Rev. C. J., F.G.S.19, Bartlet?’s Buildings, London.
Macgregor, Sir James, M.D. F'.R.S. London.
Mantell, Gideon, L.L.D. F.R.S., Clapham, Surrey.
Marshall, John, Headingley, Leeds ; and Hallsteads, Penrith.
Meade, Thomas, F.G.S. Chatley Lodge, Bath.
Montgomery, James, Sheffield.
Moorsom, Richard, Cheltenham.
Murchison, Roderick Impey, F.R.S., President of the Geo- logical Society, London.
Parry, Charles Henry, M.D. F.R.S. Bath.
Parry, Capt. Sir William Edward, R.N., F.R.S.
Pearson, Rev. William, L.L.D. F.R.S. South Kilworth, Leicestershire.
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Phillips, Richard, F.R.S. Lecturer on Chemistry at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London.
Ripley, Richard, Secretary of the Literary and Philosophical Society, Whitby.
Robison, Sir John, K.H. Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Scoresby, Rev. William, D.D. F.R.S. Bradford, Yorkshire.
Sedgwick, Rev. Adam, F.R.S. Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the University of Cambridge.
Selby, Prideaux J., F.L.S. Twizel House, Alnwick.
Stutchbury, Samuel, F.L.S. Bristol.
Taylor, Rev. William, F.R.S. York.
Traill, Thomas Stuart, M.D. F.R.S. Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh.
Turner, Rev. William, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Wake, Charles Hamilton, Lieut. 34th Regiment E. I. Com- pany’s Service.
Warburton, Henry, M.P. F.R.S. London.
Waterton, Charles, Walton Hall, Wakefield.
West, William, Leeds.
Whevell, Rev. William, D.D. F.R.S. Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Williamson, John, Keeper of the Museum of the Scarborough Philosophical Society.
Witham, Henry Thornton Maire, F.G.S. Lartington Hall, Barnard Castle.
Worsley, Rev. Thomas, F.C.P.S. Master of Downing Col- lege, Cambridge.
Wrangham, Rev. Francis, F.R.S. St. John’s, Chester.
Young, Rev. George, D.D. Secretary to the Literary and Philosophical Society, Whitby.
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FOREIGN HONORARY MEMBERS.
Adolphe Brongniart, M.D. Paris.
John Griscom, Professor of Chemistry at New York.
Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin.
J. A. de Luc, Geneva.
William Meade, M.D. Philadelphia.
Louis Albert Necker de Saussure, Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Geneva.
F. Soret, Geneva.
Count Gaspar von Sternberg, Prague.
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OF THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM,
WHO ARE ENTITLED. TO PRIVILEGES.
DONORS OF FIFTY POUNDS AND UPWARDS.
The Lord Mayor of York, ex-officio.
Brook, Miss, Gateforth, Selby.
Chaloner, Robert, Esq. Coolattin, County Wicklow. Cholmley, George, Esq. Howsham, Whitwell. Clough, J. W., Esq. Newbald, Market Weighton. Clough, John, Esq. York.
Constable, Sir T. A.Clifford, Bart. Burton Constable, Hedon. Currer, Miss, Eshton Hall, Skipton.
De Grey, Thomas Philip, Earl, Newby Park, Ripon. Gascoigne, Richard Oliver, Esq. Parlington.
Gray, William, Esq. York.
Hotham, Beaumont, Lord.
Langley, Hon. Marmaduke, Wykeham Abbey, Malton. Lawrence, Mrs., Studley Park, Ripon.
Norfolk, Bernard Edward, Duke of, K.G.
Oldfield, William, Esq. York.
Petre, Hon. Edward Robert.
Stapylton, Stapylton, Esq. York.
Swann, Robert, Esq. Askham Hall, York.
Swann, John, Esq. Hutton Lodge, York.
Swann, George, Esq. York.
Walker, James, Esq. Sand-Hutton.
Winn, Charles, Esq. Nostel Priory, Wakefield.
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Yarburgh. N. E., Esq. Heslington Hall, York. Zetland, Earl of, Aske Hall, Richmond.
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Agar, Benjamin, Esq. Brockfield Hall, York.
Bland, Captain H. J., Hon, East India Company's Service. Bland, Thomas Davison, Esq. Kippaw Park.
Bower, Robert, Esq. Welham, Malton.
Cooke, Sir William Bryan, Bart. Wheatley, Doncaster. Copley, E. T. Esq. Halnaby, Richmond.
Croft, Harry, Esq. Stillington Hall, York.
Crompton, Sir Samuel, Bart., M.P. Wood-End, Thirsk. Dodsworth, Sir Edward, Bart., Newland Hall, Wakefield. Fairfax, Charles Gregory, Esq. Gilling Castle, York. Grimston, Charles, Esq. Kilnwick, Hornsey.
Harcourt, Col. Henry Vernon.
Harland, William Charles, Esq. Sutton Hall, York. Hildyard, J. B., Esq. Stokesley.
Hobson, Mrs. Leeds. |
Hornby, Robert Wm. Bilton, Esq. Heworth, York. Hutton, John, Esq. Sober Hill, Northallerton.
Jefferson, John Dunnington, Esq. T'horganby.
Knight, Henry Gally, Esq. M.P. Firbeck Hall, Retford. Lloyd, George, Esq. Stockton House, York.
Norcliffe, Norcliffe, Esq. Langton, Malton.
Stanhope, Spencer, Esq. Cannon Hall, Wakefield.
Vavasour, Hon. Sir Edward Marmaduke, Bart. Hazlewood Hall, Tadcaster. ; Wilson, Matthew, Esq. Eshton Hall, Skipton. York, Richard, Esq. Wighill Park, Tadcaster. Yorke, John, Esq. Bewerley, Pately Bridge.
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Anderson, Rev. Sir Charles, Bart. Lea, Lincolnshire. Atkinson, John Bownas, Esq. York.
Beckwith, Francis, Esq. London.
Bilton, Rev. William, Biddeford, Devon. Bower, Rev. G. H., Rossington, Doncaster. Bower, Rev. J. W., Barmston, Bridlington. Bulmer, John, Esq. York.
Burnell, Mr. Martin, Bishopthorpe.
Cracroft, Robert, Esq. Hackthorn, Lincoln. Drake, Rev. Dr. Langton, Northallerton. Etridge, Mr. Thomas, York.
Gray, Rev. Edmund, Kirby Moorside. Hailstone, Rev. J. Trumpington, Cambridge. Lawley, Sir Francis, Bart.
Leatham, J. A. Esq. Heath, Wakefield. Leatham, W. H. Esq. Heath, Wakefield. Lloyd, George, Esq. Moray Place, Edinburgh. Maude, Francis, Esq. Hatfield Hall, Wakefield, Monson, Hon. and Rev. John, Bedale.
Place, ‘Thomas Hutton, Esq. Skelton, York. Standish, Henry, Esq. Doncaster.
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Bayldon, Miss, York. Cattley, Miss, York.
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Fothergill, Elizabeth, York. Hawksworth, Mrs. York. Lloyd, Miss, York.
Lowe, Mrs. Yarm.
Pecchio, Madame, Brighton. Rawdon, Miss, York.
Smith, Miss Maria Woodroffe. Willoughby, Miss, York,
13 MAR 1886
( Thomas Wilson and Sons, High-Ousegate, York.)
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MONTHLY MEETINGS IN 1849—1848,
TUESDAYS. ee 1842; Mande: i oe a 1842. OcroBER . Se A PRT abeol. —— Novemper . a NTE I ae ba ah 3 —— Decemprr. . . —— JUNE. 2. 7 | 1848. January...
Aynvat Merrine, Feprvary 7, 1843.
RULES OF ADMISSION
TO THE MUSEUM AND GARDENS.)
I. Members of the Society (and Contributors of £15. and upwards to the ; Building Fund,) have the privilege of personal admission, and of PERSONALLY INTRODUCING Visitors to the Museum and Gardens, at all times when they are
open. i
II. Members (and Contributors of £50.) have the further privilege of giving 2 =) to Visitors Wrirren OrpeErs of admission, which must be signed with the —
name of the Member or Contributor, and bear the name of the Person to be admitted. Such written orders are Ae able at the Lodge every day (Sunday excepted) between the hours of Ten a.“u.
N. B. He is forbidden to accept money from Visitors.
“III. Lapis who are admitted by the Council as Annual Subscribers of £1, Eine (or who have contributed £10. or upwards to the Building Fund,) have the privilege of personal admission, and of PERSONALLY introducing LADIES as oc-
easional Visitors.
IV. Srraneers may obtain (at Mr. Chapman’s, Coney-street, and at Mrs. Wilson’s, Lendal, near the Museum Gate) Apmission Tickers, price One Shil- ling for each person ; which will entitle them to admittance at all times when — the Museum and Gardens are respectively open (Sundays excepted). The
tickets must be left at the Lodge.
V. The adult inmates of the Faumy of a. Member (or of a Contributor of £50.) have the privilege of personal admission whenever the Museum and
Gardens are open. ;
VI. Members, and others entitled to personal admission, may obtaina Key of the Private Entrances to the Garden, on application to Mr. Baines atthe Museum, and payment of Five Shillings for the current year ; such payment to be due annually in advance on the Ist of January, while the keyis retained. =
VII. CuinpRen are not to be admitted to the Museum except in the com-— pany of a Member or Lady Subseriber, nor to be left in the Garden, except —
under the care of their Parents, or other responsible person. ie VIII. The Garpens are open daily till dusk. On Sundays there is no ad-
mission between the hours of Ten and Twelve. The Museum is open every pats
day (except Sunday) till Dusk.
IX. The Sub-Curator, Mr. Baines, is fully empowered and required by the na Council to see these regulations enforced, and to prevent injury to the Garden, ~
Abbey Walls, and other antiquarian monuments.
and Four p. m. in Winter ; and Ten ~~ A, mM. and Eight p.m. in Summer; and must be left with the Lodge-keeper.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
YORKSHIRE
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
FOR
MDCCCXLII.
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING,
FEBRUARY 7, 1843.
RICHARD BURDEKIN, 16, HIGH-OUSEGATE.
1843,
TRUSTEES
OF THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT.
HIS GRACE, EDWARD, LORD ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
GEORGE, EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G.
CHARLES WILLIAM, EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S., F.S.A.
THOMAS PHILIP, EARL DE GREY.
HON. ann VERY REV. HENRY HOWARD, D.D., DEAN OF LICHFIELD.
SIR WILLIAM LAWSON, BART., F.S.A. »
FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ., F.S.A.
ROBERT DENISON, ESQ.
REV. WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S.
WILLIAM HATFEILD, ESQ., F.G.S.
RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
PATRONESSES
Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. Her Royat Hicuness Tote DUCHESS OF KENT.
PATRONS.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S.
EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F.R.S.
THE VISCOUNT MORPETH.
THE LORD STOURTON.
THE LORD WHARNCLIFFE.
THE LORD FEVERSHAM.
THE LORD WENLOCK.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1843.
PRESIDENT:
Ear Firzwituiam, F.RS.
VICE-PRESIDENTS :
StepHen Becxwitn, M.D.
Rev. SterHen Creyke.
W. D. T. Dueszsery.
GeorGe Goupie, M.D.
Sir J. V. B. Jounnstone, Bart, M.P. Rev. Wm. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S. Wiuwiiam Harreizp, F.G:S.
Rev. CHartes WELLBELOVED.
TREASURER: Rosert Davies, F.S.A.
COUNCIL:
Elected 1841 .... Rev. T. Eaerron, F.G.S. Rev. W. Hey, W. D. Litt Lepate, W. F. Rawopon, M.D. Elected 1842... . James ALLEN, Joun Puiuuirs, F.R.S., GS. Henry Rosinson, Wm. WuyreHEAD. Elected 1843 .... James BARBER, Captain BentHAm, Rev. Joun Grawam, Rev. Joun Kenrick.
SECRETARY:
Tuomas Meyweu., Jun, F.LS. A3
vi OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
CURATORS: NATURAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT.
GEOLOGY Pe -» J.Puinurps, F.R.S.,G:S. MINERALOGY .. «» W. Hatreizp, F.G.S. ZootoGy—VERTEBRATA .,* ANNULOSA -» T.Meynent,sun.F.L.S. Moutuusca AND ZOOPHYTA i Mf Comparative ANaTomy ., Tuomas ALLIs. Borany—GeneRau -» Wm. D. Hussanp. Britisu -» O. A. Moores. ANTIQUITIES .. -» Rev. C. Wevueetovep. Liprary and MSS, -. JosepH Munsy. LABORATORY .. -. T. H. Barker. OBSERVATORY .. -- W.L.Newman,F.R.Ast.S.
MeErEoroLoaicat Instrum. Joun Forp.
SUB-CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM:
Henry Baines.
* Those departments, for which no Curators are specially named, are considered to be under the direction of the Secretary and the Sub-Curator,
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
TO THE
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY ON THE 7th or FEBRUARY, 18 3,
In presenting their Annual Report, the Council cannot refrain from congratulating the Society on its increasing prosperity.
From the large amount of debt with which it has hitherto had to contend, it has barely been able to devote any portion of its funds to the attainment of those objects for which the Society was originally established, viz. : ‘‘ the promotion of science in the District for which it has been instituted.” The Council are, however, willing to hope that brighter days are in store; and judging from the experience of the two last years, confidently look forward to the time when they will be relieved from those embarrassments which have ‘hitherto beset them,
Former Reports have made the Society acquainted with the manner in which the debt has been incurred: it will only be neces- sary at the present time to draw the attention of the Meeting to the present state of the Society’s finances.
The Balance due to Messrs. Swann & Co., on the 31st of Deoem- ber, 1841, was £1321. lls, 8d, That balance has been reduced during the last twelve months to £1093. 10s. 11d., being a reduction of £228. Os. 9d. In addition to this the Society has been called upon to repay to the Executors of the late Mr. Wolstenholme the
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sum of £50., lent to it by that gentleman, so that the total debt of the Society has been reduced to the extent of £278. Os. 9d., or from £5171. 11s. 8d., the amount on the 31st of December, 1841> to £48938. 10s. 11d., the present debt.
Notwithstanding the large reduction in the liabilities of the Society, which the Council have been enabled to effect, amounting, during the last two years, to above £500, they have, owing to several fortuitous circumstances, had it in their power to expend a considerable sum in general repairs, as well as in the construction of New Cases for the Mineralogical Collection, which Collection will forthwith be removed into the Geological room.
A sum of £41. 1s. 9d. has been paid to the Treasurer, by the Managers of the County Ball, held in 1839, the proceeds of which were to be applied to the repairs of the Hospitium. The Council deeming it incumbent upon them to appropriate. this sum to the object for which it was intended, entered into contracts for the repairing and laying new joists to support the floor of the upper room, and likewise for glazing the upper windows of the building. When the work, however, came to be entered upon, several other repairs to the walls, &c., were found necessary, which compelled them rather to exceed the amount which was paid to them for the purpose.
As a proof of the increasing interest the public take in the Museum and Grounds, may be mentioned the fact, that nearly two thousand Strangers have during the past year paid for admissions to the Gardens, the proceeds from which, after deducting the attendant expenses, amount to the sum of £86. 1s. 6d. In 1841 the amount received was £63. 14s. 6d. and in the previous year 1840 only £50.
Gratuitous admission was granted to the Public on Whit Monday and Tuesday, when the Gardens and Museum were as usual crowded with visitors; and the Council have the satisfaction of stating that the utmost order and regularity prevailed, and that the Collections were in no wise injured, notwithstanding the crowded state of the rooms.
In accordance with the recommendation of the last Annual Meeting, the Council welcomed the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, by granting to its Members the free use of the Theatre, for the delivery of a lecture by the Curator of the Laboratory, upon Agricultural Chemistry,
COUNCIL FOR 1842, iS)
The Annual Horticultural Féte, under the judicious Management of a Committee of the Members of the Society, took place on the third of August, and afforded the highest gratification to the inha- bitants of the City, as well as to the numerous Country families, who were drawn hither by the Meeting of the Agricultural Society. Favoured by a propitious day, the attendance was more numerous than on any former occasion, and the receipts, after deducting the necessary expenses, amounted to about £115. This casual accession of income has enabled the Council to complete the laying out of the grounds near the Hospitium, and to form the drain there; a phen which had long been considered almost absolutely necessary.
In addition to this, the Gardens have been generally improved, and the stock of Plants greatly increased. An improvement has been effected in the Hothouse, by which that building has been made more available to the healthy growth of the valuable Collection of Orchideous Plants, now possessed by the ‘Society, and which has been considerably increased by donations during the past year. Encouraged by the general prospect of the Society’s finances, and looking to the continued success of future Horticultural exhibitions, the Council hope to be enabled to render the Gardens still more attractive.
The Geological Collection has been enriched by the donation of several hundred examples of Organic Remains, and the Council have more pleasure in announcing this fact, because these additions are exactly in those parts of the series of Palzozoic organization, which are at this moment of special Geological interest, and which were imperfectly represented in the Cabinets. The contributions to the Silurian series from North America, through the continued kind- ness of Mr. Jos. Clarke of Cincinnati, are extremely important, and contain many very interesting forms of Polypiaria, Crinoidea, Con- chifera, Cephalopoda, and Crustacea. Mr. Hatfeild, whose travels into remote parts of the world have always been the means of enriching the Museum, in which he has laboured when at home, has sent a choice selection of Organic Remains from the Silurian, Carboniferous, and Cretaceous groups of the United States, ex- hibiting on the whole a marked general analogy with the contem- poraneous forms imbedded in European Strata, and, at the same time, those lesser differences and variations of structure which are
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often observed between both the extinct and the living creations of America and Europe. Taken in connexion with prior contributions from the same regions, by Mr. Wortley, Mr. Stapylton, and the Rey. C. V. Harcourt, with the Norwegian Specimens gathered by Mr. Bilton and Mr. Hatfeild, the student will find in the Yorkshire Museum the means of investigating some of the most general questions at present under discussion, regarding the nature and distribution of the most ancient forms of animal. life.
For the same purpose, the large series of Fishes from the. Old Red Sandstone of Morayshire, presented by Mr. Stephenson, may be consulted with advantage. Placed only one step higher in the scale of stratification, only one Geological period later, this group of extinct fishes, —Pterichthys, Coccosteus, Cheirolepis, &c.,—has no representative in the older Silurian, nor yet.in the more recent Carboniferous rocks ; nor, except by distant and faint analogies with existing fishes, can their obscure and mysterious structures be reduced to modern laws of organization, explained by the knowledge acquired through the study of existing animals.
Mr. Weaver has conferred on the Society an additional obligation, by extending the series of specimens from the Tortworth district, so as to make it include the Liassic and Oolitic Strata, as far upward as the Portland Stone. The New Cases just completed will permit an improvement in the exhibition of the Minerals, which has been long desirable, and of expanding to double its present extent the collection of recent Invertebrata.
The Collection of Vertebrated Animals has Ihewise been_enriched by some valuable donations: amongst which may be enumerated collections of the Skins of Birds, from North America by Mr. Hatfeild, from Australia by Mr. James Backhouse, and from South America by the Rev. W. V. Harcourt.
The Collections of Comparative Osteology have been entirely re- arranged; the Ornithological Specimens have been placed in the Gallery of the Zoological Room, where they are better displayed and rendered more available to the student, than in the room they previously occupied. ‘The Mammalia and Reptiles have likewise been removed from their former locality, and placed in a more commodious room, where they are exhibited to greater advantage than heretofore. The Council hear with satisfaction ie it is the intention of the
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Curator of this department, to present the Society with sonfe valuable additions during the ensuing year.
Some additions have likewise been made to the Annulosa, by the presentation of several rare Foreign Insects, by the Rev. Francis Orpen Morris, and to the British Coleoptera, by the Rev. Wm. Hincks. The Collection of Foreign Insects has been entirely re- arranged, and named, as far as the Books to which the Curator has had access, have enabled him; and the Collections generally are in a good state of preservation.
But that which specially claims the notice of the Society, is the donation of a valuable Collection of British Crustacea, from S. Hailstone, Esq. This Collection was formed by his son, the late Samuel Hailstone, Jun., Esq., and, at the particular request of the donor, is to be preserved as a distinct Cabinet, under the denomi- nation of the ‘‘ Hailstone Collection,” as a just tribute the memory of the Collector. To the Collection of Mollusca and Zoophyta, several donations have also been received.
In the Botanical department, the diligent Curator of British Botany has been engaged in completing the arrangement of the British Herbarium. This is in a good state of preservation, and he confidently hopes to be enabled during the present year, to render this portion of the Museum available to the instruction of those who are practical admirers of our indigenous Flora.
In speaking of this: department, your Council are painfully re- minded that, within the last few weeks, the Botanists of this country have lost from amongst their number one of the most indefatigable and distinguished private Naturalists of the last half century ;—the friend of the late Sir James Edward Smith and of Professor Hooker, and one of the founders of the Society’s Botanical Collection. The large and valuable Herbarium, containing many Specimens from the Authors of the English and British Floras, is a sufficient monument to the merits, as a naturalist, of the late Rev. James Dalton, of Croft : and the Council have thé pleasure of stating, that through the liberality of his son; J. Dalton, Esq., the Collection of Lichens of his late lamented Father, is now presented to the Society’s Museum. The Society has likewise to regret the loss of W. Middleton, Esq., one of the earliest contributors to the Botanical Collection.
The additions to the Antiquarian Collections have consiste
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chiefly of coins; distinguished indeed by their number, but not in general by any great intrinsic value or rarity. Some however are undoubted remains of Eboracum. The most interesting are a very small portion of a vast hoard of Northumbrian Stycas, accidentally discovered in the month of April last, by some workmen employed in the erection of the De Grey Rooms, in St. Leonard’s Place. They had probably been enclosed in a wooden box and buried near the foot of the rampart of the Roman Wall; but the wood had perished, and the coins were at first scarcely to be distinguished from the surrounding earth. As usual in such cases they quickly became the prey of the workmen, and were dispersed. Several hundreds have happily been recovered and rendered legible by the per- severing zeal of Mr. John Browne. Of these an accurate descrip- tive Catalogue, will, it is hoped soon be completed, containing some very curious matter relating to this peculiar ancient coinage of the North, to which in. consequence of recent discoveries, especially that at Hexham, the attention of Numismatists is now earnestly directed. It is much to be wished that arrangements could be made by which this portion of the hoard might be retained in York, and deposited in the Museum, amongst the few relics of ‘* Eoferwic,’’ where probably many of these coins were minted. The original deposit is supposed to have contained more than 5000 Stycas, and appears to have been made later than that at Hexham, as the series of kings extends lower, probably to the middle of the ninth century. It is with sincere pleasure the Council have to notice the publication by the Curator of this department, of the result of his diligent researches into the history of Roman York,— a work which was undertaken at the special request of the Council, and which not only embodies, in lucid order, all the authentic in- formation now attainable, regarding the traces of Roman sway in « Eburacum,” but sheds over many previously unconnected facts, the light of extensive learning and philosophical reasoning.
The different learned Societies continue to supply the Library with their valuable Transactions ; and several other interesting works have been presented to it. The Council cannot however but regret the absence of many scientific Works, the want of which is severely felt by the Curators of the several departments, during their labours.
The Laboratory has been greatly improved under the manage-
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ment of its Curator, who, with the permission cf the Council, has continued his Lectures therein to the York School of Medicine, He has likewise delivered a series of highly interesting Lectures on Chemistry, in the Theatre of the Museum, to which the Members of the Society were almost gratuitously admitted ;* and the Council feel assured that had they been able to give sufficient publicity to this fact, previous to the commencement of the course, the interesting nature of the subject, and Mr. Barker’s well known talents as a lecturer, would have ensured a more numerous audience. Mr. Addams was likewise engaged by the Council, and delivered three most interesting lectures on the Electric Telegraph of Professor Wheat- stone and on the Solidification of Carbonic-Acid Gas.
The Observatory has undergone several repairs during the past year; the usual Observations have been persevered in with diligence, and several interesting phenomena noted. A new Barometer and Thermometer have been placed therein by the liberality of the Curator, who contemplates the delivery of a few Lectures in the course of the present year, the proceeds to be applied in re aed the instrumental power of the Observatory,
Following out the suggestions of the Council, as contained in the last Report, the Curator of Meteorological Instruments has made thirty-six Horary Observations, during the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes, and the Summer and Winter Solstices; and M. Quetelet, of Brussels, has confessed the importance of them, in a letter ad- dressed to the Council, in acknowledgement of the receipt of those for the Vernal Equinox. From these observations. the following results have been deduced, viz. :
Vernal Equinox, Mean of 24 Obs, 36.979 occurring bet. 8 and 9 a.m. and 7& 8 p.m. Summer Solstice ...... 24.... 61.987 ........ 7 and 8 a.m. and 6 and7 P.M. Autumnal Equinox .....24.... 48.900 .:........ at 10 a.m. and at 7 P.M. ’ Winter Solstice........ 24 .... 49.933 between 10 and 11 a.m. and not again.
The Curator has likewise continued his register of the Meteorological Phenomena at York, of which the subjoined Table gives the annual results :—
* 2s. Gd. only being charged by the Council for a ticket of admission to the twelve lectures, to defray the cost of lighting, attendance, &c.
14 - -REPORT OF THE
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER—YORK, 1842.
Barometer. Rain. Thermometer. ey & uo |_|. lz sa\e2 Blase /ZzIS 8 E18 & = HSPs gd} 8] 2] 8 feels sig area! 8 Zales S$) m@| EUS IF RF 8lF spe] = esl = a deed ed oe ey ag 4H |4"lm s Jan, |30.04/30.57/28.76}| 2.20] 34.5] 27 | 30.7; 40 | 6 || 29 | 7 Feb. |29.94)30.55/29.16|| .64)| 42.7) 30-9] 36.8] 53 | 25 || 20| 8 March|29.85]30.34|29.29!| 2.15|| 48.9135 | 41.9] 55 | 30 |) 12 | 16 April |30.18/30.46|29.24]| .39|| 55.7) 33 | 44.5) 66 | 23 || 17 | 2 May |29.94/30,56)29.19]| 2.39)| 61.4) 42 | 51.7) 69 | 35 || 0 | 16 June [30.07|30.41/29.50)| 1.91)| 68.6] 48.9) 58.8] 76 | 40 || O} 8 July, |29.98)30.43}29.60)| 3.32) 66 | 49 | 57.5).74 | 40 || 0] 9 Aug. |30.09/30.68/29.68}| 1.86/71 | 53.3}62 | 82] 41 || 0 | 10 Sepf. |29.86/30.34)/29.32)| 2.73}| 62.6] 47 | 54.8} 69 | 38 || 0} 15 » »| Oct. -92|30.47/28.95)]| .93}} 50.2} 36.5] 43.3) 62 | 27 || 10 | 6 Nov. |29.65}30.50/28.80|| 2.83] 44.9} 35.2} 40 | 56 | 30 || 10 | 17 Dee, |30.00|30.47|/29.30)}| .42/| 48.6) 38.1) 43.4) 58 | 27 || 9 | 11 ahs ag pyar ge, BaeEA! “129.96 21.77 47.1 107 {125 Mean height Total Rain. for the Year. pe
At the last Annual Meeting, the Council were authorized to present an invitation to the British Association for the advancement of Science, to hold their Meeting for 1843, in this City, provided they saw reason to believe sufficient money could be raised for defraying the attendant expenses. In compliance with this resolution, the Council lost no time in making application to the Members of this Society and to the Friends of Science connected with the County, for their support, and finding that ample funds might be depended upon, they appointed a deputation of their body to attend, and present the invitation to the Meeting at Manchester. The invitation was presented, but owing to urgent solicitations on the part of the inhabitants of Cork, the Association determined that its next Annual Meeting should be held in that City, The Council, however, have strong reason to hope, that should the present Meeting authorize them to renew their invitation, for the Association to meet in York in 1844, that body will be induced to accept it; and we shall once more have the high honor and gratification of welcoming within our walls, a Society which had its origin amongst us, and which may now be justly considered as the first and most influential body of Natura- lists and Philosophers the world can boast.
TREASURER OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
IN ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1842,
Dr. 1842. a £. s. d. Annual Subscriptions and Arrears 580 0 0 Admission of New Members ...... 8 0 0 Donation from Miss Lloyd ........ 200 0 Ladies’ Subscriptions, and Keys of
the Garden. Adieecivedasccoss. 5010.0 Tickets at ls. each......... ccovtse OO L-6 Bi ips Wt OR ae ace 10% O68 DOS OFT E idin do nteaehievicees 02:15, 0.0 Proceeds of the County Ball, 1839,
for the repairs of the Hospitium 41 1 9
Horticultural Exhibition.......... 117 5 11
Mr. Addams's Lectures. .......... 13 9 0 Mr. Baker's Lectures ......... Hoigikte( eR ae Ninety copies of “ Guide to the OED FLL hrc cies) HIF Gas for Evening Meetings ........ 110 0 Dee. 31st Permanent Debt, viz. £. s. d. Yorkshire Insurance Company .......... 2500 0 0 William Gray, Esq. .. 1000 0 0 Six* Members at 50/. Se eS a OC = 3800 0 0
Balance overdrawn Messrs. Swann & Go. 31 Dec., 1842.......ccceceeeess 1093 10 11
* £50. having been paid to the Executors of the late Mr. Wol- © . stenholme.
£6016 1 1
Audited 7th Feb., 1843. T. ALLIS.
1842, PCy Rae Permanent Debt, viz. £. 8. d Yorkshire Insurance Company .......... 2500 0 0 Wm. Gray, Esq. -- 1000 ® 0. + Seven Members at 501. 35@.0 @ a , » 3850 0 0 Balance overdrawn a Messrs. Swann & Co. es Dec. 34, 1841. .......000+-s.000. 182121 8 Crown Rents.......... 1°65 Corporation Rents .... 612 6 Insurance ............ 5 0.0 Gate Keeper ........0«: 11.0.0 Collectors sec.cecceieee 5 OOO MM Interest .......ccecce 186 J QO Sub-Curator, on account 205 0 0 419 13 11 Sundry Bills, viz. New Cases............ 65 0 0 Tables for Tent ....., 45 0 0 Maclean..... tcccucess 20 OO Mr. Addams .......... 1515 0 Wilson & Son ........ 2310 6 Cluderay.............. 88 0 0 Fi BOC LT. ES PISO R. Hartley........00-. 12°15 6 Wr dicccseiees 20 10: © York Gas Company.... 13 7 6 Tyrer -.ccccsccccsees 1014 6 ; AkeTOVA ss cccescccesee 11 13’ 6 DVO.” civvcssasveee® 1a OR Brown, , oderp.esicdione 6: ADE 2O Sundry small Bills .... 6216 0 42415 6 £6016 1 1
ANALYS
IS OF DISBURSEMENTS
DURING THE YEAR 1842.
OrpinARY EXPENSES.
Rent, Rates, &c. : Yr ee be ' Rent to the Crown os ee ° Le0'0 Rent to the Corporation . . 612 62 Poor Rates, Highway Rates, and Land Taxi, ever 29-d 27h Insuranee and Water Rent oe gers ee UC gt - 48 5 Salaries and Wages : Sub-Curator os F ° <s ROO TOO Servant ee “ 20 0 0 Lodgekeeper ee ee ee T1050 Labourer xe . oe LOR Bio Collector oe ° ee : 5° DE Occasional Labourers Pe es oe ae ee a — 189 Interest on Debt: Interest on Mortgage Debt ee oe 100 0 Interest on £100 F vo.) a0 ee Interest to Bankers for being? overdtawn Be: GE OG - —— 186 1 0 Museum, Gardens, Grounds, &c : Painting and General Repairs ee «s 97-14 10% Purchase and Preparation of Specimens oo * TEEO 6 Observatory ee ee ee ee 8 5 122 9 10% Library : Books and Binding oa, oe a 710 6 Incidentals : Printing, Advertising, and Stationery -- 3412 0 Coals, Gas Light, and Coke AP o. OO 1G 6 Postages, Carriage, and Sundries... aie) eh 19-12 P 7 637.3 4 ExtTraorpINary ExpEnsss. Mr. Addams’s Lectures... oe oo 1711 4, New Cases in the Geological Room os a oe: 80 Tables for the Tent ve sion as 40 0 '0 Cupboards in the Council Room ee 4 3 10 _ Cases for the Antiquarian Collection mirirmaye 6 aan 6° | Hospitium Repairs eb oe «- 621411 207 6 1
RESOLUTIONS
PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEB. 7, 1843,
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Resolved, that Joseph Clarke, Esq., of Cincinnati, and Thomas Weaver, Esq., F.G.S., of London, be elected Honorary Members of the Society.
1. That the Report of the Council be adopted and printed for the use of the Members.
2. That the Council be authorized to present an invitation to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at its next Meeting, to appoint its meeting for 1844 to be held in York.
3. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Vice-Presidents and Members of the Council retiring from office.
4. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Treasurer and Secretary for their valuable services.
5. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Curators’ for their diligent and useful services in the several departments of the Museum.
6. That the Council be empowered, on certain days, to be selected by them, during the present year, to permit free admission to the Museum and Gardens to all persons; the mode of admission to be
regulated by the Council.
7. That the Regulations adopted at the last seven Annual Meet- ings, for the admission of Strangers by the purchase of Tickets, be continued for the present year.
8. That the Resolution of the last Annual Meeting, empowering the Council to authorize the holding one or more Horticultural Meetings in the Society’s Gardens, be continued in force during the present year.
9. That the best Thanks of the Society be gixen to the Chairman and Committee of Management of the Horticultural Féte held in August last; and that they be respectfully requested to continue their valuable services for the year 1844.
SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS
OF THE
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
ELECTED IN 1842—83.
1842. F Thomas Henry Travis, York. Arthur Symonds, York. James Hack Tuke, York. Thomas Winn, York. Charles Wilkinson, York. Hon. William Stourton, Holdgate Lodge, York. Captain R. M. Darnell, Clifton Grove, York. Francis Whaley Harper, York. Abraham Braithwaite, York, J. Walker, Mountville, York.
1843.
Rev. Thomas Billington, York.
Abraham Bower, Middlethorp Hall, York. Edward Harper, York.
Joseph King, York.
Joshua Oldfield, York.
Rev. Charles Payton, York.
Henry Sotheran, York.
Robert Sunter, York.
Thomas K. L. Walker, York.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS
TO THE
GENERAL MEETINGS.
Aprit 5th, 1842.—Horary Observations of the state of the Barometer, Thermometer, direction of the Wind, and state of the Weather on the 21st and 22nd of March, 1842; with a diagram of the Barometrical and Thermometrical Curves during the period of the Observations. Also, a General Meteorological Report for York, for the year 1841; and some general remarks on the mode of recording Meteorological Observations, by Joun Forp.
Ocroser 4th.—A Communication from Professor PHiLuips, con+ taining an account, of 24 Meteors or Shooting Stars observed by him at Malvern, on the 9th of August last.
Jan. 3rd, 1843.—Meteorological Observations made at Huggate, in 1841, by the Rev. T. Ranx1n.
‘DONATIONS
To
THE SOCIETY’S MUSEUM.
GEOLOGY.
Jos. Clark, Esq., (Cincinnati)
Thomas Weaver, Esq., F.G.S.
Samuel Hailstone, Esq., F.L.S.
Henry Philip Cholmely, Esq.
William Hatfeild, Esq., F.G.S.
“Rev. Francis Orpen Morris ..
Roland Stephenson, Esq. ....
T. Meynell, Jun., Esq., F.L.S. D. Priestman, Esq. ........
Mr. Henry Baines ...... eens J.Phillips, Esq., F.R.S., G.S.
Crinoidea, corals, shells, and crustacea, from the Silurian Strata of Cincinnati, including isotelus gigas, actinocrinus simplex, tri- arthrus bechei, orthis callactis, acre alternata, &c.
Second large series of specimens from the Tort- worth district; including spécimens of rocks and fossils from the lias and oolitic series to the Portland rock.
Seales of megalichthys in cannel coal from Wigan.
Fossil wood (coniferous) from the sandstone associated with oolite, at Bransby.
Crustacea, shells, corals, &c., from the Silurian carboniferous and more recent strata of the United States, including euripterus, homalo- notus, &c.
Series of specimens from the lias and oolites of the south of England, including pentacrinites, pleurotomariz, astarte, modiola, terebratula, ammonites, &c., from Dundry, and fishes from Lyme Regis (73 specimens).
Series of (62) specimens of fossil fishes from the old red-sandstone of Morayshire, includ- ing coccostei, cheirolepides, pterichthys, &c.
Spatangus-hemisphericus from Sussex.
Fine specimen of fossil wood from the lias.
Fossils from the tertiary bed of Bridlington.
Specimens of wood and marl from the bog near which some of the sulphuretted ‘springs of Harrogate rise.
MINERALOGY.
' James Backhouse, Esq....... T. Meynell, Jun., Esq. F.L.S.
Thomas Backhouse, Esq. ....
Various minerals from Australia.
Elastic bitumen from Derbyshire; iron pyrites from Sussex.
Carbonate of iron.
ZOOLOGY.
VERTEBRATA.
James Backhouse, Esq.......
Rey. W. V. Harcourt, F.R.S... Lieut. C. Rudston Read, R.N. Mr. Thomas Allis ...6...e0 Mr. William Holder (Hull) .. “ Rev. F.’ Orpen Morris ...... * Thomas Sutton, Esq........+ ’R. Denison, Esq. ....+.0e0 John Henderson, Esq. ......
Silburn Barber, Esq. .....+.-- Samuel Hailstone, Esq.......
William Hatfeild, Esq., F.G.S.
‘Rev. F. Orpen Morris ...... Rey. James Wake (Hedon) ..
Rev. William Hey .......6.. ' Samuel Hailstone, Esq., F.L.S.
Wombat and 4 other quadrupeds, 4 reptiles, 23 birds, 1 flying fish, part of a saw-fish, from Australia.
Skins of birds, from South America.
Skins of birds, from Australia, China, &c.
The guan, from Australia.
Skull of the polar bear.
190 eggs of British birds
Solitary snipe, shot at Fulford, 1842.
Dotterell.
Large specimen of the pike (esox lucius), from Castle Howard.
Hooded crow.
Specimens of several British fishes, jaws of sharks, and eggs of sharks and skates.
82 skins of birds from North America.
ANNULOSA,
80 Foreign insects.
2 specimens of locust (L. migratoria), taken in Holderness, in 1842.
18 species of British Coleoptera.
Fine and extensive collection of British crus- tacea, formed by the late S. Hailstone, Jun., Esq. (The Hailstone Collection.)
MOLLUSCA AND ZOOPHYTA.
James Backhouse, Esq....++. Mrs, Davies
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5 starfish and Crustacea, from Australia. Echinus and ophiura.
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T. Meynell, Jun. Esq., F.L.S. | Echinus miliaris and chiton, from Seaton.
Lieut. C. Rudston Read, R.N. Spondylus varius (very rare), and cyprea argus (rare), from China.
Rev. F. Orpen Morris ...... A lizard in spirits.
R. A. Tudor, Esq. (Liverpool) 80 species of zoophytes.
Green Simpson, Esq......... Asterias.
BOTANY.
Sarah & Isaac Bass (Brighton) A volume, containing a collection of alge, from the coast of Sussex. Oswald Allen Moore, Esq..... Barbara stricta (Clifton Beck), rumex aqua- ticus (Clifton Ings), potamogeton planta. gineus (Ditch near Heslington.),
ANTIQUITIES.
Rev. Charles Wellbeloved. .. A celt, from Ireland.
John Bayldon, Esq. ......+. Impression of an ancient seal of the Merchants’ Company of York, found in the ruins of Shap Abbey.
G. Brown, Esq.,....++++++++ 2 cannon balls, from a bastion in Walmgate Bar. Walls.
Mr. Cooper....++..+s++++-- A horse-shoe and pair of shears, dug up from a drain in Coppergate.
COINS.
Rev. F. Orpen Morris ?...... 250 various coins.
Rev. Charles Wellbeloved.... 3 Roman and 1 Saxon coin, 70 stycas recently found in St. Leonard’s Place, a forty-shilling piece of William iii, and | shilling of Eliza- beth, medal found in the Asylum Garden.
J. Prest, Esq. ..++2e+++++» 2 Roman coins.
G. Hobson, Esq. ..++++++++ A large number of coins, chiefly Roman. Se-
vera] provincial pence and half-pence.
Mr. John Bleckley.......... Styca of Ethelred.
Robert Davies, Esq. ........ Denarius of Commodus, medal in bronze of Mr. Carrington, chairman of the Aylesbury nail company.
GARDEN.
Mr. Lowe (Clapham).....+.- Mr. Barratt, (St. John’s, Wake-
Jield) Miss Tweedy ......++-+ eee Mr. John Bleckley .......+++ Wm. Oldfield, Esq. ........ J. F. Browne, Esq...++.+.+--
78 orchideous, stove, and hardy plants.
30 plants,
Several plants. Standard rose trees. 4 loads of manure. 5 loads of manure.
.
MISCELLANEOUS DONATIONS.
James Backhouse, Esq. ..4...
Rev. Wm. Taylor ..5.-.....
Skull of a native of Australia, various barks and gums from Australia.
Model of the new roof of the choir of York Minster, scale 3 inch to a foot.
Wm. Gray. Jun., Esq. ...... § Several articles of chemical and pneumatic ap-
Mrs. Wilson (Ozton Hall) -..
Rev. F. O. Morris ..... tien
paratus. Ornamented wooden bow! and two eups, 2°basins and teapot of alabaster, belt, pouch, and - beads; of the North American Indians.
Various curiosities from North America. G. Hobson, Esq.........+-.. Sulphur casts. - > BG Le LIBRARY. The Society of Arts ........ The Transactions of the Society, vol. 53, part 2.
The Royal Astronomical Society The British Association for the Advancement of Science . The Cambridge Philosophical
SOY Fk HP Sa ee e's Geological Society .......... Manchester Philosophical So-
ciety Natural History Society of Northumberland ........
Royal Society of Edinburgh ..
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society eres reer eereneeee
The Greenwich Observations for 1840.
Report of the Association for 1841.
Transactions of the Society, vol 6, part | and 2. vol. 7, part 1, 2,3.
Proceedings of the Society.
Memoirs of the Society, vol. 6, N.S.
Annual Reports for 1834, 1835, 1836, 1838, 1840,1841. Catalogue of the Generic Types of the Class Aves, with list of Desiderata.
Transactions of the Society, vol. 15, part 2. Proceedings of the Society.
Ninth Annual Report.
24
Scarbro’ Philosophical Society Sheffield Literary and Philoso- phicai Society Shropshire Natural History So- ciety Zoological Society of London
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R. I. Murchison, Esq., Pres. Geol. Soc. (the Author)....
R. Kilvington, Esq. (Phila-
Reipay Ss a0 SS Wm. Hatfeild, Esq., F.G.S. .. Mrs. Maude
S. Hailstone, Esq. .....+....
Dr. Mantell, F.G.S.(the Author)
Rey, D. Williams (the Author) J. Phillips, Esq., F.R.S., &e. (thie Author) ....seccceee
J. Hogg, Esq. (the Author) .. W. D. Fitton, Esq., M.D. (the
Author) .seccoeess M. Jobert (joint Author) ....
LIBRARY.
Twelfth Annual Report. Nineteenth Annual Report.
Annual Report.
Report and Proceedings of the Society for 1842.
Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society. Address delivered at the first Meeting of the Dudley and Mid- land Geological Society.
Transactions of the Pensylvania Horticultural Society, with its Constitution and Bye-laws.
2 Reports to the State Assembly of New York.
Additional Notes to Maude’s Visit to the Falls of Niagara in 1800, with Portraits of the Author, and View of Moor House, his residence.
Malacostraca Podopthalma of Leach, Paper on some species of Crustacea, by S. Hailstone, Jun., Esq., with Notes, by Westwood, From the Mag. Nut. Hist. $e
Memoir on Fossil Reptiles of the, South of England. ae
Memoir on the Devonsbire Strata.
On the Paleozoic Fossils of Devonshire and Cornwall. On the occurrence af Shells and Corals, &c., in conglomerate at Malvern.
Remarks on the Horny Sponges, &e., from the Mag. Nat. Hist. .
Review of the Silurian System. Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossils du Puy de Déme, par Croizet et Jobert.
THE FOLLOWING WORKS AND ARTICLES
HAVE BEEN
PURCHASED BY THE SOCIETY.
Eburacum,” by the Rev. C, Wellbeloved.
“ Monographia Anoplurorum Britanniz, by H. Denny, Esq.
Shells, Dresses, and Warlike Instruments from the South Sea Islands. 20 Boxes of Foreign Lepidoptera.
2.Swords found in digging the foundations of York Castle.
ancient Weights and Scales.
Curious set of
Printed by R. Burdekin, High Ousegate, York.
ANeUAL REPORT
OF THE COUNCIL
OF THE
YORKSHIRE
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
FOR
MDCCCXLIII.
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
FEBRUARY 6, 1844.
YORK:
RICHARD BURDEKIN, 16, HIGH-OUSEGATE.
1844.
TRUSTEES
OF THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT.
HIS GRACE, EDWARD, LORD ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
GEORGE, EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G.
CHARLES WILLIAM, EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S., F.S.A.
THOMAS PHILIP, EARL DE GREY.
HON. anv VERY REV. HENRY HOWARD, D.D., DEAN OF LICHFIELD.
SIR WILLIAM LAWSON, BART., F.S.A.
FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ., F.S.A.
ROBERT DENISON, ESQ.
REV. WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S.
WILLIAM HATFEILD, ESQ., F.G.S.
RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
PATRONESSES
OF
The Yorkshire Bhtlosophical Society,
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. Her Royvat Hicguness Tue DUCHESS OF KENT.
PATRONS.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S.
EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F.R.S.
THE VISCOUNT MORPETH.
THE LORD STOURTON.
THE LORD WHARNCLIFFE.
THE LORD FEVERSHAM.
THE LORD WENLOCK.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1844.
PRESIDENT:
Earv Firzwituiam, F.R.S.
VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. StepHen Creyxe, Rev. Tuomas Ecerron, F.G.S. Cuarxtes Heneace Exstey. Rev. Wu. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S. Wixuiam Hatreivp, F.G.S. Sir J. V. B. Jounstone, Barr, M.P. Joun Henry Lowruer, M.P. Rev. CHartes WELLBELOVED.
TREASURER: Rozsert Davies, F.S.A.
COUNCIL: Elected 1841....Rev. Wituiam Hey. Elected 1842....James ALLEN, Joun Puixuirs, F.R.S.,F.GS. Henry Rostnson, | Witiiam Wuyteneap. Elected 1843....James Barser, Captain BentHam, Rey. Joun Kenrick. Elected 1844....Rev. W. B. Cooxe, Grorce Gotpir, M.D. Witiiam Gray, Jun. Tuomas Henry Travis.
SECRETARY:
Tuomas Meynetu, Jun, F.L.S. A2
vi OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
CURATORS.
NATURAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT:
GEOLOGY eA .. J. Poruyips,F.R.S.,F.GS. MINERALOGY .. .. W. Harreixp, F.G.S. ZooLoGyY—VERTEBRATA .. Rev. Witiiam Hey. ANNULOSA .. T. Meynett, Jun. F.L.S. Mouuusca AND } i ZOOPHYTA ComparRATivE ANATomy’ .. THomas ALLIs. Botany 8 .-. Oswatp ALLEN Moore. ANTIQUITIES .. .. Rev. C. WELLBELOVED. Liprary and MSS. si LABORATORY .. .. T. H. Barker. OBSERVATORY .. .. W.L. Newman, F.R.Ast.S.
METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUM. JOHN Forp.
SUB-CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM:
Henry Baines.
* Those departments for which no Curators are specially named, are considered to be under the direction of the Secretary and the Curator.
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
TO THE
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, ON THE 6th OF FEBRUARY, 1844.
Tue Council, acting under the direction of the last Annual Meeting, repeated the invitation from the Yorkshire Philosophical Society to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, when assembled at Cork, to hold its next Meeting in this City; and they have great pleasure in announcing that the invitation was accepted, and that the Society will, in September next, again have the honour of witnessing, within the City of York, the assembling of that learned body. This event, so earnestly desired by the Council, must necessarily have a most beneficial influence on this Society, by stimulating its members to renewed exertion, and thus raising it to a still more elevated position in the scale of science and utility.
To render the Museum as attractive as possible, and interesting to the numerous scientific visitors who may be expected to attend the meeting, the Council have considered it highly important to complete, as far as possible, the arrangement of the different Collections previous to the month of September. For this purpose, several alterations in the interior of the Museum have become necessary, more particularly the re-opening the communication between the Library and the late Mineralogical Room, and the completing the side cases in that Room, for the reception of the splendid Collection of Comparative Osteology, which is at present so imperfectly exhibited. It has also been determined to place drawers underneath the new centre cases in the Geological Room, for the arrangement of the Foreign and British Rock Specimens, which will thus be easily referred to; and to fit up the spare Room
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in the upper part of the building, for displaying to more advantage the numerous Roman Antiquities connected with the ancient history of the City of York,
These alterations, however, could not be undertaken without incurring considerable expense, but the Council did not hesitate to enter upon them. The most rigid economy having been exercised for the last few years, a great reduction has taken place in the amount of the Society’s debt, and there is now a considerable surplus in the ordinary annual receipts over the expenditure, which may be applied to the purpose of these improvements.
It will likewise be advisable for the Council to purchase a certain number of Specimens, in order to complete some of the most in- teresting groups, and supply several vacancies, which it is not probable the Society can otherwise fill up.
{t could not be expected that, with the limited funds at its disposal, the Society could undertake to defray the heavy expenses which will be incurred in receiving the British Association. The Council, therefore, prepared a circular letter, which they addressed to the principal gentlemen in the county, soliciting contributions for that purpose; and they are happy to state that the amount already received renders it certain that no loss will be sustained by the Society. The appeal which the Council has made to the County of York, has indeed been every where most favourably received, and they cannot allow this opportunity to pass without returning their thanks to their numerous friends, who have so generously come forward to their support, at a time when so many calls of a more pressing nature are being made upon them.
An Act was passed during the last Session of Parliament, to exempt Scientific Societies from the payment of all local rates. This Act came into operation in October last, and the Council lost no time in taking the necessary steps to enable the Society to avail itself of this exemption. The Society will therefore in future be relieved from the payment of a tax which has pressed very heavily upon it, amounting to a sum little short of £30. per annum, or nearly 5 per cent. upon its ordinary annual income.
In presenting a statement of the accounts of the Society for the past year, the Council have little to remark. The receipts are almost entirely confined to the usual sources of income, and the
COUNCIL FoR 1843. i)
ordinary expenditure has been somewhat increased by certain repairs which it has been found necessary to effect. Seventy-five pounds have been expended in extra works; and a donation of £10. has been made towards presenting a testimonial to Mr. A. Ryland, of Bir- mingham, for his services in obtaining the Act of Parliament before mentioned. Notwithstanding this extra expense, the balance against the Society at its bankers has been further reduced to a small extent, and now amounts to the sum of £1064. 16s. 2d.
Whilst on the subject of finance, the Council cannot refrain from adverting to the splendid bequest which has been made to the Society by their late esteemed Vice-President, Dr. Beckwith. This Princely Legacy, which in conjunction with his other liberal bequests will render the name of Dr. Beckwith revered as the greatest benefactor to the charities and public institutions of the City of York, will go far towards relieving the Society from those difficulties under which it has laboured ever since its first formation ; although in accordance with a stipulation in the will, the legacy is not to be applied to the payment of any part of the heavy debt of the Society. At the special request of Dr. Beckwith, the income arising from this legacy is, in the first place, to be expended in building a house upon the Society’s property, as a residence for the Sub-Curator. This outlay is very desirable, as the rooms at present occupied by him are from their situation extremely damp and unhealthy ; and the Council have only been deterred from undertaking it hitherto, by the expense which a suitable building would entail. It will be hereafter the duty of the Council, in the appropriation of this increase of income, to render the Museum and Gardens as interesting as possible to the members and the public.
The money received for tickets of admission to the Gardens and Museum during the past twelve months, has not been quite equal to the amount of the previous year; but the small deficiency is less than might have been expected, considering the unprecedented depression under which the trade of the country has of late laboured.
On Whit-Monday and Tuesday, the Gardens and Museum were as usual, thrown open to the Public, and visited by a large concourse of persons. The Officers and Privates of the Yorkshire Hussars were likewise permitted to have free access to the Museum, during the period of their service in York.
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Much inconvenience has at times been experienced by the Council from not having the power to admit persons during their temporary residence in the City, to the Garden and Museum, on the payment of a reasonable sum for the privilege thus granted. The Council have therefore agreed to submit a resolution to the meeting, to authorize them to admit such residents as temporary subscribers.
The Horticultural Féte was held on the 26th of August, on which occasion the display of Fruit and Flowers was superior to that of any former exhibition.
The Council have deemed it expedient to add to the Gardens the ground lying immediately below the Observatory ; and they hope that thus a suitable situation may be found fora scientific arrangement of Plants, which has long been wanted.
In the Geological department, the Collections have been increased by a few purchases, and some interesting donations ; but the attention of the Council has been called by Professor Phillips, to the advantage which would arise from enlarging this part of the Museum, by the addition of one complete series of all the species of Invertebral Fossil remains, yet discovered in Yorkshire. For the purpose of this new arrangement, the long table-case in which the Minerals have recently been placed, has been surmounted by stages under glass. To furnish any great proportion of the large number of select specimens proper for the systematic arrangement of the In- vertebral Fossils, the present Collections are inadequate, as they contain but few choice duplicates; but by application to several friends of the Society, resident on the coast, and by purchases to a moderate extent, upon a regular plan, the Council hope to make good progress in this undertaking, previous to the meeting of the British Association.
The Collection of Minerals has been entirely re-arranged in the new cases in the Geological Room, and enriched ‘by a splendid donation from the late Dr. Beckwith, including not only many specimens not previously possessed by the Society, but also a Col- lection of Gems, of such intrinsic value, as has seldom been received at one time by any similar public Institution.
To the Collection of Vertebrated Animals, fifty-three birds from Trinidad, in beautiful condition, have been added by Wm. Hatfeild, Esq.; and Mr. James Backhouse has presented several Lizards and
COUNCIL For 1843. 1l
Snakes, from Australia. A competent person has been employed to set up the numerous skins of Foreign Birds in the possession of the Society, previous to a complete new arrangement of the whole.
The additions to the collection of Comparative Osteology consist of twenty-nine skeletons of Foreign Mammalia, presented by Mr. Allis, the Curator; which, added to the valuable series previously in the possession of the Society, will make this collection, under the new arrangement, one of the most interesting in the Museum.
The Curator of British Botany has completed the Classification of the Herbarium, commenced by his precedessor, the Rev. W. Hincks, so far as regards the flowering Plants, and is proceeding with the Ferns. This collection is now in admirable order, and from the mode of its arrangement may be at any time conveniently referred to.
In return for some assistance in his enquiries relating to the Saxon Coinage, obtained from the cabinet of the Society by Mr. D. H. Haigh, of Leeds, that gentleman has presented to the Society upwards of one hundred and twenty Silver Coins, com- prising several of the Visigoth Kings, some of the Saxon period, and many belonging to the English Series. More than one hundred and fifty English Coins, chiefly modern, in Gold, Silver, and Copper, were likewise presented by the late Dr. Beckwith, not long before his death; and some beautiful impressions of Foreign Seals have been received from Edward Hailstone, Esq., of Bradford. Mr. R. Ready, of Leeds, having been allowed the use of the Matrices of the Ancient Seals in the possession of the Society, has in return presented a considerable number of casts of other Seals, principally connected with religious and other institutions of Yorkshire.
The Northumbrian Stycas mentioned in the last Report as part of a hoard recently discovered in York, have been purchased, partly by the proceeds of three Lectures on the state of York under the Anglo-Saxons, delivered by the Curator of Antiquities in the Theatre of the Museum, and partly by voluntary Subscriptions ; and they now form an interesting and very instructive portion of the Cabinet of Coins belonging to the Society.
The Roman and other Antiquities have been for the most part removed to the room now appropriated for them, and are at present under arrangement by the Curator.
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Among the Donations to the Library, the Council have to notice with peculiar satisfaction, a valuable work, by the Society’s highly respected Treasurer, Robert Davies, Esq., whose ‘‘ Eztracts from the Municipal Records of the City of York,’ to which his official con- nection with the Corporation afforded him a ready access, accom- panied with many curious ‘“‘ illustrative and explanatory notes,” have thrown much light on the history of York during that portion of the 15th Century which comprised the reigns of the three last kings of the Plantagenet race. The valuable Transactions of the various Scientific Societies continue to be received as usual. The Council hope that, by some changes which they propose to make during the present year, the Library will be rendered more available to the purposes for which it was intended.
The Laboratory continues in the same active service as usual. The regular course of Lectures to the Pupils of the York School of Medicine is in course of delivery ; and the Laboratory is well stocked with the requisites for general purposes. Some slight alterations will however be necessary previous to the meeting of the British Association.
Though the usual Astronomical Observations have been continued at the Observatory, the great want of proper instruments has pre- vented the Curator from remarking many interesting celestial phenomena, which have occurred during the past year. He has recently commenced a course of Lectures on Astronomy, by the proceeds of which he hopes, in part, to supply this deficiency; and the Council trust, ere long, to be able to make a grant for the same object.
The Curator of Meteorological Instruments has continued the Horary Observations at the Equinoxes and Solstices, which were commenced in 1842; and they have been regularly forwarded to the zealous and indefatigable M. Quetelet, of the Royal Academy of Brussels, and acknowledged by him.
The following are the results of these observations for the past year.
Vernal Equinox, Mean of 24 Obs, 49° occurring bet. 8 and 9 a.m. and 7 & 8 P.M. Summer Solstice ...++ 24.... 56.8% ...0..00.. 7 and 8a.M.and 7&8 P.M.
Autumnal Equinox .... 24....57.9% ....eee004 7 and 8a.m.and 7 & 8p.m. Winter Solstice .oe... 24 000+ 42.8% weeeeeeeee LO and Ila.m,.and3&4pP.m.
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counciL For 1843.
Period of Maximum and Minimum Mercurial Column.
3 P.M.
7
Vernal Equinox eee eeesecs maximum LEAL). vic cle w olediere minimum
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4PM.
6 A.M, eevee ereeeeee Autumnal Equinox .........++++... steadily ascending through the 24 hours.
Summer Solstice eee ee weee
6 AM.
8 P.M. eeeeeeoereee
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Winter Solstice
is given in
The Register of Meteorological Phenomena at York
the subjoined Table.
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The Temperature of the Year 1843 was, within a small fraction, the same as that of 1842, and 1s of a degree below the average of
the preceeding ten years. The mean height of the mercurial column
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was equal to the annual average. The quantity of rain was above the mean. One-third of the rain, viz., 8.68 inches, fell in August and October. Only .22 inch of rain fell during the month of December, being less than has been registered for that month during the last 14 years.
The Curator of this department has likewise paid some attention to the coincidence of Barometrical and Lunar Phenomena. The following table will exhibit a few results of these observations ; they seem to point to a field of labour not altogether unpromising.
Observations made at the Apogee and Perigee of the Moon, 1843.
APOGEE.
Wind. | Bar. Jan. 7 |4 afternoon |S. 29.24|Muchrain.... .21 in. Feb. 3 {11 evening |N. 29.21/Snow and rain .51 in. March 3/11 morning |N.W. 30.10|/Snow ........ -O8 in. 30/2 afternoon |S.E. 29.48\Rain’ .veecees ell ID
April 26 |9 evening |S.W. 29.64|Much rain .. .47 in. May 24 |10 morning |E.toS.W.| 29.76|Much rain.... .62 in.*
June 21 |4 morning |W. SOA Lear S55 <8 )s July 18 |10 evening |W. 29.83|Much rain .... Aug. 15 |5 evening |W. 30.07/Thunder storm 2.01 in. Sept. 12 |7 morning |N.E. 30.40|Very fair .... Oct. 9 |4 afternoon |N.W. bBo | RRA PES NGA Noy. 5 |7 evening |N. DSU lies ars t's ovis -29 in. Dec. 3 |8 morning [N.E. 30.37) Fair. 30 |S evening |S.W. 30.14)Rain’ ....0086:) 12 in.
PERIGEE.
Wind. | Bar.
} Jan. 18 |9 evening | S.W. 30.40 Feb. 16 |1 afternoon| N.W. | 29.63|}Minimum temp. 12°
Mar. 16 [noon N.E. 30.01]Wind changed to S.W. April 13/11 evening | N.W. | 30.00/Snow storm.... .24 in. May 12 |6 morning | S.W. 30.20) Fair.
: iy 31 in. June 9 |5 morning | W. 29.19 Sealab ots July 5 |2 afternoon | W. 29.83)Tremendous thund. storm. 30 {11 evening | W. 29.60) Fair:
Aug. 27 |3 afternoon | S.W. 30.20/Thunder storm 26th .19in. Sept. 24/9 evening | N.W. | 30.49/Very high tide 25th.
Oct. 23 |8 morning | W. 30.00|Much wind .... .17 in. Nov. 20 |8 evening | W. 29.15|Much rain .... .29 in. Dec. 19 |2 morning | S.W. 30.50) Fair.
* On the 4th of May, exactly midway between the Apogee and Perigee, a thunder storm occurred between noon and 3 P.M. With this, and one more
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Meteorological Observations have been received from a few Cor- respondents, and from these it appears that the quantity of rain which ‘fell
At Huggate, was............ 28.316 in. At Middleton, near Beverley .. 24.140 At Ackworth..... 65.0000 200: . 26.250 FE BUR A precisa +s» «2, 45.920
The Council cannot conclude their Report without again con- gratulating the Society on the bright prospect which is opening before it. The exertions of its members in the promotion of scientific research, stimulated by the approaching meeting of the British Association, and aided by the great increase of income which will be derived from the investment of the whole or greater part of the Legacy bequeathed to it, by Dr. Beckwith, and the ex- tension and improvement of the Museum and Gardens, which the ampler means at its disposal will enable the Council to effect, will, they are persuaded, at no distant day elevate this Society to a rank seldom attained by any similar Provincial Institution, and render it worthy the great County in which it is established.
similar exception in fnegst every thunder storm observed at York during the year, was either exactly coincident with these positions of the Moon, or within 24 hours of their occurrence.. Of these, the most remarkable for its violence happened on the 5th of July, and extended from Scarborough in the N.E. to Bristol in the S.W. Out of 27 recurrences of Apogee and Perigee, 19 were marked by change or crisis.
THE
TREASURER OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
IN ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1843.
Dr.
1843.
Annual Subscriptions and Arrears
Admission of New Members...... Ladies’ Subscriptions, and Keys of
the Gardens o....0.scessee cece | 00 15 0 Tickets at1s,each ......0e0.0-0. 82.7 9 Renters sos elie Teh Cea ee Oe OC Horticultural Exhibition ....... 1310 0 Hospitium Repairs......... 2 6 00 For copies of “Guide to the Mu-
BOMB" Uc cie ca lyGedeldabin tad < 042 Gas for Evening Meetings........ 110 9 Dec. 31st.
Permanent Debt,viz. £. s, d. Yorkshire Insurance
Company .......... 2500 0 0 William Gray, Esq. .. 1000 0 C Six Members at 502.
each ...... wren vee: OOO 2050
3800 0 0 Balance overdrawn Messrs. Swann & Co. Bist Dec., 1843........00-se000+ 1064.16. 2 £5623 5 1
Audited.
W. HATFEILD, J. BENTHAM.
1843.
Permanent Debt, viz.
Yorkshire Insurance Company .......... 2500 0 0
Wm. Gray Esq. ...... 1000 0 0
Six Members at 507 .. 300 0 0
Ea x 4
Balance overdrawn Messrs. Swann & Co.
DOOR FIOM Slay Cece saves cone Crown Rents ........ 101 Corporation Rents .... 6 8 8 Thsurance............5 6 0 0 Gate Keeper.......... 1113 6 Collector ...... Gee ike 10 0 0 Interest. .eiesccccees 17617 4 Sub-Curator on account 229 0 0 Sundry Bills:
New Cases .......... 65 5 0 Cluderay, Joiner...... 3517 0 York GasCompany .. 15 0 6 Hartley, Glazier...... 12 5 6 FEL CORIO fey ssecsee (ee OO J.F. Brown, Painter.. 13 8 0 A. Ryland, Esq. ...... 10 0 0 Property Tax ........ 5 1 5 Sundry Small Bills .. 113 11 8
Or.
$. 8. d.
3800 0 0
1093 10 11
439 19 7
289 14 7
£5623 5 1h
ANALYSIS OF DISBURSEMENTS
DURING THE YEAR 1843.
Orpinary ExpeEnsgs.
Rents, Rates, &c. :
Rent to the Crown ee «° Rent to the Corporation ..
Poor Rates, Highway Rate Land ‘and Pro-
perty Tax ae
Insurance and Water Rent. Salaries and Wages :
Sub-Curator ; Pps a Servant oe hai ae Lodgekeeper .. ° : Labourer tis ra ote Collector ‘ ae a Occasional Labourers Sis
Interest on Debt:
Interest on Mortgage Debt ws Interest on £1000 Interest to Bankers for being overdrawn
Museum, Gardens, Grounds, &c. : Painting and General Repairs Purchase and tiga pi of Specimens Observatory ve ° “is Library : Books and Binding
Incidentals :
Printing, Advertising, and haat stk Coals, Gas Light, and Coke Postages, Carriage, and Sundries
1618 2
2217 1 35 2 6 14.19 63
EXTRAORDINARY EXPENSES.
Mr. Arthur Ryland New Cases Ste Fitting up the Antiquarian ‘Room ae
for
Or
Or ooo
197 14 6
17617 4
128 17 4
16 18 2
7219 1
—_—_—
646 9 2
729 14 2
—_—_-
SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS
OF THE
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
ELECTED IN 1843—4.
1843. Major Brown, York.
Edward Hailstone, Horton Hall. Rev. John Robinson, Clifton.
1844,
James Anderton, York.
John Bownas Atkinson, York. Joseph Hick, York.
John Holtby, York.
George Leeman, York. William Taylor, York.
HONORARY MEMBERS ELECTED IN 1843.
Joseph Clarke, Cincinnati, U.S. Thomas Weaver, F.G.S. London.
RESOLUTIONS
PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEBRUARY 6, 1844.
1. That the Report of the Council be adopted and printed for the use of the Members.
2. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Vice-Presidents and Members of the Council retiring from office.
3. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Treasurer and Secretary for their valuable services.
4. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Curators for their diligent and useful services in the several departments of the Museum.
5. That the Council be empowered, on certain days, to be selected by them, during-the present year, to permit free admission to the Museum and Gardens to all persons; the mode of admission to be regulated by the Council.
6. That the Regulations adopted at the last eight Annual Meet- ings, for the admission of Strangers by the purchase of Tickets, be continued for the present year.
7. That the Council be authorized to admit to the Museum and Gardens, as temporary subscribers, any occasional visitors to York, not residing in the County, at the rate of one Pound for four months for themselves and their families; but that in no case shall such privilege be granted for a longer period than twelve months.
8. That the Resolution of the last Annual Meeting, empowering the Council to authorize the holding one or more Horticultural Meetings in the Society’s Gardens, be continued in force during the present year.
9. That the best Thanks of the Society be given to the Chairman and Committee of Management of the Horticultural Féte held in August last.
p 2
DONATIONS
THE SOCIETY’S MUSEUM.
GEOLOGY.
Mr. James Backhouse...........- Miscellaneous specimens from Van Dieman’s Land
Rev.“D. Ri Currer’. 0.002003. Specimens of Zamia, found nine miles to the north of Whitby.
J. Dalton, Esq. .---s2.--seseeeee Various specimens of fossils.
Mr..R.. Dalton . -...J2...2.0000+. A large specimen of Ammonite.
W. Hatfeild, Esq. ..----.----+-+- Fossils from Barbadoes.
Fossils from Ferriters Cove, County of Kerry. Mr. Maclauchlan, (Ordnance Fossils from the millstone grit near Brimham SUPUCY) .oeceecscercaseeccseeees Crags. Rey. F. O. Morris ..........-...- Polished scales of Tetragonolepis (Agassiz). Fossil horn of a stag. Lamina of tusk of a fossil elephant. Fossil tooth of a shark. 9 specimens of Ammonites.
Professor Phillips .......--+-++- - Posidonia from Devonshire. Trilobite (Asaphus Buchii) from Llandeilo, South Wales. ; Purchased i: 22:20), 28h s. bk Fossil head of Lepidotus. MINERALOGY. Dr. Beckwith .....0.scccesesseeees Large and valuable Collection of Minerals, late
the property of Francis Beckwith, Esq., in- cluding 442 specimens of gems, and a fine specimen of Lumachelli.
F. J. Copsie, Esq. .--..+--2++++++ Carbonate of copper. J. Dalton, Esq. ..+--seceseseeenes Various specimens of minerals.
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W. Hatfeild, Esq. ...+.+.++..00e+ Bitumen from the Pitch Lake of Trinidad. Ditto from near the Havanna. Miss Norcliffe ........+.sss2+000- . Specimen of the ashes which overwhelmed Pompeii. ZOOLOGY. VERTEBRATA. S. Barber, Esq. «......0+-.00eees- A variety of the fieldfare. James Backhouse, Esq. .....-.-- Brown Snake from Sidney.
The Rough Lizard from ditto.
Native cats, taken from the pouch of their dam, from Port Jackson.
Eggs of the beaded lizard, from ditto.
Flat-tailed or rock lizard, from ditto.
Iguana, just hatched from the egg, from ditto.
Tree frog of New South Wales, with numerous
lizards, &c. Dr. Beckwith ..........++-sseees0 2 specimens of Tortoise. W. J. Farrer, Esq. (Dromonby Fill)... -.e ees een eee nus sata A variety of the chaffinch. W. Hatfeild, Esq. .-....-+--++++« 53 skins of birds, from Trinidad. The bull frog, from Dominica. Mr. W. Hardman .«....250.....;. Australian stork, from the colleetion of Mrs. Colonel Dumaresq. ANNULOSA. James Backhouse, Esq. .......-. Catterpillars, from Sidney. Green centipede, ditto. Mrs. W. V. Harcourt............ A beetle, from the Brazils.
MOLLUSCA AND ZOOPHYTA,
W. Hatfeild, Esq. /2).......0..-: 2 shells, from the Bermudas. Fine specimen of Brain stone. R. Ward Jackson, Esq. ......... Loligo sagittalis, from the mouth of the Tees. S. Dalton, Esq. 1.000 (ss060.2005 Various specimens of shells. T. Rodd, Bag, ....:...ccccsecsteves Specimens of Auricula myosotis and Turbo
ulvya, from Redcar.
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BOTANY.
James Backhouse, Esq. .......... Fruit of the Barringtonia.
Mr. Baines (Sub-Curator) .....- Fruit of the Phytelephas macrocarpa (vegetable ivory).
Dr. Beckwith ......:...:...c.c05e% Specimens of various kinds of woods.
J, Dalton, Hsqe) os. wviesst teins Splendid collection of lichens, collected by the late Rev. J. Dalton, of Croft.
Rev: F. On Morne ee ce cck sates Various dried plants.
ANTIQUITIES.
W. L. Palmes, Esq. | --,.--<+-+-: An ancient Egyptian brick, found Feb. 1843, about 6 miles S.E. of Luxor.
A. Strickland, Esq. .......----..++ Two Roman bricks.
COINS, &c. Dr. Beclewith : .25. 0c 905ci aaalgy Heat 74 gold and silver, and 26 copper coins.
148 copper tokens, 24 engraved gems. 11 casts in porcelain of ancient coins.
Jo Daltony Ess), -icsuc 3s oesveen Various coins and medais.
E. Hailstone, Esq. ..............: Impressions of eight foreign seals.
D. H. Haigh, Esq. (Leeds)... 121 Saxon, English, and foreign coins.
Rev. F. 0. Mortis®:.05. sega 26 sulphur and plaster casts.
Miss Rachel Oldfield ............ Various coins, 7 in number,
Mr. R. Ready, (Leeds) ........ 50 sulphur casts of seals and coins.
Rev. C. Wellbeloved ..... ...... 9 Roman family coins. GARDEN.
Mr. Barrett, (Wakefield) SN et. 80 species and varieties of Fuchsia.
60 varieties of Chrysanthemum. 1 peck of Crocus roots.
Mr. ‘Borror). jescg vetsauen site wo Several rare British plants,
R.. Gilbert, Esqs.3.cshagpscme acess: 12 Kalmia latifolia. 12 Rhododendron.
J+ Roper, Esq... sceassconskvers bes 40 Geraniums.
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MISCELLANEOUS DONATIONS.
Mr. Schwerer (Stonegate)
Specimens of spun glass.
A Hindostanee breast-plate.
2 pair of Esquimeaux boots.
A Chinese hair cap.
Various artificial curiosities. One of the windows taken out of the S.W. tower of York Minster.
_ A wooden watch, made at Lenskirch, near Neu-
stadt, in the Black Forest, about 8 standia from Frieburgh, sent to Hull in 1819.
LIBRARY.
Academie Royale de Bruxelles...
Botanical Society of London ...
H. Breary, Esq. ..-.--<ee2e++eees —— Burrows, Esq. ..--+-...-+- Council of British Association... Rev. D..R: Currer .-.:.-3...:....
Issachar Cozzens, Jun. (the
Author) R. Davies, Esq. (the Author) ... Geological Society Cavalier Giuseppe Gené J. Hogg, Esq., M.A., F.L.S.
(the Author) ......s.00 ace ok
tee eee em are eet aeeaseeee
Steet earn ereeee
eee aeenee
Bulletins de l’Académie, Annee 1842, tom. ix. No. 7, & 1843, pt. 2. 6 Nos.
Instructions pour l’Observation des Phénoménes periodiques de Homme, par M. Schwann. Extr. des Bulletins.
Instructions pour l’Observation des Phénoménes periodiques. Extr. des Bulletins.
Nouveaux Memoirs de Academie Royale, tom. ix —1842, & tom. xvi.
Annuaire de l’Academie, 1842.
Resumé des Observations Magnetiques, &c.
Prospectus of the Society for 1843.
Tables of Mortality for 1842.
Description of the Fossil Deer of Ireland.
Report for 1842.
Monograph of the Ammonites of the Yorkshire Lias, described from Nature, by M. Simpson, Curator to the Geol. and Polytec. Society of the West Riding.
Geological history of Manhattan, or New York Island; with Maps, &c.
Records of York during the xv Century.
Proceedings of the Society for 1842—3.
Memoria par servire alla Storia Naturale, &c.
Catalogue of Sicilian Plants, with some Ke- marks, on the Geography, Geology, and Ve- getation of Sicily. (From Mag. Nat. Hist.)
WA LIBRARY.
James Hamerton, Esq. (the Arboriculture. A Paper read before the Geol.
Author) os.0 0. scabs des detetebes and Polytec. Society of the West Riding. Heys J. Rentick:. .. cises.svcoseese Address of the Committee, and list of Works of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Leeds Literary and Phil. Society. Report for 1841—2. J. M. Morgan, Esq. ..........-- Religion and Crime, or Distresses of the People and their Remedies, 1842. Professor Phillips. .........--- ++. Notes on the Commerce of France, in 1840. By order of Government........- Observations on Days of unusual Magnetic dis- turbance. Edward Hailstone, Esq. .......-. Geometry Improved, by Abraham Sharpe, 1712. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic SOCIELY cicseee cele ssmaseags aie Tenth Annual Report,
Professor Sedgwick and R. I. On the Distribution and Classification of the Murchison, Esq. (the Authors) Older or Palaeozoic Deposits of the North of Germany and Belgium, and on their com- parison with Formations of the same age in the British Islands. On the Fossils of the Older Deposits in the Rhenish Provinces, with Plates, by the Vis- count D’Archiac and M. E. de Verneuil. Royal Society of Edinburgh ... Proceedings of the Society, Nos. 21 & 22. Transactions of the Society, vol. xv. part 3. The Lords Commissioners of Groombridge’s Catalogue of Circumpolar Stars,
the Admiralty ..........50..200. edited by G. Biddell Airy, Esq. A.M., Astro- nomer Royal. W. Oldfield, Esq. .......-..-.++: An exact list of the Voluntary Subscribers, with
the sums each subscribed and paid, for the security of his Majesties person and Govern- ment, and for the defence of the County of York. Dated 1747. Rev. J. Montgomery Traherne, M.A. &c. (the Author) ...... Historical notices of Sir Matthew Cradock. Zoological Society ..-..+... +++. Proceedings for 1842.
Printed by R. Burdekin, High-Ousegate, York.
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MONTHLY 3
1844, Marcu —— APRIL —— May a — Jon Be
RULES. OF Al MISSIO
To THE ‘MUSEUM ‘anp GARDENS
:: Means: of the Society (and ‘Conkatntoss of £15. and upw Building Fund,) have the. privilege of personal admission, and of P INTRODUCING Visitors to the Moseam and coe at all times ° open.
name of the Member or Cankeibuker: “and ‘bear ‘the 1 admitted. Such written orders are received at the Lodge ‘ lay (Su ripriege from the hour of Ten a. a. till Four p. M., and must be left
Lodge-keeper. N, B. He is. forbidden to accept mone rom Visit
eh aN LLaDtEs who are admitted by the Counci as Annual Subscribers of £ -- (or who have contributed £10. or. upwards to th ‘Building. Fun e
oe privilege of. personal - SaarhaoR. and. ‘of PERSONALLY introducing “LADIES aS occasional Visitors. ; :
1V. Senangint may Ones (at Mr. Chapman Coney Stree at Mrs Wilson’s Lendal, near the Museum Gate, at Mr. gta High. rate, and. at Mr, Linney’s, Low-Ousegate,) ADMISSION ‘Tickers, price | _each person ; which will entitle them to admittance at all times w and Gardens are ee re Seon excepted). ‘The left at the a ie
Vi. Mees: aad cela Saiisled to _personala ry of the Private Entrances to the Garden, on sop ation Musee. being dre of Five ee for the :
Ge ise till due On Sundays there mission "between the hours re) oe aad eine The Musevs mt clog bg < ns
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Porkshire Philosophical Society,
ANNUAL REPORT
FOR
MDCCCXLIV.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE COUNCIL
OF THE
YORKSHIRE
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
FOR
MDCCCXLIV
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
FEBRUARY 4, 1845.
ROBERT SUNTER, 23, STONEGATE.
1845.
TRUSTEES OF
THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT.
EDWARD, LORD ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. GEORGE, EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G. CHARLES WILLIAM, EARL FITZWILLIAM. THOMAS PHILIP, EARL DE GREY.
HON. ann VERY REV. HENRY HOWARD, D.D. SIR WILLIAM LAWSON, BART., F.S.A. FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ., F.S.A.
ROBERT DENISON, ESQ.
REV. WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S. RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
PATRONESSES
OF THE Porkshire Philosophical Society.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. H. R. H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT.
PATRONS.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G. EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S. EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F.R.S. THE VISCOUNT MORPETH. THE LORD STOURTON. THE LORD WHARNCLIFFE. THE LORD FEVERSHAM. THE LORD WENLOCK.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1845.
PRESIDENT:
Eary Firzwittiam, F.R.S.
VICE-PRESIDENTS :
tx Lord Mayor or York, F.G.S. Cuartrs HENEAGE Etstey.
Rev. Wm. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S. Sir J. V. B. Jounstone, Barr., M.P. Sin J. H. Lowruer, Barrt., M.P. Proressor Puittrps, F.R.S.
Rev. Cuartes WELLBELOVED.
TREASURER: Rozert Davies, F.S.A.
COUNCIL:
Elected 1842...... HENry Rosrnson, Wititiam WHYTEHEAD. Elected 1843...... JAMES BARBER, Cartain BEntTHAM, Rev. Joun Kenrick. Elected 1844...... Rev. R. B. Cooxr, GrorceE Gotpir, M. D. Tuomas Henry Travis. Elected 1845...... Tuomas ALLIs, Favit James Corsi, GrorcE Hupson, W. L. Newman, F.R.A.S.
SECRETARY :
Tuomas Meyne tt, Jun., F.L.S.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM:
Epwarp Cuaritesworth, F.G.S.
HONORARY CURATORS:
ANTIQUITIES... «.. « Rev. C.. WELLBELOVED. BoTAaNY eee eee eee) eee Oswatp ALLEN Moore. ComMPaRATIVE ANATOMY ... THomaAs ALLIs. LABORATORY sow eee avd sis BARKER) Liprary ... «. « «. GEeorcEe Gotpizr, M.D.
METEOROLOGY .. «.. «©. JOHN Forp. OBSERVATORY «2 «oo « W.L. Newman, F.R.A.S.
SUB-CURATOR:
Henry BalIneEs.
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
TO THE
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, ON THE 4th OF FEBRUARY, 1845.
Tuer proceedings which the Council, in presenting their Report for the past year, are called upon to record, have in great measure taken their shape and colour from an event in which this Society could not but feel the liveliest interest ; namely, the reception in York of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
A strong and general desire was entertained amongst us, that a body which, since it was called into existence within the walls of our Museum, has enrolled in its list of Members almost every name of eminence in the United Kingdom, in every department of science, should be received on its return hither with a becoming welcome; and that our distinguished visitors, domestic and foreign, in this stage of the Associ- ation’s honourable and useful course, should experience no lack of any service which it was in the power of the Society to render.
The Council rejoice in considering themselves entitled to add that the desire thus cordially felt, has been entirely ful- filled. The Second Meeting of the British Association at York is allowed to have been not less satisfactory as regards the suc- cess of the arrangements made for its reception, than in rela- tion to the scientific interest which attended its proceedings, This gratifying result is to be attributed, in the first place, to
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the liberal manner in which the call of the Council was re- sponded to, when application was made to the Members of the Society, and to other gentlemen residing within the county, for contributions to the Reception Fund; the sum raised in consequence having amounted to nearly £1100.
Secondly, this result was owing to the generous co-opera- tion of the Authorities of the City, who, under the guidance of those enlightened views by which they are distinguished, placed the Guildhall and its numerous apartments at the ser- vice of the Association ; and to a similar feeling on the part of other public bodies, who, almost without exception, granted the gratuitous use of the rooms under their charge.
Lastly, the success of the arrangements was due to the indefatigable exertions of the Local Committee, a body which, whilst it included members of several other scientific insti- tutions belonging to this county, was so constituted that the Council were enabled with perfect confidence to intrust the interests and credit of the Society to its hands, and to devolve upon it the whole charge of those preparations which proved so highly satisfactory.
One of the most important preliminary measures, in a scientific view, which the Council adopted, was to request several Members of the Society, and others competent for the task, to draw up reports on the several branches of the Natural History of Yorkshire, especially with regard to the geogra- phical distribution of its plants and animals, and the mineral productions of its mining districts.
‘The report on the last-mentioned subject was zealously undertaken by a Member of the Society, who had long de- voted his energies and talents to the promotion of its in- terests ; and whose untimely loss it had to deplore at a mo- ment when his exertions inits behalf were of the greatest value. Mr. Hatfeild had expressly undertaken a tour through the mining districts of the North of England, for the purpose of collecting mineral specimens, and obtaining mineralogical information, with a view to the report which, had he lived,
COUNCIL FoR 1844. 9
he would have presented to the Association. The collection of specimens, which is extensive and valuable, has been by his Executor liberally presented to the Museum. A catalogue of the Birds of Yorkshire, more complete than any which natu- ralists possessed, was contributed by Mr. Allis, and the com- pilation of a list of the Yorkshire Fishes was entrusted to Mr. Meynell. Mr. Moore and Mr. Baines supplied a catalogue of the Plants of the county, supplemental to the excellent Flora printed by the latter in 1840. These researches into the Natural History of Yorkshire, it is hoped, will be further prosecuted ; and, together with the collections of Meteorolo- gical Observations due to the industry of the Curator of that department, may hereafter constitute a publication which will go far to realize the expectations held out in the original prospectus of the designs of the Society. Two of the mem- bers of the Local Committee who, though residing at a dis- tance from York, assisted assiduously in all the preparations for the meeting, contributed also to the same scientific object ; Mr. West by furnishing a chemical analysis of the Mineral Waters, and Mr. Lucas of the Limestones of Yorkshire. Another measure, preparatory to the Meeting of the Asso- ciation, but essentially serviceable to the objects of this So- ciety, consisted in a general revision of the arrangements of the Museum, and of the various collections which it comprises. When the Council came to consider the uses to which it was most material to apply the munificent legacy lately bequeathed to the Society, they had no difficulty in determining that the object of the greatest importance to the scientific character of the Institution was to attach to it an officer who might not only be qualified by a competent knowledge of the va- rious branches of Natural History to take the collections under his charge, but might also be endowed with zeal: and ability to improve them, and render them subservient to the promotion of science. Such an officer the Society formerly possessed in Professor Phillips, and such an of- B
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ficer the Council conceive that they have again found in Mr. Edward Charlesworth. This gentleman, since he entered upon the office of Keeper of the Museum in July last, has ful- filled its duties in a manner which leaves nothing to be desired. His statement to the Council, containing a full ac- count of the improvements which have since been made in the Museum, and of its present condition, is subjoined to the Report. (See page 14.)
At the same time that the Council expended on the Mu- seum and Library such sums as they deemed necessary to sup- ply some of their most prominent deficiencies, they thought it right to attend to the application of the Astronomical Curator for an improvement of the apparatus under his care. In furtherance of this object, Mr. Newman undertook, in the early part of the year, to deliver a Course of Lectures on Astronomy; the proceeds of which after the payment of the expenses, he liberally placed at the disposal of the Council. And they are happy to state that he has reported very favourably on the merits of the new Transit Instrument which has in consequence been mounted in the Observatory, executed by an ingenious artist of this city (Mr. Cooke), with a pecu- liarity in the construction of the object-glass, which is worthy of attention.
For the employment of this instrument the Observatory may perhaps suflice, even in its present state; but the Council cannot but express a hope that the building, which as yet is unadapted to any but the simplest observations, may here- after be enlarged and improved, so as to become at once more available for astronomical use, and more ornamental to the gardens in which it stands.
One of the buildings within the grounds, which possesses no little interest, as being a remnant of the Monastery of St. Mary, has been put into a state of effective repair, and has afforded two spacious rooms, the upper of which was prepared for the Geological Section of the Association. The lower
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apartment the Council have appropriated to the architectural fragments of the Abbey, and other antiquarian specimens, for which it is well fitted from its character and size.
The business incident to the reception of the Association being concluded, the Council proceeded to carry into execution a wish known to have been expressed by that great benefactor of the Society, the late Dr. Beckwith, by erecting a distinct dwelling house for the Sub-curator. This long-contemplated ‘improvement has been so successfully executed, that while the desired accommodation has been obtained at a moderate cost, the style of the building, harmonizing with the architecture of the adjoining ancient palace, will, it is hoped, be considered as adding an appropriate embellishment to the site.
The Grounds attached to the Museum, even in their former limited extent, have been acknowledged by all persons of com- petent taste, to possess almost unrivalled capabilities for picturesque beauty. But when called upon by a generally expressed wish, to add to the public enjoyment by the en- largement of the Gardens, the Council felt that it would require the skill of an accomplished artist to surmount the peculiar difficulties presented by the site, so as to produce the most pleasing effects by the harmony or contrast of its varied architectural features, and to open out the most interesting views of more distant objects, while excluding as much as possible such as are unsightly or incongruous.
The Council, therefore, having first removed the principal impediments to the enlargement of the Museum Gardens by an agreement with the Commissioners of the Ouse Navigation, alike beneficial to the Society and the public; and having taken into their hands all the Society’s demesne, excepting the small portion of it which is let on long leases, had recourse to the professional aid of a gentleman of high reputation in the art of Landscape Gardening, to assist them in the task of laying out the grounds in such a manner as to satisfy all the requirements of a refined taste ; and they have the gratifica-
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tion of finding that the design planned by Sir John Nasmyth, and now far advanced towards completion under the superin- tendence of the Garden Committee, has met with very general acceptance.
Amongst the happiest incidents of these improvements may be enumerated the addition of an architectural platform which has long been desired to give full effect to the facade of the Museum, the exposure of the moulded base of the Hospitium with the adjoining archway, and the opening out a better view of the beautiful remnants of mixed Norman and Pointed archi- tecture connected with the Abbey.
That which still remains to be wished, for the perfection of
the alterations on which so much care has been bestowed, is to include, if possible, within the Society’s precincts those re- ‘mains of monastic antiquity contiguous to the principal entrance, which the public spirit of the Corporation has re- cently relieved from the mean sheds and walls by which they were defaced -and concealed.
On the subject of these remains the Council purpose to pre- sent the following memorial :
“ To the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of York,
THE MEMORIAL OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Sheweth, That the Hospital of St. Leonard’s
was one of the most ancient and most richly endowed of the Religious Houses established in York. Only one small por- tion of this Hospital, which formerly occupied a considerable space, is now remaining, supposed to be a part of a covered cloister or ambulatory, and exhibiting an interesting specimen of the architecture of the age to which it belongs. In the changes which York is undergoing, it is not improbable that it may share the fate of St. William’s Chapel and other relics of past ages recently swept away, unless it shall be placed under the protection of some public institution, in- terested in the preservation of the antiquities by which the
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City of York is so eminently distinguished. That if the Corporation of the City can make such arrangements, as that this valuable relic may be enclosed within the grounds of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and cleared of the modern structures by which it is now almost entirely concealed, it will be safe from further injury,and add another object of picturesque beauty and of antiquarian and historical interest to those which now render the Gardens of the Society so attractive to the eye of taste, so gratifying and instructive to the lover of ancient art, and so great an ornament tothe City of York. That in executing this public improvement, and in conse- quence diverting the entrance into the stables now occupied by one of its tenants, the Corporation would further enable the Society to restore the fragment of the Roman Wall, de- tached by that entrance, to its connection with the portion pre- served in the Society’s grounds, and thus materially improve the effeet of one of the most remarkable remains of remote antiquity existing in England.”
Should this application happily be complied with, and the interesting relics described in the memorial be thus added with those already in the care of the Society, this will constitute one of the most striking improvements that has yet been effected, and will leave the Council no cause to re- gret the large expenditure employed upon the Museum Gardens, whereby, within so limited a space, so unusual a variety of interesting objects are displayed to so great ad- vantage.
As might have been expected, the alterations in the Mu- seum and grounds have entailed upon the Society a heavy ex- pense. The Council, however, have the satisfaction of sta- ting that a large portion of this outlay has been incurred in re- pairing and painting the Museum, which is now placed in such a state of repair as it will require but little annual expense to maintain. <A further cost will, indeed, have to be incurred in providing the means of warming the rooms; the present
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apparatus having been found insufficient for the purpose, and not perfectly secure.
The Council have had much pleasure in observing the steadily increasing attraction which. the Museum and Gardens have presented to the public. This increase has manifested itself in a largely augmented income from the sale of tickets, notwithstanding the great additional facilities of admission granted by the Council to thousands of visitors, who have been attracted to the city through the accommodation afford- ed to them by the Railway Companies.
Extracts from the Report of the Keeper of the Museum.
GEOLOGY.
Reference was made in the Report of last year to the desi- rableness of displaying in the Museum a duplicate series of Yorkshire Fossils, arranged in the order of their natural affinities. This plan, which originated with Professor Phillips, has within the last six months been partly carried into execu- tion. Several hundred species of fossils, principally obtained from the coast, and from the Oolite quarries of Malton and Pickering, are now exhibited in the raised central case of the Geological Room, which has been found admirably adapted for the purpose. The classification adopted is the same as that followed by Professor Phillips in his synoptical table of the organic remains of Yorkshire. Great care has been taken in the selection of the most perfect fossils that could be pro- cured, and, whenever practicable, the specimens are mounted on tablets labelled with the name under which each species is described, its locality and stratigraphical position, and a re- ference to the work in which a figure or description is to be found. It is hoped that this series may ultimately include characteristic specimens of all the procurable published and unpublished invertebral fossils of Yorkshire.
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Considered as objects of scientific investigation, Fossils should always be regarded in two points of view: first, in relation to the particular rocks in which they occur ; secondly, in their structural relations to one another, and to the entire range of species throughout the animal kingdom.
Undoubtedly the identification of strata through the evi- dence of their included fossils, should be the first considera- tion in a Museum contemplating the objects embraced by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. But as the critical investi- gation of organic remains by which these identifications are arrived at, is a purely zoological process, it is not enough to display fossils only in a stratigraphical arrangement. More- over, the unequal duration of certain forms in the ancient Fauna of the Globe, or the marked changes which certain others present when continued through several geological pe- riods, and which together constitute one of the most curious phenomena that the science of Geology has made known, can only be advantageously studied when the several species of a genus are exhibited together; it being of course understood that each species is accompanied by an indication of the for- mation in which it oceurs. The duplicate invertebral fossils contained in the British Museum are now being arranged by the side of the most nearly allied forms in the collection of living species. This important step was accomplished by a representation to the Trustees in 1840, from the Members of the British Association. Henceforth, therefore, in our national collection, the student in Zoology will find the past and existing Fauna presented to his notice as one common object of contemplation, and the unphilosophical distinction which to a great extent has made them separate branches of scien- tific enquiry, will gradually be abandoned.
One source from which the Council anticipate a large aug- mentation to the geological collection, is in the exchange of duplicate fossils with other museums and private collections. The position of York on the Red Marl, and the consequent bar- renness of the immediate neighbourhood, has hitherto rendered
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the Museum almost entirely dependant upon donations, and the occasional purchase of such fossils as its funds would per- mit. But the railway now in progress to Scarborough, with its branches to Whitby and Bridlington, besides passing through the well known Oolite districts of Malton and Pickering, will greatly facilitate the means of communication with the three richest spots on the coast; and in anticipation of the facility likely to be thus afforded for obtaining the fossils of the Yorkshire Oolites and Lias, a correspondence has already
been opened with the collectors of Mountain Limestone fos- sils, a department in which, taking into consideration the number of species known to occur in the county, the Museum has been greatly deficient.
Although the whole district of Yorkshire, from its numerous fossiliferous rocks and varied physical phenomena, every where offers materials for further research, yet there are two subjects connected with its geology, upon which more information is particularly wanted. These are the relations of the Tertiary strata superimposed upon the Chalk at Bridlington, to similar deposits, but more largely developed, in Norfolk and Suffolk, and a better acquaintance with the fossils of that extremely interesting bed on the coast, known as the Speeton Clay.
Great accessions have been made to the Geological depart- ment of the Museum during the past year. Several opportu- nities have occurred, enabling the Council to enrich the col- lection of Yorkshire fossils, in both the vertebrate and inverte- brate series, at a moderate cost; whilst the additions received through donations have been unusually numerous and valu- able.
On the list of contributions which call for particular notice, is the episternal bone of the gigantic species of land-tortoise found by Captain Cautley and Dr. Falconer in the Tertiary Siwallic Hills of Northern India, and which, from its enor- mous dimensions, has been described by its discoverers under the name of Colossochelys Atlas. It is to Dr. Falconer that the Society is indebted for this acquisition, not less valuable
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for its extreme rarity, than for the instructive evidence it affords to the most casual observer, of the almost incredible size at- tained, during a comparatively recent epoch in the geological history of the Globe, by some species in the Chelonian group. The most prominent place that could be fixed upon in the Geological room has been selected for the exhibition of this valuable donation.
Along with a collection of Silurian fossils from the neigh- bourhood of Cincinnati, our zealous corresponding member Mr. Joseph Clarke has presented a fine tooth of the Mastodon giganteus, a donation particularly acceptable, as the Museum, although so rich in the remains of the fossil elephant, had pre- viously nothing to illlustrate the remarkable dentition of this nearly allied but extinct genus of proboscidean Pachydermata. Another tooth but from the celebrated locality in Kentucky termed Big-bone Lick, and to the very small size of which, Mr. Clarke in his letters directs particular attention, will probably be found to be the third milk-tooth of the same species. Passing from foreign accessions to those we have received in Home Geology, a large series of Silurian fossils, collected by herself in the neighbourhood of Great Malvern, has been presented by Miss Phillips. The collection of fossil fishes has been enriched by some beautiful specimens of the genera Platysomus and Palzoniscus from the magnesian lime- stone near Ferryhill, presented by George Hudson, Esq. The Lord Mayor has presented a very choice collection of fossils from the Cornbrash and inferior Oolite in the neighbourhood of Scarborough; and a few valuable specimens from the Coral- line Oolite have been given by Mr. Pickering and Mr. Barton, of Malton.
From Lord Prudhoe the Museum has received a very in- structive series of specimens of Stigmaria ficoides, from the sandstone of the Coal Measures near Darlington; and.a_ por- tion of a large fossil stem found in the coal at Wigan has been kindly forwarded to the Museum by S. Hailstone. Esq.
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The extensive series of Tertiary Fossils, which has long formed one of the most instructive features in the general collection, has been increased by the donation of some choice fossils of the Coralline Crag from Mr. Start, of Mettingham.
Amongst the fossils obtained by purchase, and deserving of particular notice, is a large ammonite from the Calcareous Grit of the Yorkshire Coast, in which a fortunate blow near the base of the outer chamber has beautifully displayed an included Aptychus or Trigonellite, a fossil body, the natural relations of which have proved a most fruitful subject of speculation among naturalists. It is believed that no similar example is to be found in any other collection of Yorkshire fossils. A small specimen of the Crocodile (Teleosaurus) from the Lias of Whitby, in which the under surface of the lower jaw is beautifully shown, and some fine examples of fishes from the same formation, including the genera Pachycormis, Ptycho- lepis, and Lepidotus, have likewise been added to the collection. A purchase has also been made of a few very choice fossils from the neighbourhood of Lyme-Regis, and various mamma- lian remains and miscellaneous fossils from Bacton in Norfolk.
ZOOLOGY.
During the first six months of the year, an experienced bird-stuffer was employed upon the premises in setting up a selection from the numerous skins of foreign birds which had long been accumulating in the Society’s stores; so that more than 300 additional specimens are now exhibited in the room appropriated to the ornithological collection. A recent donation of 80 skins of birds from Van Dieman’s Land, presen- ted by Sir John Franklin, and another from Mr. Gould of 100 Australian Species, have rendered it desirable to re-engage the services of the same person. The Council having determined upon adding to the Library a copy of the splendid work onthe Birds of Australia, now in course of publication by Mr. Gould, this gentleman has undertaken to furnish free of cost to the Society, a complete scientific catalogue of the entire ornitho-
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logical collection in the Museum. Attractive as the foreign birds are, regarded only as objects of popular interest, it is hardly necessary to remark how greatly the value of the collection will be increased, when every specimen shall have been criti- cally examined, and its species determined, by so competent an authority as Mr. Gould. In connection with this branch of Natural History, Mr. Meynell has presented the Museum with his entire collection of Eggs of British Birds, amounting to more than 400 specimens, and embracing upwards of 200 spe- cies. Lieut. Rhodes has presented the Museum with a collec- tion of West Indian Fishes, valuable for the unusual perfection in which their characters have been preserved, as well as for their intrinsic interest ; the collection containing many of the more remarkable tropical genera, as Platax, Balistes, Mono- canthus, &e.
The sum of £.50 has been laid out in the purchase of Shells, to improve the general conchological collection, which now contains examples of nearly all the well-marked generic forms, and is sufficiently complete to be consulted with ad- vantage. Mr. Joseph Clarke has likewise presented the Museum with a fine series of North-American Uniones.
The British marine shells have been remounted on tablets and arranged in the raised case above that containing the foreign collection. Although this series includes most of the larger British species, yet, as a whole, it is but a very imper- fect illustration of our native Testaceous Fauna, embracing not more than 250 out of above 600 species known to inhabit the British Seas. It is probable, however, that many present desiderata will be obtained, when railway communication shall have rendered the Coast more easily accessible.
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Extract from the Report of the Curator of Comparative Anatomy.
During the past year valuable additions have been made to our osteological collections. The bones of the Polar Bear have been presented to the Society by Mr. Hammond, of Hull, and the bones of several mammalia by the Curator of this department. Most of these have been mounted, and are exhibited in the cases of the Museum, as well as the skeletons of the Tapir and Nyl-Ghau, which were previously in the So- ciety’s possession. These additions have, it is believed, placed the collection of the skeletons of the Mammalia at the head of all the provincial collections in this country ; a position which the Society already occupied with respect to its col- lection of the skeletons of Birds. This extensive collection is now placed in what was lately the Mineralogical Room, where it is well displayed and of easy access.
Extract from the Report of the Curator of Antiquities.
The donations to the Collection of Antiquities have this year been unusually few. The Society is however much indebted to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral for having allowed the Mithraic Tablet in their possession to be deposited amongst the Antiquities of the Museum. This is one of the most in- teresting remains of Eboracum. Of the very few monuments relating to the worship of Mithras by the Romans which have been found in Britain, it is the most perfect; and though rude in workmanship, in its characteristic emblems it is allied to some of the most curious and remarkable of similar monuments known to exist in Europe.
Extract from the Report of the Curator of Meteorology.
The temperature of the year 1844 was .3 of a degree below the average of the preceding 13 years, and .2 above that of the year 1843. The mean height of the mercury was above the average. The rain of 1844 has been less than that of any
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year since 1835, amounting only to 19-65 inches, and being 43 inches below the mean. In the four summer months thunder and lightning were of frequent occurrence, but these storms were not distinguished by violence or duration. The times of the moon’s apogee and perigee have again been care- fully observed. They have not borne the critical character which was noticed last year. Two storms of extreme violence, and more destructive at sea than any others during the year, coincided with the moon’s apogee. The first of these occurred on the 24th of February. About that period the mercury rose and fell to an extent and with a rapidity unprecedented during the year. On the morning of the 24th it stood at 29:05; in the evening it had risen .6, and again fell rapidly to 28°75, the lowest point in the year. The second storm, nearly coincident with the apogee, commenced on the 13th of June; on the 14th it blew a hurricane from the N. W. Hourly observations have again been made at the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes, and at the Summer Solstice. They were not carried on at the Winter Solstice. The following are some of the results :— Vernal Equinox, Mean of 23 Obs, 39° between... 9 and 104.M.and 6 p.m.
Autumnal Equinox.............-+++- By sekises sntee ccs Zand 84.M.and6 p.m. Summer Solstice .............2..20008 GUS Ea eke eee: at 8a.m.and 8 p.m.
Period of Maximum and Minimum Mercurial Column :
Vernal Eq. Max. 10 a. m., then steadily descending till the end of Observations, Autumnal ditto, Max. Noon : Minimum, 7 p.m. Summer Solstice, Max. 8 a. M., steadily descending throughout.
Result of Observations made throughout the year on the Oscillations of the Mercurial Column.
Mean height at nine, A.M. ---+--..,.seceeceeeeeeee 29°9677 GNECO, DEMS: crvesscewncsuveidisess. 29°9566 Mean daily depression at three, P.M. ............ 0121
Mean height for the whole year, the result of OOO GDSCRVAEIONNC. 005. . igecs vote scocctausw ase 29°9599.
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Communications of the amount of Rain in different localities in Yorkshire, have been received as follows :—
Inches, York + 19°65 Ackworth ... 18°82 Middleton ... 19°05 Kirby Moorside 23°86 Settle... ... 27°44 Huggate --- 17°15 (reported asa deficiency of nearly 10 inches.) Doneaster ... 18°18
Marr, Doncaster 1875
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER—YORK, 1844.
Barometer. Rain. Thermometer. Fa o~—_—"* ” eal A cans Y ae Vink 3 = & pi|% 8 & ws ot 9) 2 eo : lg oh Mea ba oe a yale 2 fbaeeig ds is ES 8 4 th BIR e em | a8 Sais § ge 5jggks Be 3 2 ale 4 5 a* Jan. |30-01)30°51|29°15 ie pets 38 (52 21, 14) 16 , Westerly Feb. |29-62/30°18| 28°75 bad 39-8|27°7|33'8 47/15 | 24 | 13 | Westerly Mar. |29°85|30°58/29°15 Bhi = 33-9 40-4 60|27|| 12 | 17 |Southerly April |30°18 30°55|29°68)|0°56) 60-4 39:1/49°7 66) 31 6 |Westerly
May [30°24)30°62|29-92)|0°39, 62-4 41°1/51-8/72) 33 9 |Northerly
June |29°97|30°26}29°68 |2°21| 67:2 48°5|57°8 81/42 13 |S Westerly July |29°93)30°28/29°32 |2°86 69 |48°6/58-8'81/41
| Aug. |29°82)30-42|29°33 |2°03) 66-3 48-0|57-0'74 40
16 | Westerly From NWtoSW
Sept. |30°11!30-45|29-70!|1-88) 64.4! 46°3'55-3'79 35 10 |N Easterly
| | Oct. |29°71|30°40) 28°95 | 1°22 nee 39°7|47°6 walt |
|
Nov. |29°86|30°43}29-00) |2°37 “48-6 39°3)43°9 so
15 |Variable.N,S,W
nm 8 O- -@ 240° 7O> ©. - — o
16 |Southerly
Dec. |30-16|80°59129°49 \0°39!, 38°7| 30°7'34+7 44122 23 6 \S East f Total . Mean An. rt pay Memty ee 95 Er }19 65 Temp. }4r4 80 153 COMPARATIVE PREVALENCE OF WINDS. N S E W NE NW SE SW 5S" 4803 162.78 32 34 50 67 = 366
THE
TREASURER OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
IN ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1844.
Dr. 1844,
£. « d. Annual Subscriptions and Arrears 426 0 0
Admi:sion of New Members .... 55 0 0 Compositions in lieu of Annual
Subscriptions ..-..e..-e+eeee0. 40 0 0 Ladies’ Subscriptions and Keys
of the Gardens .............. 59 7 Tickets at 1s. each ............ 12418 BOGEN: ivcsgweesaxces cedésseses OO 25
Use of the Tent ..ccccseccsecees Mr. Newman's Lectures ........ Gas for Evening Meetings 110 Dr. Beckwith’s Legacy (less duty) 9000 0 Permanent Debt, viz. : Mortgage on the Manor Shore .. 2500 0 0 Wm. Gray, Esq... 1000 0 0 Six Members at £50 each ...... 300 0 0
o —) eoocoaq oae fe
8800 0 0 183,606 9 9 Balance overdrawn Messrs. Swann and 1221 14 1
Co., Dee. Sist, 1844
Audited, Feb. 3rd, 1845, JAS. BARBER, T. H. TRAVIS.
£14,828 3 10
Cr.
1844, Bo eG. Be ed. Permanent Debt, viz. : Yorkshire Insu- rance Company 2500 0 0
W. Gray, Esq. .. 1000 0 0 Six Members at £50 each .... 300 0 0 3800 0 0 Balance overdrawn Messrs. Swann and Co. Dec. 31st, 1843 1064 16 2 Crown Rent ...... pW | Age | Corporation Rents.. 68 8 Insurance ........ 5 0 0 Gate Keepers ...... 14 5 0 Keeper of Museum 7410 0 Collector .......... 10 0 0 Interest '*.....5 2% - 142 9 4 Sub-Curator, on Ac- count of Salary, Labour, &c. .... 559 0 0 832 13 1 Sundry Bills: New Cases ...eseee 305.10 113 Repairs of the Hos- pitium .......... 172 9. 9 Instruments for the Observatory...... 103 18 6 Executors of Dr. _ Beckwith ..cccce 60.0.0 Mr. Cluderay, Joiner 5716 34 >, Noton, Glazier... 26 610 », Brown, Painter. 8517 0 »» Bowes, Bricklayer 23 6 4 >», Buckley, Mason 59 6 7 »» Turner,Plasterer 8510 7 >», Walker, Iron- monger...... 2212 7 Purchase of Books... 38914 0 Purchase of Speci- MIGNS 5 .ckccse nae dao 14, 0 Sundry Small Bills.. 20510 9 Property Tax ...... 5 15 Garden Alterations 12510 0 1504 5 7
Yorkshire Insurance Company 2500 0 0 Purchase of £5000 New 34 per Cent. Annuities, andexpenses 5126 9 0
£14,828 3 10
ANALYSIS OF DISBURSEMENTS DURING THE YEAR 1844.
ORDINARY EXPENSES.
Rents, Rates, &e.: Rent to the Crown Rent to the Corporation ...
Poor Rates, Highway Rates, Land & Peoneny Tax 10
Insurance and Water Rent
Salaries and Wages : Keeper of the Museum
Sub-Curator (including petty Babee
Servant as ee. Lodge-keeper and Cate ecg Labourer
Collector
Occasional Lebanon ers
Interest on Debt: Interest on Mortgage Debt Interest on £1000
Interest to Bankers for being vinden
Museum, Gardens, Grounds, &ce. : Painting and General Repairs
Purchase and Preparation of Specimens
Observatory
Library : Books and Binding
Incidentals : Printing, Advertising, and Stationery Coals, Gas-light, and Coke ee Postages, Carriage, and Sundries
. 100
ee 1 6 11
74 10
0 20 0 14 5 36 8
0
asoosoaeoesds
ae ie 30 12 104 39 14 2
EXTRAORDINARY EXPENSES.
Subscription to Dr. Beckwith’s Monument New Cases
Repairs of the Hospitiam
Instruments for the Observatory
Alterations in the Gardens, Removal of Giesudieieee: pes
£1
112 5 63
28 10 4
361 18 6
504 1 64
84 8 5h
60 0 0 305 10 114 172 9 9 103 18 6 470 6 4
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SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS ELECTED SINCE THE LAST ANNUAL REPORT. 1844,
James Chadwick, York.
Randall Hatfeild, Thorp-Arch.
Henry J. Lesley, Sinnington, Pickering. Joseph Rider, Thirsk.
William Scawin, York.
Thomas Wright, York.
JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1845.
Benjamin Burnell, York.
Henry Nelson Champney, York.
Henry Cobb, Heworth Place, York. George Fowler Jones, York.
Robert Hudson, York.
John Meek, York.
Thomas Norcliffe, Langton Hall, Malton. George Palmes, Naburn Hall, York. William Short, York.
Nathan Turner, York.
John Westland, York.
Henry Redhead Yorke, M. P. Haton Square, London.
HONORARY MEMBERS
ELECTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, 1845.
William Lucas, The Mills, Sheffield.
Very Rev. George Peacock, Dean of Ely, F.R.S., F.G.S., President of the British Association.
The Earl of Rosse, F.R.S., M.R.I.A., Birr Castle, Ireland.
Lieut. Colonel Edward Sabine, R. A., F.R.S., Woolwich.
FOREIGN HONORARY MEMBERS.
Justus Liebig, M. D., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Giessen.
Carlo Matteucci, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Pisa.
RESOLUTIONS
PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEBRUARY 4, 1845.
1. That the Report of the Council be adopted, and printed for the use of the Members.
2. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Vice-Presidents and Members of the Council retiring from office.
3. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Treasurer and Secretary for their valuable services.
4, That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Curators, for their diligent and useful services in the several departments of the Museum.
5. That the Council be empowered, on certain days to be selected by them, during the present year, to permit free admission to the Museum and Gardens to all persons ; the mode of admission to be regulated by the Council.
6. That the Council be empowered to admit Strangers by the purchase of Tickets during the present year.
”,. That the Council be authorized to admit to the Museum and Gardens, as Temporary Subscribers, any occasional visitors to York, not residing in the County, at the rate of One Pound for four months for themselves and their families; but that in no ease shall such privilege be granted for a longer period than twelve months.
8. That the Resolution of the last Annual Meeting, empowering the Council to authorize the holding one or more Horticultural Meetings in the Society’s Gardens, be continued in force during the. present year.
DONATIONS
TO
THE SOCIETYS MUSEUM.
GEOLOGY.
G. C. Atkinson, Esq. ....... Piece of Skiddaw Slate; containing a curious organic impression.
Edward Barton, Esq. ....... A remarkably beautiful example of Psam- mobhia levigata, and Pecten inequicos- tatus, from the Malton Oolite.
Rey. J. Blackburn .......... Fossils and specimens .of rocks, from the
_ Holy Land. Joseph Clarke, Esq. (Cin- Two teeth of Mastodon giganteus, and a cinnati ) collection of Silurian fossils, from the neighbourhood of Cincinnati. Dr. Edward Clark ......... Voluta Lamberti, from the Suffolk coast.
i. J. Copsie, Esq. .......... Astacus scabrosus from Malton, Septaria from Norfolk, and various other fossils.
Mr. Isaiah Deck .......+.. -- Fossils from the Coralline Crag of Suffolk, ( and casts of unique or rare fossils. Dr. Falconer ......cccccceve Episternum of the Gigantic fossil Tortoise
(Colossochelys Atlas) from the Siwallic Hills in Northern India.
Wa. Gray, jun. Esq. ...... A valuable series of fossils from the Corn- brash and inferior Oolite of the York- shire coast.
George Hudson, Esq. ....... Specimens of fossil Fishes of the genera Paleoniscus and Platysomus, from the
Magnesian Limestone near Ferrybridge.
Samuel Hailstone, Esq. .... A large fossil stem from the Coal at Wigan.
Thos. Meynell, jun. Esq. Pachyodon lanceolatus, and various other fossils from the coast.
Rey, F. O, Morris. ..ssssacss Specimens of ores, and miscellaneous fossils.
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Late Rev. C. Payton ...... Several interesting fossils from the Dudley Limestone. Miss Phillips ........0s0000 A large series of Silurian Fossils from the
neighbourhood of Great Malvern.
Henry Pickering, Esq. ... Several choice fossils from the Oolite of Malton.
Lord Prudhoe .......s.seees A very interesting series of specimens of Stigmaria ficoides, from the Coal-mea- sure Sandstone, between Richmond and Barnard Castle.
B. 8. Sawden, Esq. ......... Sponges and other fossils from the Chalk at Bridlington.
Joseph Spence, Esq. ........ ‘Two specimens of Stigmaria ficoides.
William Start, Esq. ...... Some choice fossils from the Coralline Crag.
Mrs. Thackeray ............ Fossil tree in sandstone, found near Har- rogate.
Chas. Thiselton, jun. Esq, A new fossil Astarte from the Bridlington Tertiary deposit.
MINERALOGY.
Executor of the late W m> An extensive and valuable series of Mi- Hatfeild, Esq. nerals, collected by Mr. Hatfeild, in js Yorkshire, Cumberland and Durham.
ZOOLOGY.
VERTEBRATA.
His Grace the Archbishop } White variety of the common partridge.
of York Thomas Allis, Esq.......... 29 Skeletons of Foreign Mammalia. S. Barber, Esq. ...-s.-0+e0e Specimen of the water rail. Henry Anderson, Esq. ... Ditto. Mr. H. Baines ........ccseces Yellow-Hammer with deformed beak, and
Tree Sparrow. Rey. Thos. Egerton.......... Skeleton of the common fox; and young alligator, stuffed.
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Sir John Franklin ......... 80 Bird skins, from Van Dieman’s Land. John Gould, Esq....,.....++ 100 ditto, from Australia.
Lieut. Col. Hildyard ...... Curious variety of the common grouse. Mr. Hammond, Hull ....... Skeleton of the polar bear.
Richard Ingram, Esq. ... 9 Bird skins, from Van Dieman’s Land. T. Meynell, jun. Esq........ His collection of Eggs of British Birds, in- cluding 210 species, and 460 specimens, W. Rudston Read, Esq..... 11 Bird skins, from the Eastern Islands of Australia; a large shrike, and pied variety of the common reed-bunting. Lieut. Rhodes, (68th Light Acollection of Fishes from the West In- Infantry ) dies, in a very unusual state of preser- vation, including the genera ostracion, platax, monocanthus, balistes, and many others, with several interesting crustacea. T. Rudd, Esq. «........0 .-. Specimen of the Argentine, (Scopelus Humboldtii) and of the Tadpole-fish (Raniceps trifurcatus) one of the rarest British species. Messrs. J. H. & W. Tuke Lesser black-backed gull (larus fuscus) in winter plumage; black-headed gull (larus ridibundus) ditto; and stormy petrel (thalassidroma pelagica. ) John Wilson, Esq. ......... Flying-fish.
MOLLUSCA AND ZOOPHYTA.
Rev. J. Blackburn ......... Specimens shewing the shell of the paper nautilus, (argonauta argo) in various stages of growth.
Joseph Clarke, Esq. ...... A collection of uniones, from the United States.
Mr. Chas. Peach ............. Cornish Zoophytes, to fill up desiderata in the collection of British species.
Mr. H. Stutchbury ......... 3 Specimens of melo indica.
William Reed, Esq. ....... Specimen of Spondylus regius.
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BOTANY. Joseph Clarke, Esq. ........ Dried Plants from Cincinnati. Mrs. Davies Gilbert......... Plant of wheat from her own garden, bearing 145 stems. Ear] Fitzwilliam ............ 36 Specimens of different kinds of woods. Miss Wickham ............ Specimens of Swiss Plants.
FOR THE GARDEN.
James Yates, Esq. ......-.. Collection of Abyssinian Seeds. Lieut. Wake ......crereececes Collection of East Indian Seeds.
ANTIQUITIES.
Deposited in the Museum, Mithraic Tablet, found in Micklegate, by the Dean and Chap-} York, 1747. (See Wellbeloved’s Ebu-
ter of York racum, plate ix, and pages 79—85.) Her Grace the Dowager \ A Celt. Duchess of Leeds
Miss Norcliffe.....+++++++... Ancient Marbles from Rome, and Anti- quities from Herculaneum.
H. Robinson, Esq. .. ...... Roman Pottery, and Red Samian Ware, dug up at Burton Stone, Clifton.
John Wilson, Esq. ......... An ancient Spur.
COINS AND MEDALS.
Rev. A. Cumby .«...+...6 Denarius of Hadrian, found near Cat- terick.
F. J. Copsie, Esq. ......... 16 Stycas, found in St. Leonard’s Place. _
Hon. Wm. Stourton ...... A Jewish Medal, and 4 Brass Coins.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
John Camidge, jun., Esq. Model of a Cromlech.
Wm. Earl, Esq. ............. An Indian Hammock. Executors of Dr. Beckwith A Florentine Mosaic. Rev. Wm. Taylor .......... An instrument invented by the late Sir J.
Robison, to increase the brilliancy and perfect combustion of Coal gas. Messrs. J. H. & W. Tuke Systematic Catalogue of British land and (the compilers _) freshwater shells, for labelling collec- tions. Thomas Wilkinson, Esq. Pair of richly ornamented foreign slippers.
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
J. Allies, Esq. (the Author) Two Papers published in the Archeologia, on some Antiquities discovered near - Scarborough. British Association for the \ Report for 1843. Advancement of Science Birmingham Phil. Society Report for 1843. Executors of Dr. Beckwith Annals of Philosophy, 10 vols. Jameson’s System of Mineralogy, 3 vols. Kirwan’s Mineralogy, 2 vols. Accum’s Mineralogy, 2 vols. Jameson’s Geognosy. Jeffries on Diamonds and Pearls, &e. &c. Cambridge Phil. Society... Transactions, Vol. viii, Part 1. E. Charlesworth, Esq. ... Yarrell on the growth of Salmon in fresh water (with coloured illustrations. ) Magazine of Zoology and Botany, con- ducted by Sir Wm. Jardine and others, 2 vols. Magazine of Natural History, conducted by J. C. Loudon, 9 vols. Magazine of Natural History, (New Series) conducted by E. Charlesworth, 4 vols.
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Dr. Cullen (the Author) .. Dr. Daubeny (the Author)
Geological Society, London
Richard Griffith, Esq. (the Author)
Dr. R. King (the Author )
Dr, Laycock
Leeds Phil. and Lit. Society Dr. Morris (the Author)
Prof. Phillips (the Author) Royal Society, Edinburgh Society of Arts .......seseeeee J. Yates, Esq. (the Author)
Zoological Society, London
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
Tables of the Climate of Sidmouth.
A Lecture on Institutions for the better education of the farming classes.
Supplement to the Introduction to the Atomic Theory.
Sketch of the writings and character of Decandolle.
Proceedings, Part xcviii.
Synopsis of the Carboniferous Fossils of Ireland, (with numerous plates.)
Address to the Ethnological Society of London.
Report of the Health of Towns Commis- sion, 2 vols.
Report for 1843.
On the Construction of Hospitals for the Insane. "
Memoir of William Smith, L.L.D.
Transactions, Vol. xv. part iv.
Transactions, Vol. liy.
Textrinum Antiquorum, an Account of the Art of Weaving among the Ancients.
Proceedings for 1843.
WORKS PURCHASED FOR THE LIBRARY.
Agassiz, Poissons Fossiles, completion of the Work ; and Supplement,
(in continuation. )
Gould's Birds of Australia, 17 numbers, (in continuation.) Gray’s Genera of Birds, with Illustrations by Mitchell, (in conti-
nuation.)
Sowerby’s (G. B.) Thesaurus Conchyliorum, (in continuation.) Sowerby’s (J. E.) Mineral Conchology of Great Britain, (in conti.
nuation. )
Thorpe and Handley’s Manual of British Marine Shells.
R. Sunter, 23, Stonegate, York.
MONTHLY MEETINGS IN 1845—1846.
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Annvuat Meretine, Fepruary 5, 1846.
RULES OF ADMISSION
TO THE MUSEUM AND GARDENS.
I. Members of the Society, and (Contributors of £15. and upwards to the Building Fund,) have the privilege of personal admission, and of PERSONALLY INTRODUCING Visitors to the Museum and Gardens, at all times when they are open.
Il. Members (and Contributors of £59.) have the further privilege of giving to Visitors Written Orpers of admission, which must be signed with.the name of the Member or Contributor, and bear the name of each Person to be ad- mitted. Such written orders are received at the Lodge every day (Sunday ex- cepted) between the hours of Ten a, mw. and Four p. m. and must be lefé with the Lodge-Keeper. N. B. He is forbidden to accept money from Visitors.
III. Laptes who are admitted by the Council as Annual Subscribers of £1. ‘(or who have contributed £10. or upwards to the Building Fund,) have the privilege of personal admission, and of perso ALLY introducing LADIES as occa- sional Visitors.
IV. Srrancers may obtain (at Mr. Chapman’s Coney-Street, at Mrs. Wilson’s Lendal, near the Museum Gate, at Mr. Burdekin’s High-Ousegate, and at Mr. Linney’s, Low-Ousegate,) Apmission Tickers, price One Shilling for each person ; which will entitle them to admittance at all times when the Museum and Gardens are respectively open (Sundays excepted). The Tickets must be left at the Lodge. Ae os
V. The aduit inmates of the Famriy of a Member (or a Contributor of £50.) have the privilege of personal admission whenever the Museum and Gardens are open.
VI. Members and others entitled to personal admission, may obtain a KEY of the Private Entrance to the Garden, on application to Mr. Baines at the Museum, and payment of Five Shillings for the Current year ; such payment to be due annually in advance on the Ist of January, while the key is retained.
VII. Curtpren are not to be left in the Garden, except under the care of their Parents, or other responsible person.
VIII. The Gardens are open daily till dusk. On Sundays there is no ad- mission between the hours of Ten and Twelve. The MusEvum is open daily (except Sunday) from Ten a. m. till Four p. m.
IX. The Sub-Curator, Mr. Baines, is fully empowered by the Council to see these regulations enforeed, and to prevent injury to:the Museum, Gardens, Abbey Walls, and antiquarian monuments,
Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
ANNUAL REPORT
FOR
MDCCCXLYV.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE COUNCIL
YORKSHIRE
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
FOR
MDCCCXLV
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
FEBRUARY 3, 1846.
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R. BURDEKIN, 16, HIGH-OUSEGATE.
1846,
TRUSTEES
OF
THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT.
*
EDWARD, LORD ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. GEORGE, EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G.
CHARLES WILLIAM, EARL FITZ WILLIAM. THOMAS PHILIP, EARL DE GREY.
HON. av» VERY REV. HENRY HOWARD, D.D. SIR WILLIAM LAWSON, BART., F.S.A. : FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ., F.S.A.
ROBERT DENISON, ESQ.
REV. WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S. RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
PATRONESSES
OF THE
Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. H. R. H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT.
PATRONS.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F-.R.S.
EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F-.R:5.
THE VISCOUNT MORPETH.
THE LORD STOURTON.
THE LORD FEVERSHAM.
THE LORD WENLOCK.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1846.
PRESIDENT :
Eary Firzwituiam, F.R.S.
VICE-PRESIDENTS:
Witiiam Gray, F.G.S.
Rev. Wm. Vernon Harcourt, F.RS. Georce Hopson, M.P.
Sir J. V. B. Jounstone, Barr., M.P., F.G.S. Sir. J. H. Lowruer, Barrt., M.P. Proressor Puittiipes, F.R.S.
Rev. Coartes WELLBELOVED.
TREASURER: Rosert Davies, F.S.A.
COUNCIL:
Elected 1843....Rev. Joun Kenrick. Elected 1844... .Rev. R. B. Cooke, : Grorce Gotpiez, M.D. Tuomas Henry Travis. Elected 1845....THomas ALLis, Favit James Copsie, W. L. Newman, F.R.A.S. Elected 1846.... Henry Netson Cuampney, | Joun Forp, JosHuA OLDFIELD, Joun Prest, Epwin Situ.
SECRETARY:
Tuomas Meyne tt, Jun,, F.LS. A 2
a ig ee aS
6 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM:
Epwarp CHar.esworts, E.G.S.
HONORARY CURATORS:
ANTIQUTIES ......6..@0% Rev. C.. WELLBELOVED. BOtamy 6. 24. 205 4i > naps Oswautp Auuen Moore. Comparative ANATomy.. Tuomas AULLis. LABORATORY: 26.45 ‘.... T. Hs Barker.
PAOGAB ET 0. cv creases Gerorce Gotpie, M.D. METEOROLOGY .......... Joun Forp. OBSERVATORY 06455 secs W. L. Newman, F.R.A.S.
SUB-CURATOR:
Henry. Baines.
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
TO THE
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, ON THE 3rd OF FEBRUARY, 1846.
s
The Members of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society will expect to hear, on the present occasion, a Report of the completion of considerable works undertaken for the benefit of the Institution ; they will ask at what cost the improvements so. long desired in the Museum Grounds have been at last accomplished ; they will enquire what has been gained by providing additional scientific assistance in the Museum, and whether any further plans are in. progress which may raise yet higher the Character of the Institution, and place it in its right and permanent position.
It is the duty of the Council to meet these expectations. They do so with great satisfaction; believing that the large expenditure, for which they have to account, has been well laid out and will be well repaid; that the Society’s finances, far from being crippled by this great outlay, are adequate to bear the charge of a further effort for enlarging the Grounds and augmenting the Antiquarian. Treasures ; and that while the Museum, which is the centre and mainspring of our efforts, has received its due share of attention, the officers of the establishment have been placed in a state of greater comfort and efficiency.
The Museum Gardens now occupy the most considerable portion of the space included between the City Rampart, and the defensive walls of St. Mary’s Abbey; a space full of incentives to piety and learning,—rich in the monuments of art and time,—no longer exposed to ravage and neglect, but permanently secured for useful studies and rational gratifications. To adorn this ground, to arrange in it walks and plantations suitable to the noble and thought- inspiring edifices which it supports, was the task which the Council entrusted to Sir John Nasmyth, and they have the satisfaction to report that it has been well and carefully executed. The grounds as
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now laid out, not only relieve and harmonize in pictorial effect with the antique walls and buildings immediately around, but offer pleasing views of more distant objects, and minister in a high degree to the gratification of the Members. :
As guardians of St. Mary’s Abbey we may regret that portions of the demesne, and even parts of the church, are still beyond the boundaries of the Society, and inaccessible to its thousands of Visitors ; but as Citizens of York we must rejoice that so much has been saved which once appeared destined to destruction, and avail ourselves of every occasion for appealing to that public spirit which now happily animates our Municipal Authorities, in favour of the monuments of ancient York.
That such appeals in suitable cases will not be fruitless, the Council have a most gratifying proof in the consent of the Cor- poration to place in the possesion of the Society what remains of the Hospital of St. Leonard, with so much of the area surrounding this building and adjoining the Roman wall, as will allow of their being freed from many incumbrances and examined with convenience and advantage. In considering this question, the Lord Mayor and the Members of the City Council evinced the most earnest desire to forward a measure so acceptable to the lovers of Antiquity. And the Society will be enabled by their friendly co-operation‘to offer to the Members of the Archeological Institute, when they assemble in York, a most characteristic welcome, amidst Roman Towers and Medizval Abbeys, the preservation of which is the pledge of our own duration.
For this important addition to the possessions of the Society, the small rent now paid to the Corporation is to be augmented to £20: the expenses of the requisite alterations to be defrayed by the Society. The objects which now deform the remains of St. Leonard’s Hospital must be removed, a new fence-wall constructed, the ground excavated and planted, the Lodge rebuilt in a more convenient site. The expense of these alterations cannot now be estimated minutely : they will not however be too great for the important object in view, and not too great for the Society to appropriate. In employing for this purpose a portion of the Beckwith Legacy, the Council confidently believe the Society will be acting in the spirit and in conformity with the intention of the donor: they believe the addition of the Arches of St. Leonard’s to the attractions of the Museum grourids
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will advance the objects, and not be injurious to the finances of the Institution, which, supported by the force of enlightened public favour, may count upon an increase of contributors commensurate with the augmented advantages which it offers. The payment of rent to the Corporation is fully jnstified by these considerations. The Council are-prepared to advise that no delay should be allowed in the execution of this work; the preliminary steps, so far as they depend on the Corporation have been taken, the greater part of the premises are unoccupied, and it is desirable to have the new Lodge and the new Boundary completed before the summer, when, besides the usual great influx of visitors, we may expect the arrival of the numerous Members of the Archzological Institute. :
_ Before passing from the subjects connected with the improvement of the grounds, the Council. must report to the Society an arrangement of considerable importance which they have been enabled to effect, whereby the controul of a portion of the Manor Shore property which was let on a long lease, has been recovered. They have repurchased for the Society, the lease of the Swimming Bath, with all its constructions, at the cost of £1475. By this arrangement the plans of Sir John Nasmyth, for the ornamental works in the Garden have been much facilitated; an objectionable entrance to the Museum Grounds has been closed; while the Baths have been rendered more accessible, and capable of receiving any further extension which may be deemed advisable hereafter. This has been moreover far from an unprofitable investment. After paying all regular expenses of the Bath and the cost of some indispensable repairs, there remains, for the credit of the Society, on the Annual Account, the sum of £60. 10s. 11d. being equal to 4 per cent on the purchase money.
Serious apprehensions bawvinis been for sometime felt as to the safety of some parts of the ruins-of St. Mary’s Abbey—which the Society is bound to keep in as good a state as possible, the Curator of Antiquities received authority from the Council to take such steps as might appear necessary to repair and sustain them. He was fortunate in obtaining the advice of Mr. Smirke, and it is hoped that these venerable remains are not only improved in their appearance, but strengthened to resist the attacks of time for a long series of years. It may deserve attention whether something further may not be attempted toward securing, and in part replacing, the beautiful Norman piers and arches at the entrance of the Chapter House.
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The House designed for the Sub-curator, is finished, lighted with Gas, and occupied by that valuable officer. The whole of the lower floor of the Museum thus becomes available for the Laboratory and collections, and the Council recommend that immediate steps be taken for rendering these extensive rooms practically useful.
The condition of the Museum is satisfactory, the principal rooms, now extremely well warmed by Hot Water-pipes, are suitable for study at all seasons of the year. The collections are increased and, what is of more consequence, the progress of order is observable amongst them,
Under the direction of the Secretary, the foreign Birds have been remounted by Mr. Baines, after having been carefully examined, discriminated, and catalogued by a highly competent authority—Mr. Gould. The Society is thus put in possession of a nearly. perfect catalogue of the Ornithological collection, embracing more than a thousand species. A duplicate copy of the catalogue has been prepared, and the labelling of the Specimens will be proceeded with forthwith. —
The collection of British Shells has ieee revised by the Keeper of the Museum, who has commenced the enlargement of this at present very limited series.
The Society is indebted to Edward Hailstone, Esq. for a very choice collection of Sponges and Corallines* and to the Rev. John Blackburn for two excellent examples of the Animal which inhabits the Paper Nautilus Shell.
The Stormy Petrel, has been added to the Allis collection of Bird’s Skeletons, and the bones of the Polar Bear, Civet Cat and Serval have been mounted and placed with the other osteological treasures. Thus the Zoological collections, taken in general, are undergoing improvement in completeness and in classification.
No very important addition has been made to the Minerals, but the Geological department of the Museum, by donation and purchase, has been considerable increased. The Rev. A. Griesbach’s collection, purchased by the Council, has yjelded some unique and many very valuable specimens from Malton and Westow; inte- resting Fishes, a rare Pentacrinite, and a remarkable series of Ophiuride, have been obtained by purchase from the Lias ‘and
* Collected by his late brother Samuel Hailstone, Esq., to whose labours the Society owes its peautiful series of British Crustacea.
COUNCIL For 1845. ‘U
Marlstone of the Yorkshire Coast., The Council have requested the Keeper of the Museum, to watch the progress of the Railway excava- tion near Bridlington, with a view to complete the History of the interesting Tertiary deposit there, the fossils of which may now be seen in the same case with the congenerous remains of the Suffolk Crag. From beyond the limits of Yorkshire we have received a specimen of part of the head of an undescribed genus of quadrupeds, (allied to Hyracotherium,) from Herne Bay, presented by Wm. Richardson, Esq., and a great number of contributions from the Mountain Lime- stone, Kimmeridge Clay, Chalk, London Clay, and the Tertiary beds of the Isle of Wight. These contributions, filling fifty drawers, have been obtained by a system of exchanges, which Mr. Charlesworth has brought into action, and which he has supported chiefly by the liberal appropriation of his own large series of duplicate Crag fossils, for the Society’s collection yields in fact very few duplicates even from Malton, Whitby, Speeton, or Flamborough. Another service which Mr. Charlesworth has rendered to the Society, and to Geolo- gists in general, is the compilation of an extensive catalogue of British fossils and the preparation of it for the press in a form adapted to the labelling of collections. The first part of this catalogue, embracing the fossils of the tertiary formations, is nearly ready for publication.
During the past year some interesting additions have been made to the Flora of Yorkshire,* and the zealous Curator of Botany ex- presses his expectation of seeing the Herbarium (now conveniently arranged for study,) much enlarged in respect of the rarer species. He has drawn the attention of the Council to the insufficiency of the Botanical part of the library, a defect certainly not confined to that department of Natural History. Nor is the Antiquarian part of the Library more complete. The Society has indeed received many donations of valuable books; it has purchased some of a beautiful and costly character; it subscribes annually for a few ~ periodical works ; its shelves are full, but not so well filled as to attract many readers to the Library. The Council are satisfied that these evils may be remedied: they have resolved to render the Library more conveniently accessible, by stationing in the room for certain hours daily, a person to act as clerk, and register the issue and replacement of books, and they will direct immediate attention to the completion of the catalogue.
*See List of Papers read to the Society.
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Through the liberality of R. Nicholson, Esq., a valuable painting by Van Hurpe, has been presented to the Society, and placed in the Library.
In the early part of the year, the workmen employed in taking down the house at the corner of Jubbergate and Coney-Street, discovered below the floor of the cellar, a large deposit of silver coins, which were however unfortunately very widely dispersed be- fore the discovery was made known to the Curator of that de- partment. Owing to this speedy dispersion, the extent of the hoard has not been ascertained ; there appears however reason to conclude from subsequent inquiries, that the number of coins could not have been less than five or six hundred. All that have since been col-
‘
lected and examined, have proved to be pennies of William the first,
with one or two of Edward the Confessor, and all of the same type; the reverse of the Conqueror’s coins, agreeing with that of Edward. A small number was, soon after the discovery, presented by the Curator to the Museum, and more have since been received from Robert Davies Esq., the Treasurer. It is remarkable that the first great discovery of coins of William the first was made about a century ago, in York, and not far from the spot in which this last hoard was found. |
The Society is much indebted to Richard Jennings Esq., of Driffield, for several interesting articles recently found in a tumulus situated in a field belonging to that gentleman, and which seems to have formed the grave of several ancient warriors, either Roman—British, or Anglo-Saxon. The articles are chiefly fragments of armour, fibule and clasps of various patterns, and other ornaments of dress.
A large and curious collection of Celts, accidentally discovered a little below the surface of the ground adjoining the church Yard at Westow, has been added by purchase to the Museum. The pe- culiar interest of this collection arises partly from its extent, the number of Celts amounting to more than fifty, but still more from the variety of size and shape in these not uncommon relics of ancient times ; and from the occurrence of googes and chisels amongst them, formed of the same material, and justifying the opinion which An- tiquaries of late have adopted.—that Celts were not, as was formerly supposed, exclusively instruments of war, but implements of the artisan or the husbandman, perhaps of both.
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Several additions have been likewise made to the coins in the Roman series.
The Laboratory is in the usual working condition, and the Council have still continued to the School of Medicine the use of it for their regular courses of Chemical Lectures. The Curator desires an en- largement of the space allotted to the preparations, on the ground that further classification is necessary, and that injury is sustained for the want of it.
The Observatory is in work, and the Curator has employed the new instruments which the Society has provided, as much as their yet incomplete state allows. This imperfection should be remedied without delay.
The Meteorological observations made by. Mr. Ford, the Curator of that department, appear in the following tables.
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER—YORK, 1845.
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Imo, 29°84/30°32} 43°2|33-7|38°5|53)14// 12 | 16 [Southerly
2nd (29°99)30°45 8}26°3 32°5)48/18]/ 25 | 5 |N. West
8rd |30°50/30°50 43°5|28°6'36°1/59/15)]| 22 | 13 |Northern
4th |29°91/30°54 11 |Northern
Sth 29°93/30°44 19 |Northern 6th |29-94/30°45 7th |29:94'30°30 8th |29°89)30°47 9th syd
10th |30-00)30°55
13 | Western
7
0 69-4|49°5|59°4/83/42)| O | 15 | Western
0
0
18 IN. West
60-2/43-9|52°0/70|30]} 1 | 10 IN. East 55°6|41°6)48'6 62/28|| 3 | 16 |Western
30°44
11th’ |29°71)30°44 12th '29°73)30°54
se 57/28)| 9 | 15 |Southern
44°6|32-2\38°4/55/23]| 21 | 17 | Western
Mean) s- \Total EMIS ES Mae height} 29°90 "Rain } 29°67 “Temp. | 46°6 100 168
COMPARATIVE PREVALENCE OF WINDS. N' S E W NE SE NE NW 37 43 9 80 46 53 39 58
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OSCILLATION. OF THE MERCURIAL COLUMN.
Mean height at nine, A.M. ......se00..5 29°9140 three, PM, ceeds e eee 29-9037 Mean daily depression at three, P.M..... 0103 9100 Mean height for the year+............. 29
The temperature of the Year 1845 was 1°1 degree below the mean temperature of York, on an average of 13 years, and ‘8 degree below that of 1844. The rain of 1845 amounted to 29°67 inches being 5y% inches above the annual average, and 10 inches above the amount of 1844. More than 3 of this fell in the 8th month.
We have received information of the rain fallen in 1845 from the following localities. —
Ackworth...... jog we 27.08 in. _ Huggate on the Wolds .. 34.75 Donviaster. eo. 8. eke 59.00 TORUS). sis ie SG Rbole we 25.58 Kirby-Moorside ........ 38.14
. Numerous applications having been made in a previous year for a relaxation of the terms of admission to the Gardens and Museum, to large parties who visit York during the Summer by excursion trains on the Railways, the Council thought they would be meeting the wishes of those parties, as well as acting with that liberal spirit which has always characterised the Society, by adopting a regulation which enables persons so situated to have access to the Gardens and Museum on very moderate terms. They are happy to state that the course taken by the Council has given general satisfaction, and that between two or three thousand persons have availed themselves of the privilege thus afforded them of examining the numerous objects of interest now under your care, whilst it has at the same time tended to swell the amount received for admissions to a larger sum than has been re- ceived in any one previous year. _
COUNCIL For 1845, 15
The Council have likewise thought it advisable to make an alteration in the mode of payment for admission, and instead of issuing tickets as heretofore, to receive the money at the gates, whereby much inconvenience to strangers is obviated.
In accordance with the resolution of the last Annual Meeting, the Council appointed a committee of the Society to make the necessary arrangements for’ the Horticultural Exhibition to be held in the Society’s grounds. The Exhibition took place in August, and it is a subject of regret, that whilst the display was more splendid than on any former occasion, the receipts, owing to the very unfavourable state of the weather, were insufficient to meet the necessary expences thereof. The Council however are in nowise intimidated at the large amount of the deficiency, and feel assured that the Meeting will © sanction a similar course to be pursued in the present year, satisfied that the great encouragement given to Horticulture thereby, and the increasing interest shown in the Exhibition, will, under ordinary cir- cumstances, amply repay the Society for any loss they may have sustained.
In looking at the Treasurer’s account which is appended, the Members will perceive how advantageous in all respects are the ar- rangements which the munificent Beckwith Legacy has rendered possible. It has relieved our Mortgages, repurchased our Land, built our Subcurafor’s house, ornamented our grounds, and allowed of the addition of an able officer to our Museum Establishment, and is yet capable of supplying means for the last great operation which the Council reccommend, viz.; the enclosure of St. Leonard’s Hospital. May this work be happily completed, and be followed by many stre- nuous efforts to preserve for the future the memorials of the past; efforts nowhere more likely to be supported, nowhere more likely to yield valuable fruits, than in the City and County of York.
THE
TREASURER OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
IN ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1845.
Dr. 1845. Ee Bard Annual Subscriptions and Arrears 52416 2 Admission of New Members .... 110 0 0 Composition in lieu of Annual Subscriptions .....2.......... 20 0 0 Ladies’ Subscriptions and Keys of The Gates occccctecstsavsscses : G8 2.0 Tikkete |i. RB Mi Soe 1eod Rents ....40+ fs sacccdpasensesses 49 3/6 Use of Tent); sv cgeasee seerseadic (107/00 Gas for Evening Meetings ,...... 110° 0 Swimming Bath ..........06.... 8513 9 Dividends on Stock .......,..0. 126 4 8 Sale of £2000. Stock ............ 2032 6 0 Permanent Debt, viz.: Executors of the late W. Gray, Esq..... 1000 0 0 Six Members @ £50 GACD) scp lives one 300 0 0 1300 0 0 7575 1 8 4481 1 8 Balance overdrawn Messrs. Swann & Co. Dec. 31st, 1845 1843 10 3 # Audited by us, JOHN PHILLIPS, THOMAS ALLIS. £6324 11 10
Cr. 1845. Oi Moder Sede Permanent Debt, viz.:
Executors of the late _- William Gray Esq. 1000 0 0
Six Members @ £50
each ......02-.4- 300 0 1300 0 0 Balance overdrawn on
Messrs Swann and
Co. Dec. 31st, 1844.. 1221 14 1 Crown Rent ...... 1) O74 Corporation Rents .. 6 8 8 Insurance ...e.e00 5.0 0 Keeper of the Swim-
ming Bath ...... 15 0 0 GateKeeper ......... 1310 0 KeeperoftheMuseum 150 0 0 Collector ~.......6.. 10:0 0 Interest... ...cccocee , 9415.8 Sub-Curator, on Ac- ~ count of Salary,
Labour, &c. .... 548 8 3 ep iaaiie Sundry Bills: : Cluderay .......... 34 5 6 Backhouse ....... + OF 1 8 Allen,RepairstoAbbey 59 2 3 Coal Bill »,.....06.. 2112 6 BUM Vecsccaeente U0 O00 Burdekin’ *. J/s.s36.4'. 14' $*.0 J. FB. Brown ...... 1216 0 J. Pritchett.......... . 1218 0 Gas, Coke, &c, .... 2213 6 Dalton’ sian. ger Add» 0 Hartley .....45 ssdeeo 1601 6 Chapman .......... 10 0 6 J. Walker .......... 1012 0 Sundry Small Bills.. 122 5 0 Garden Alterations.. 35718 0 Sub-Curator’s House 346 6 0 Ratcliffe on Account
of Hot water Ap-
paratus ........ 130 0 0 Purchase of Swim-
ming Bath........ 1476 3 0 PurchaseofSpecimens 50 0 0 Purchase of Books .. 5418 6 HorticulturalExhibitionl06 9 0 Mr. Charlesworth's
pettyDisbursements 20 0 0 TOXOR i, cay iksaeys (A041 6
2958 15 2
£6,324 11 11
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ANALYSIS OF DISBURSMENTS. ORDINARY EXPENSES.
Rents, Rates, &c. : £.8. da. £.8. 4. Rent to the Crown ‘end sep dhe ane Danes | a Rent to the Corporation eee see Pry 6 8 8 eee AN PRROR oc O) ciel isae Sane, eis bc ca, AS IES Insurance and Water Rent dee on not 2a LO: 0 . 36 0 4 Salaries and Wages: Keeper of the Museum wl ites! ace, BOO OO Sub-Curator aed oda b ae aie t.20 100;00: 0 Servant ... aoe sea aks on eos = 2078080 Lodge Keeper ... oe eee see «- 1310 0 Keeper of the Swimming Bath ... Sie soe 15-0 0 Labourers aaa a. hae aes ye 60'S" G Collector i. a3 we: aie SR TLE Peat 5, Occasional Labourers... ape: ae .. 2214 O ; 391 12 0 Interest on Debt: Interest on £1000 A Sus Gi ae gprs (we Se Interest to Bankers for being overdrawn ean Oe tO 9415 9 Museum, Gardens, Grounds, &c. : Painting and general repairs... ‘xe «- 7614 6% Purchase and preparation of Specimens - 9711 If Observatory pay pe Ls ck om+ sued O,33310 18413 6 Library: Books and Binding: --- ‘> ehainarl ide 73 5 0 ’ Tncidentals : Printing, Advertising, and Stationery as Be Vy be) | Coals, Gas, Coke ee ety oes in ape OO Postages, Carriages, and Sundries ake bee 9S: 2
ont Pitas ai : EXTRAORDINARY EXPENSES. ¢ Alterations in Gardens &. «swe ss 793-10 05
Repairs of the Abbey -.. hice ee COMORES. S Sub-Curator’s House... iat ae ~- 26013 8 Hot Water Apparatus. .-.. ace Se .- 137.19 0
Loss by Horticultural Exhibition ae -- 106 2 0 Purchase of the Swimming Bath aa -- 1476 3 0
£3739 0 1
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RESOLUTIONS
PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
1. That the Report of the Council be adopted and printed for the use of the Members.
2, That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Vice-Presidents and Members of the Council retiring from office.
3. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Treasurer, Secretary, and Curators of the different departments of the Museum, for their valuable services.
4, That the Council be empowered, on certain days to be selected by them during the present year, to permit free admission to the Museum and Gardens to all persons; the mode of admission to be regulated by the Council.
5. That the Council be empowered to admit Strangers during the present year, at the usual rates of payment.
6. That the Council be authorized to admit to the Museum and Gardens, as temporary subscribers, any occasional visitors to York, not residing in the County, at the rate of One Pound for four months for themselves and their families; but that in no case shall such privilege be granted for a.longer period than twelve months.
7. That the Resolution of the last Annual Meeting, empowering tbe Council to authorize the holding. one or more Horticultural Meetings in the Society’s Gardens, be continued in force during the present year.
8. That the best Thanks of the Society be given to the Chairman and Committee of Management of the Horticultural Féte held in August last ; and that they be respectfully requested to continue their valuable services for the year 1846.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS
TO THE
GENERAL MEETINGS,
1845.
May 6.—Pror. Paittres—On’some Phenomena noticed during the Solar Eclipse of that Morning.
Ocr. 7.—Mr.‘ CuarLEsworra—On a Fossil from Herne Bay, . indicating the existence of a new and very remarkable genus of Quadrupeds during the deposition of the London Clay.
«« «Qn the relation existing between the Paper Nautilus Shell, and the Octopus, hitherto found occupying it, principally in - reference to some details of the habits of the animal ; communicated by the Rev. Joun Buacxsurn, of Attercliffe, Sheffield.
Nov. 4.—Rev. C. WELLBELovED—On the contents of a Tumulus near Driffield, opened by Richard Jennings, Esq.
*« «On a very curious Collection of Celts and other tools, found near the church at Westow.
Dec. 2.—Mr. O. A. Moorzr—On some additions to the Flora of Yorkshire.
Dec. 2.—Mr. Cuantesworta—On a rare and probably un- described Pentacrinite from the Marlstone of Staithes.
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DONATIONS ‘
TO THE MUSEUM.
GEOLOGY.
Capt. H. Alexander, (Zwick- ~ enham..-. :
Mr. H. Baines
Mr. Bleckley .
J: Brown, Esq. ( Stanway, , Col
chester )
Dr. Champney
E. Charlesworth, Esq.
Rev. T. Egerton
F. T. Fletcher, Esq.
Dr. Forrest, (Stirling) .
* Rev. J. Kenrick
Dr. Lee, (Hartwell, Aylesbury ) John Lister, Esq. (Doncaster )
Thos. Meynell, Jun., Esq,
John Prest, Esq. a W. Richardson, Esq. ( Bedford’ Row, London.) ...
. Mr. Swinbank... oe N. Wetherell. Esq. ( Highgate)
Some of the rarer fossils of the Suffolk Crag.
A Cidaris in flint, and a Shell of the Genus Conus ? from the Brandsby Slate.
Piece of Amber containing Insects.
Casts of fossil jaws of Rhinoceros from the Coast of Essex.
Tooth of the fossil Elephant, from the gravel of Middlethorpe.
Series of tertiary, chalk, and mountain lime-stone fossils, including about 1000 specimens.
Specimen of Ammonites giganteus, and petrified wood from the Isle of Portland.
A Nautilus, from the magnesian lime-stone at Garforth, Leeds.
Tooth of the Megalichthys Hibberti in Coal.
Specimen of Lepidodendron obovatum, from the Coal-shale.
Fossils from the Kimmeridge clay at Hartwell
Fossils from the neighbourhood of Bridlington, in- cluding an undescribed species of Scaphites from the chalk.
Radiated Zeolite, from Perthshire.
Specimen of Cannel Coal, displaying a very sin- gularly fractured surface.
Polished section of an Ammonite.
Fossils from the London clay of Herne Bay, inclu- ding part of the head of an undescribed qua. druped.
A mountain-limestone productus.
Fossils from the London elay.
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ZOOLOGY.
T. Allis, Esqe i... eae Rev. J. Blackburn, (Attercliffe,)
Hon., P. Dawnay ...
E. Hailstone, Esq. (Horton Hall, Bradford. )...
D. Russell, Esq. Chas. Thiselton, jun. Esq. Lieut. Walker
Skeleton of the stormy Petrel.
Two animals of the Paper Nautilus from Messina.
Specimen of Pinna muricata.
A fine specimen of the Peregrine Falcon, shot at Benningborough.
A valuable collection of British Sponges and Corallines, formed by the late E. Hailstone, Esq.
Specimen of the Tawny Owl.
Two foetal Sharks.
Two skins of the Scarlet Ibis.
ANTIQUITIES.
Mr. Baines — . James Barber, Esq.
James Barstow, Esq. Rev. J. Blackburn ...
W. B. Cooke, Esq... Robert Davies, Esq.
Directors of the York aifad North Midland Railway. Rev. W. Hey ..-
R. Jennings, Esq. «..
Robert Kinder, Esq. Francis Rhodes, Esq
Rev. C. Wellbeloved
5 Northumberland Stycas.
2 Roman coins, found in the excavations of the York and Scarborough Railway.
A coin of Caracalla, 2nd brass.
Figure of Osiris, from a Tomb at Saccara.
Mummy of a young Crocodile, from Egypt.
A small piece of the Tribune at Athens,
.-- , 12 Pennies of William 1. found in the excavation
for a house at the corner of Jubbergate ; a York halfpenny, 1666 ; 25 Roman and other coins, in brass, various sizes,
4 Roman Urns and a Roman Bottle, from the
excavations on the Scarbro’ line.
Fragment of a supposed Roman Altar, from
Derbyshire.
The Boss of an Ancient Shield and various
' other articles, from a tumulus near Driffield.
Silver Medal of Charles 1.
3 Roman Silver coins, found in a barrow near Andover, Wilts.
A Howden halfpenny, of 1668; one of York, 1666 ; a Shilling of George Ist, made from the silver of the South Sea Company ; 10 pennies of William Ist; one of Edwardthe Confessor, found in Jubbergate.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
‘Rey. John Blackburn .. .... Two Cuirasses from the Field of Waterloo ; a Tomahawk from New Zealand; Fibre of é the Cotton Tree, from Egypt ; Reeds employed in the construction of the gigantic mounds of Ancient Sais.
Mr. Bleckley ... ... ..» . «+ A Relic from the Field of Waterloo. F. J, Copsie, Esq. ... ... .... Manna, from Nineveh. Charles Etty, Esq., (Java.) ... Impression of the sole of the foot of a native of
the Island of Java, presenting a singular instance of Monstrosity.
Mr. Jackson .... ... ... «+ . 8 Medals of the late Princess Charlotte, of Wales.
Mr. J. Mc Kenna, ..._ ..._... A silver Temperance Ticket, bearing date 1718, found at Cambridge.
R. Nicholson Esq. .... ... --- A valuable Painting by Van Hurp.
C. R. Smith, Esq. .... ... Medal struck in commemoration of the Second
Annual Congress of the British Archeological Association.
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
J. S. Bowerbank, Esq., (the Observations on the structure of the shells
Author) eosvih oe aoncdivt- of Molluscous and Conchiferous Animals.- W. Gray, Esq. t+ ae eee A Geological Work by Dr. Forchammer, in Danish ; and a Guide to the curious who visit the Waters of Spa.
John Hogg, Esq., (the Author) A Catalogue of Birds, observed in S. Eastern Durham, and in N, WeStern Cleveland. W. J. Henwood, Esq. (ihe On the Metalliferous deposits of Cornwall, and Authors) ) (se see see cate Devon, forming Vol. 5th of the Transactions of the Geological Society of Cornwall.
M. Quetelet... «-- +." +. Summary of Magnetic and Meteorological Ob- servations, made at fixed periods; (from the 18th Vol, of the Memoirs of the Academy of Brussels.
Dr. Laycock, (the Author.) ... On the Reflex function of the Brain.
+ Second Report of the Commissioners for in- quiring into the state of large towns and populous districts.
J. E. Lee, Esq. (the Author) Delineations of Roman Antiquities found at Caerleon and the Neighbourhood.
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 23
Mr: J. Me Kenna ...
Enquiries touching the diversity of Languages and Religions, through the chief parts of the World, published 1635.
E. Newman, Esq., (the Author) The System of Nature.
Duke of Northumberland.
Account of the Northumberland Equatorial and Dome attached to the Cambridge Observatory, by G. B. Airy, Esq., Astronomer Royal,
Mr. W. Armstrong, (the Author) An account of tapping and closing a hot spring
John Phillips, Esq....
at Bath. Sundry Pamphlets,
Madame Eivmrer Cane Sushoross) A General Guide through Sicily, embracing its
Natural History. (Guida della Sicilia.)
Rey. W. Walker, (the Author) An account of the village of Slingsby.
FROM PUBLIC BODIES.
‘The Admiralty
_ Arts, Society of British Association ...
British Museum Trustees
Brussels Academy ..-
4
Cornwall Polytechnic Society...
Edinburgh Royal Society Paris Academy of Science Geological Society ... Royal Society ...
Astronomical Observations made in the year 1834 at the Cape of Good Hope.
Transactions., Vol. 55.
Report of the Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1844.
Scientific Catalogues of the various departments in the Natural History Collection of the British Museum.
Bulletin of the Royal Academy of Brussels, 18434; Instructions for the Registry of Periodic Phenomena.
Annual Report for 1843.
Transactions, Vol. 16, Part 1; Vol. 17, Part 1.
Weekly Journal from Jan. to July, 1844,
Proceedings of, for 1844—35.
Proceedings.
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WORKS PURCHASED.
Conchologist’s Nomenclator, by Agnes Catlow and Lovell Reeve. "”
Gould’s Birds of Australia, (in continuation.)
Gray’s Genera of Birds, with Illustrations, by Mitchell, (in continuation.) Browne’s History of the Metropolitan Church of St. Peter, York, (in continuation.) Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire, by the Rev. Edward Churton, (in continuation.) Ray Society—Publications of, by Annual Subscription.
Selby’s British Birds, two Vols. folio, with Coloured Illustrations,
Sowerby’s (G. B.) Thesaurus Conchyliorum, (in continuation.)
PERIODICALS,
London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, Annals and Magazine of Natural History. The Phytologist.
R. BURDEKIN, HIGH-OUSEGATE, YORK.
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WMorkshire Philosophical Hociety.
FOR
MDCCCXLVI.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE COUNCIL
OF THE
YORKSHIRE
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
FOR
MDCCCXLVI.
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
FEBRUARY 2, 1847.
H. SOTHERAN, CONEYSTREET.
1847.
TRUSTEES
OF THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT.
EDWARD, LORD ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. GEORGE, EARL OF CARLISLE, K. G. CHARLES WILLIAM, EARL FITZWILLIAM. ‘THOMAS PHILIP, EARL DE GREY. | HON. axp VERY REV. HENRY HOWARD, D.D. SIR WILLIAM LAWSON, BART., F.S. A. FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ., F.S. A.
ROBERT DENISON, ESQ.
REV. WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S. RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
PATRONESSES
OF THE
Morkshire Philosophical Society.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. H. R. H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT.
PATRONS.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE, K. G.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S.
EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F.R.S.
THE VISCOUNT MORPETH.
THE LORD FEVERSHAM.
THE LORD WENLOCK.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1847.
PRESIDENT :
Eart Frrzwitiiam, F.R.S.
VICE-PRESIDENTS :
His Gracrk THE Duke or NorTHUMBERLAND, F.R.S. Tue Lorp Mayor or Yorx, M.P.
Srr Witri1am Lawson, Bart., F.S.A.
Rev. Witt1am Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S. - - GrorcEe Gorpiz, M.D.
Rev. Joun KEnrIcK.
Tuomas Henry TRAVIs.
Rey. CHarLes WELLBELOVED.
TREASURER :
Rosert Daviss, F.S.A.
COUNCIL :
Elected 1845....THomas ALtts. Favit James Copsir. W. L. Newman, F.R.A.S. Elected 1846, ,,.Henry Netson CHAMPNEY. JouN Forp. JosHUA OLDFIELD. JOHN PREsT. Epwin SMITH. Elected 1847. ,,..GrorcGE DopswortH. Wittiam Gray, F.G.S. Rev. Witiram Hey. Proressor Pures, F.R.S.
SECRETARY :
Tuomas MeEyneELL, Jun., F.L.S.
6 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM:
Epwarp CHARLESworRTH, F.G.S.
HONORARY CURATORS :
ANTIQUITIES o000,0+¢00++e+ REV. C. WELLBELOVED, BOTANY .... aq + eueuat a OswaLtp ALLEN Moors, CoMPARATIVE ANATOMY ..., THomAs ALLIS. EABORATORY, 5 \0:0'0 5.60 0s 60.8: As) Ser
ETABART Syl cheers ote een GxrorGE Gotpiz, M.D. METEOROLOGY ......0 i ese JOHN. Forp. CISRRBUATORY, . .&\. oc.o oscis « W. L. Newnan, F.R.A.S,
SUB-CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM & GARDENS;
Henry Barnes.
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
TO THE
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, ON THE 2xp OF FEBRUARY, 1847.
Ar the last Annual Meeting, the Council reported the comple- tion of several important and long-desired improvements, which Dr. Beckwith’s munificent bequest had enabled the Society to effect; including the extension and embellishment of the Gardens, the repairs of St. Mary’s Abbey, the erection of the Sub-Curator’s "House, the purchase of the Swimming Bath, and the warming of the Museum. It was also announced that the Corporation of the City of York had consented to place in the possession of the Society the remains of the Hospital of St. Leonard, with so much of the area surrounding them, and adjoining the Roman Wall, as would allow of their being freed from many incumbrances, and examined with conve- nience and advantage. ‘The Council have great satisfaction in stating that those incumbrances have, to a considerable extent, been removed, and thus the character of these interesting remains more clearly displayed. The clearing out of what have usually been called the “Cloisters” of St. Leonard’s, and a partial excavation of the ground immediately adjoining them, have shown, that besides the passage to which the Archway belongs, these supposed Cloisters consisted originally of five, or perhaps six aisles, one of them furnished with a fire-place. The removal of the modern erections above them has opened a large space
8 REPORT OF THE
which must originally have been a chamber or chambers of some description. But the most interesting discovery has resulted from taking down the house lately occupied by Mr. Hood. Two sides of this house had been formed of what were evidently external portions of an elegant ecclesiastical building; the removal of the house has brought to light a relic of great beauty,—the eastern gable of that building, the interior of which clearly shows that it was a chapel connected with the room or rooms above the cloisters. ‘ Here then,” the Curator of Antiquities concludes, “ we have the remains of the Infirmary of St. Leonard’s Hospital, with its chapel open to the wards, and its ambulatory capable of being warmed for the benefit of the infirm and sick. This is the place of which Sir Thomas Widdrington speaks, as cited by Drake,* ‘ where the Master of St. Leonard’s Hospital used to keep diseased people before they ‘were in some measure healed of their infirmities, for fear of infection.’ It was probably the general Infirmary of the Hos- pital, and referred to in the following ancient grant :—‘ William the Physician, son of Martyn of York, granted to St. Leonard’s Hospital, for the augmentation of one chaplain to celebrate divine service in the New Infirmary, &c.’
“ Interesting remains of another building, apparently much larger and of earlier date, have been discovered, extending from the Infirmary to the foundations of a wall belonging to the Roman Multangular Tower. They consist of three rows of pillars, (those of one row being of larger dimensions, and Norman), forming with the Roman Wall four aisles, at right angles to those of the ambulatory of the Infirmary. It is to be hoped that not many years will pass before an opportunity will be afforded of tracing these remains in another direction, so that the Curator of Antiquities may have more ample means of forming an opinion of the character and purpose of the edifice, to which these remains belonged.”
These important discoveries added greatly to the interest and admiration with which the Antiquarian remains within the Society’s grounds were viewed by the Members of the Archwo- . * Hist. of York, p. 334, 337.
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logical Institute, during their recent visit to York. It has, however, been found advisable to postpone the completion of the alterations connected with St. Leonard’s Hospital, and the entrance to the grounds, until the plans of the Corporation for the splendid improvements contemplated in the adjoining streets shall be finally and accurately defined.
The improvements on which the Corporation have resolved, and which now await the sanction of an Act of Parliament, will prove in an especial manner advantageous to the Society, by rendering the approach to the Gardens more handsome and. commodious, and the Museum more easily accessible to strangers.
The Donations to the Collection of Antiquities during the past year have not been numerous. Jor the most important of these, a small Roman Altar, dedicated to the local deity Veterinus or Veterineus, and found in a farm-house near the Roman Station Magna, on the wall of Hadrian, the Society is indebted to Edwin Smith, Esq.
But if the Antiquarian department of the Museum has not been enriched by many donations, it has received by purchase a large addition of peculiar interest,—the Collection of the remains of Roman York, formed during the course of more than twenty years, with great industry and at considerable expense, by Mr. W. Hargrove. This extensive collection con- sists chiefly of an interesting portion of a tessellated pavement, of inscribed monumental stones, earthen vessels, urns, and lachrymatories, of various shapes and sizes, of fragments of Samian ware, of vessels of glass, and of Roman coins, all found in York. In addition to these, bronzes and fragments of enamel, partly, perhaps, Roman, and partly Saxon or Medizval ; and more than 2000 Northumbrian coins or Stycas, which being added to the 1000 already in the cabinet of the Museum, it may be safely affirmed that the Society is in possession of more than half the hoard found in St. Leonard’s Place in 1842; the fourth of the great hoards of these coins (of which so much is yet to be learned) discovered in this kingdom.
The Yorkshire Philosophical Society already possessed a most interesting collection of the remains of Eburacum; and when these
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two collections shall have been combined and properly arranged, the Society will have cause to boast of a Museum of tocat Anti- quities, superior, the Curator thinks he may venture to assert, to anything that even the metropolis itself contains. Most ardently is it to be wished that all the remains of ancient times which have been found in York,—Roman, Saxon, and Medizval,—and are now in the hands of private individuals, could be restored. to this city, and deposited in the Museum, where they would be in security, and contribute to the public gratification ; and that distant collectors would not tempt those who are so frequently discovering the hidden relics of past times in this neighbour- hood, to separate them from their proper locality, where they naturally possess the highest interest.
This great increase in the Society’s Collection renders it necessary to provide a large additional space for this department. The Council have therefore determined to remove to the upper room of the Hospitium of St. Mary’s Abbey the whole of the Antiquities at present dispersed in different parts of the Museum. That building was a few years ago, to a considerable extent, placed in a state of repair, and its lower story has since been appropriated to the reception of the sculptured fragments of the Abbey and other ancient edifices in York. The upper room has more recently received additional repairs ; and, with some further outlay, the Council and the Curator of Antiquities consider it will afford the most suitable repository for a great Yorkshire Collection of Roman and Medieval Art.
The Archeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, under the presidency of Earl Fitzwilliam, assembled in. York in July last, when the Council, with the approbation of the last Annual Meeting, were happy to afford a hospitable reception to that learned body. The Museum and Gardens were thrown open to the Members of the Institute, and the use of the Theatre and Hospitium given for its sectional and general meetings. The Society was amply repaid by the gratification of welcoming within its walls many individuals distinguished both in archeo- logical and general Science, and by the interesting communi- cations brought forward at the Meeting. ‘The forthcoming
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volume of the Institute may be expected to contain much valuable information respecting Yorkshire Antiquities ; and in particular a Map of “ Roman Yorkshire,” in which Mr. Newton hopes, with the assistance of gentlemen resident in various districts of the county, to be abie to lay down a fuller and more correct delineation of the Roman Roads and Stations than has yet been given to the public. The exhibition of Antiquities constituted a very interesting and gratifying feature of the Meeting ; and * some very curious casts of Yorkshire Antiquities, which formed a portion of it, have since been presented to the Society, amongst the rest the cast of an ancient Rood from Sherburn Church, and of Norman Sculptures from Adel ; the gifts of Mr. Fowler Jones, a member of this Society, and the Rev. G. Lewthwaite, Rector of Adel.
Altogether it may be permitted to hope, that one permanent result of the visit of the Institute to York will be a fresh impulse given to the cultivation of one of the original and leading objects of this Society, the investigation of the Antiquities and Topography of Yorkshire.
The Donations to the Geological Department have, during the last year, been less numerous than usual. They include a very interesting series of Sharks’ Teeth from the Red Crag of Suffolk, contributed by Mr. Whincopp, of Woodbridge ; and a Cast of Plesiosaurus Hawkinsii, from the original specimen in the British Museum, presented by Mr. Charlesworth.
Owing to the amount of expenditure in other departments, the Council have refrained from making any large additions by purchase to the Geological Collection ; but they have considered it expedient to devote a sum of £25. towards the publication of Lithographic Illustrations of rare and interesting Yorkshire Fossils, the originals of which are mostly contained in the Museum. The first number of the “ London Geological Jour- nal,” in which some of these plates are contained, is already published, and the second is nearly ready for publication. ‘The Lithographs, executed by pupils in the York School of Design, are highly creditable as works of art, and geologists of eminence have borne testimony to their scientific accuracy. As the pub-
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lication of these plates, together with the descriptive memoirs to be contributed by the editor, Mr. Charlesworth, must tend to promote that interest which the pen and pencil of Professor Phillips have excited in the extinct fauna of our district, the Council have thought the design well worthy of encourage- ment.
The Keeper of the Museum has devoted a considerable portion of his time to increasing and perfecting the collection of British Conchology, which has, during the past year, been more than. - doubled in extent, and the original collection mostly replaced. by better specimens. ‘The whole is distinctly labelled, and advan- tageously displayed.
The additions which this collection has received have involved no expense to the Society, having been obtained almost entirely by Mr. Charlesworth in exchange for specimens of Tertiary fossils from his private collection, which he liberally appropriated to this purpose. The most valuable shell contained in the col- lection (Pleurotoma teres, Forbes) was found by the Secretary on the coast near Redcar, during the last summer, and pre- sented by him to the Museum. Mr. Charlesworth hopes, through his extensive correspondence with the principal culti- vators of British Conchology, ultimately to make this collection one of the most complete extant.
Through the liberality of Mr. Woodward, Professor of Natural History in the Cirencester Royal Agricultural College, the Foreign Conchological Collection has been enriched by a speci- men of very remarkable interest, namely, an Argonaut-shell exhibiting a very peculiar formation. This Mr. Charlesworth explains on the supposition that the spire of the shell, having been broken off during the life of the animal, has been replaced by a small shell of the same species, which the Argonaut has fixed in a reversed position, and united to the broken edges of its habitation by the secretion of shelly matter.
In Ornithology, an interesting addition has been made to the General Collection by the purchase of a large series of Birds, sent direct to this city from Malacca; but by far the most important accession which this department of the Museum
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has EVER received, has been the munificent donation by Mr. William Rudston Read, of his extensive Collection of British Birds, on the formation of which he has during several years spared neither pains nor cost. The only condition annexed to this liberal gift was, that it should be kept separate from the general ornithological collection of the Society, and distin- guished as “ The Rudston Collection of British Birds ;” but the Council felt it no less an imperative duty, than a gratification to their own feelings, to recommend to the general monthly meeting at which the donation was announced, the election of Mr. Read as a Life Member of the Society. The Council propose, as soon as the necessary arrangements can be effected, to place “ the Rudston Collection” in one of the upper rooms of the Museum, at present occupied by a part of the Collection of Antiquities about to be removed to the Hospitium. It will thus be kept conspicuously distinct, and will permit the more effectual and instructive display of the general collection of Birds in the centre room of the Museum.
These alterations in the arrangement of the Ornithological and Antiquarian Departments will necessarily entail a consider- able expenditure, beyond what the annual income of the Society can fairly be expected to bear. The Council therefore have recently appealed to the liberality of the Members to assist in carrying these arrangements into effect. Several of the Members have already responded to this appeal, and the Subscription at | present amounts to about £110, which the Council hope will still be increased.
The chief addition to the Botanical department has been the purchase of a Herbarium of Pyrenzan Plants, collected by Mr. Spruce, formerly of this city. The Curator of Botany delivered during the summer a course of Botanical demonstrations, to which the Members of the Society and their families were gra- tuitously admitted.
The Library has continued to receive the publications of learned Societies at home and abroad; in other respects the _ donations have not been numerous or important. But the
Society has had the good fortune to obtain by purchase, at-a
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very moderate cost, several highly useful and important works on Natural History, part of a collection submitted to public auction in this city during last summer, a list of which will be found in the appendix to this report. The Council continue to subscribe for, amongst others, the valuable publications of the Ray Society ; for the splendid work of Mr. Gould on the Birds of Australia, and Mr. Gray’s no less beautiful publica- tion on the Genera of Birds; and in the antiquarian branch of the Library, for the works of Archdeacon Churton on the Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire, and of Mr. Browne on the History of York Minster (the latter within one part of its completion). The Curator of Meteorology has presented to the Council his observations on the weather at York, the results of which are contained in the following Table :—
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER—YORK, 1846.
Barometer. Thermometer. wn o e . e | ate dla la /S3i | is, |g S48 18 Ale | 8 gale gie sls o fee] s o & o |] © ~ (BT ilslela 4 #3 v 80 ra é bo Pilg ~ Ee EIS SES Prevalent Wind. g| i]s B18 2 ge Pizs|s° s 4 |< a yw > a Jan. |.29°907| 30°65 | 28°75 || 2°55 |/46°4/ 36°8|| 41°5| 35°2||52/26) 9 | 14 Westerly. Feb. |29°935| 30°47 | 29°34 *28 ||48°8]37°2)| 43° | 38° ||58/26) 7 3 || Westerly. Mar. | 22°740} 30°72 | 29°05 || 1°01//50°1)35°1/)42°6) 41° ||55.21; 7 | 11 || S. West. April |29°778| 30°36 | 29°05 || 4+24||52"8|38°6) 45-7) 45° |[63.31| 4 | 20 || N, W.& NE. May | 29°964/ 30°36 | 29°00 || 1°17 || 64°3)46* |/55* | 52° |/72/41) — | 11 Westerly. June |30°045} 30°44 | 29°44 || 1°64||'75°6| 54°4)|64°9) 58° |/86)43) — 6 || S. E. July | 29°884] 30°23 | 29°17 || 3°56|/'71°9/ 54° || 63° | 60° |\85\48) — | 11 Westerly. Aug. |}29°996} 30°37 | 29°59 || 1°75 ||'71°3/54°6)|| 63° |59°6)|80.42) — | 14 || North & South. Sept. | 30°026} 30°60 | 29°37 || 0°79 ||67°2| 49°3) 58*3| 54°6)|74.41) — | 10 || Various.
Oct. | 29°632} 30°30 | 28°82 || 4°59||54°1/41°4//47°8) 48° |/62,\29) 5 | 23 Southerly. Nov. | 29°969} 30°60 | 28°99 |} 2°29||47°1|39°4)| 43°3) 41°3||57/26) 5 | 13 || S. EB.
Dec. |29°834| 30°55 | 28°85 || 1°79|/36°1| 25°4||31°7| 39°6)147 12 26) 8 || N. W.
298°92 25°66 50° |47°7 63 |144
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COMPARATIVE PREVALENCE OF WINDS, N. Ss. E. Ww. N.E. N.W. S.E. S.W. Days : ll. 39. 21. 79. 34. 49. 68. 64.
Mean height of the mercury at 9 morning 29°9268.
MOG sala's este gic see: cine operas cree 8 afternoon. 29-9157. Mean daily depression at .... 3 afternoon. 0111. Mean height for the year ............seeee. 29°8929. Mean temperature for the year 1846 50°.
if for a series of 13 years 47:7. Excess above the mean ........+...4. 2°3.
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Notwithstanding the extreme cold of December, (8° below the mean temperature of that month at York,) it will be seen that the extraordinary heat of the summer months more than compensated for the deficiency. This increase of temperature eommenced in May, and continued till September, those months averaging 4 degrees above the usual mean. The highest temperature of the year was 86°, on the 19th of June, and the lowest, 12°, on the 14th of December. The mean temperature of December, viz. 317, was lower than the temperature of that month at any time during the last 17 years. The nearest approach to it was in the year 1840, viz. 33:3. On the other hand, the temperature of June was 64°'9. During the last 17 years, the nearest approach to that temperature was in July, 1884, viz.62°9. The rain of the year has been about 14 inch above a mean quantity; it was distributed over the twelve months in about its usual proportions, except that in October 4°59 inches fell, being 2 inches more than a mean quantity.
The following notices of the depth of rain have been received,
INCHES. Doncaster ...... mow dace < 27682 Ackworth |. .... sis ses “SAR Ae 25:900 SOG F eis :cie'ere abe oheleistate ata! wlatese 37°880 TRU CORBY aS wcleicle sie:cle Vel sia ates’ 6 35:870
The Sub-Curator has continued his diligent care of the Garden and Hot-houses. The donation of a large Conservatory by Mrs. William Taylor, has enabled the Council at a moderate expense to erect a range of Hot-houses suitable both to the growth of Orchidaceous plants, and to the cultivation of specimens of the economical as well as ornamental tribes. Amongst these will be found examples of the sugar cane, coffee, tea, ginger, cotton plant, &e. Of the 303 natural orders enumerated in Dr. Lind-
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ley’s recently published work on “The Vegetable Kingdom,” the Society possesses representatives of no less than 200. The Sub-Curator has been enabled by his extensive correspondence to effect many valuable exchanges with the Curators of the Royal Gardens at Kew, the Royal Botanical Society’s Gardens in the Regent’s Park, and the Botanical Garden at Hull, as well as with several private individuals.
The Council regret to have again to report the want of success which attended the Horticultural Exhibition, held in ‘the Society’s Gardens in June last, arising from no want of zeal or efficient management on the part of the Committee, but from an unfortunate concurrence of circumstances over which they had no controul.
For a statement of the Society’s finances, the Council refer the Meeting to the balance-sheet which accompanies this report. They have much pleasure in congratulating the Society upon the increasing interest taken by the public in the Museum and Gardens, as evinced by the sum received at the gate for the admission of strangers, amounting during the year to £174. In addition to this the public have, as customary, been admitted gratuitously on Whit-Monday and Tuesday. Another important item in the receipts is the money received at the Swimming Bath. The unusual heat of the summer may in part account for the large increase in this branch of the Society’s income, which, after deducting all expenses incident thereto, leaves a balance in favour of the Society of £112. 10s. 10d.
The Council have been called upon to repay to the Executors of the late William Gray, Esq., the sum of £1000. lent to the Society some years since by that gentleman ; and a further sum of £379. has been required for the purchase of Mr. Hargrove’s Collection of Antiquities, as awarded by reference to competent arbitrators. In the present state of its finances, the regular income of the Society is fully adequate to defray all the ordinary expenses which it can be called upon to bear,—but it must be recollected that little can be done in the furtherance of those scientific objects for which the Society was originally established, without the revival of that general interest which the origin of
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the Society and the foundation of the Museum elicited throughout the county of York. The Council see with pleasure a gradual increase in the total number of Members, but a much larger accession of strength will be required, to enable the Society to extend in any material degree its usefulness to science.
The Council trust that the Annual Meeting will be satisfied with the statements that have been made as to the general con- dition of the Society, the vigorous growth of its collections, and the great public interest felt in its Museum and Gardens. They cannot however report so favourably of the share taken by the Members at large in the scientific proceedings of the Society. The Monthly Meetings for scientific communications, which formerly were well attended, have for some years past fallen into comparative neglect: the scanty attendance of Members discourages the preparation of communications, and thus one main object of the Institution is permitted to languish. Shall we change the hour and modify the arrangements of these meetings, with the hope of augmenting the attendance of Members? Shall we circulate through our Society some printed Reports of our Proceedings, for the purpose of reviving the interest once felt in our progress, not only in the immediate neighbour- hood of York, but even to the extremities of the County? It must be left to those who shall be entrusted with the adminis- tration of your affairs in the ensuing year to answer these ques- tions: the retiring Council have, however, left on record the elements of a plan which may perhaps be realized under other auspices, for the occasional publication of such communications presented at the Meetings as relate to the Natural History and Antiquities of Yorkshire, and may deserve to be generally known.
With such objects in view, and with such a plan of expansive usefulness in operation, in addition to the instruction and grati- fication already provided for the Members and the Public by its well-stored Museum, its beautiful and instructive Garden, and the attention bestowed on the preservation of the venerable relics of Antiquity entrusted to its care, the Society may be justified
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in asserting its claim to a continuance and increase of public patronage. During the lapse of four and twenty years since‘its first commencement, the Society has had to deplore the loss of a very great number of its early supporters and friends. But it is to be hoped that its ranks may continue to be recruited by a large accession of younger and no less zealous fellow-labourers, who, both by their pecuniary subscriptions and scientific com- ‘munications, will uphold the efficiency and character of an Institution, in which the City and the County of York may justly feel a lively interest and an honest pride.
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THE
TREASURER OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
IN ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1846.
Dr. 1846. Bu 8. de Annual Subscriptions andArrears 545 0 0 Admission of New Members ..... 55.0 0 Composition in lieu of Annual Subscriptions .............5.. 20 0 0 Ladies’ Subscriptions and Keys of the Gates ....... Sesigiend ere eidiasape Mos eee OF Money received at the Gates . 174,4 6 PAGRIGE ET cies c docivusatencscoeens ee = 8 hee Use of Tent. ..veseveceddecsdsess ~*90-0-0 Gas for Evening Meetings........ 110 0 Swimming Bath (deducting Ex- penses)..... IA SOAR a Rinatbelde's slots 112 11 10 Dividends on Stock ........... oh BSR Sale of £3000 Stock............ +. 2884 7 0 Permanent Debt, viz.: Six Members at £50each...... 300 0 0 4268 4 6 Balance overdrawn Messrs. Swann and Co., December Slst, 1846 ......... PrP ce ges 265 13 2 Audited by us, January 25th, 1847, JOHN KENRICK, JOHN PHILLIPS. £4533 17 8
. Gate Keeper
Wi L. Rider ........
1846, Le Sede Permanent Debt, viz.:
Six Members at £50 each .... Balance overdrawn Messrs,
Swann and Co., December
Slst, 1845 ...... Crown Rent..........+5 Corporation Rent (half-
HYCAL) ..ceeeeee secee 8 Insurance .......... 5 defo. 60.0.0 0 PE Keeper of the Museum150 Clerk and Collector.... 15 ENEGTOSE <6 aso esis eis oe Sub-Curator, on Account
of Salary, Disburse-
ments, Labour, &c. ..305 0 0
eee eee ee eee)
1, 0, E
4 0 8 0 0
— i —
Executors of W. Gray, Esq., debt and interest Sundry Bills, viz. :
Stee eeseeceseceres
' Purchase of Specimens 54 9 0
Purchase of Books .... 14 8 6
_ Grant towards the Pub-
lication of Yorkshire
HOMMUIN ids San ccs csss Edward Newman ...... 10 0 Bde Bec Mrs. Buckley.......... 27 8 C. §. Brearey, for Tent 9 0 Horticultural Exhibition 23 17 Te Grech ees. ccc ceccce 1Q 3
eoosonovwaos?se
W. Noton, Plumber and Glavier. <5 cccstas meskes J. Bowes, Bricklayer .. 18 11 H. Sotheran, Stationer 10 12 J. F. Brown, Painter.... 25-13 R. Burdekin, Printer... 17 0 J. Cluderay, Joiner .... 54 8 Sundry Small Bills .... 97 2
oo oo coco
' Purchase of Mr. Har-
grove’s Collection ..37910 0
Cr. Ls. 8. de
300 0 O
184310 3
523 7 &
1010 0 @
857 0 0
£4533 17 8
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ANALYSIS OF DISBURSEMENTS.
ORDINARY EXPENSES,
Rents, Rates, &c.: £. 8. Rent to tHE TOWN «vise. oioee Viste te wislals siete Ure.ctesis A aE UN, Rent tothe Corporation)’ 5 dhssisiw oi leis eo ale stole e euawre 8.4 Rates and Taxes ........ LG IE Sie Uk ees ciate 8 8 Insurance and Water Rent =... .. cece eee ceev ee lio
Salaries and Wages:
Keeper:of the Muséqinry (1.10. eleisis slercie'eld ine ieee» 150 0
PITT W CPBUOL els aruve sie casiaiolclaiere iets siete ius cles tetas fotanatels (100 0
SEEVERIE |a' aje wie eleye'sielentcals ah bagarehei eles oie 5’ ehodtele stare sie eOu le
LOdSEKCOPO «0.00010. ciswidie Blot «leialdia Cbs Paine ieteiats 12 8
Labourers: fakin. 2. 2 SOU OR TOR Ee 128 9
Gierk aN ODIBOtEL eles misc siosstelede cteisieicls Siarvielaiorc 6 15 0 Interest on Debt:
Interest on £1000), ieccisicin.celeteis 0000 0 Rae cieeeeie 10 0
Interest to Bankers for being overdrawn..........+. 31 1d Museum, Gardens, Grounds, &c.:
Painting and General Repairs ..........e0eeee0 137 9
Purchase and Preparation of Specimens ........ -- 95 14
ODSERVALOrYy, SPU tite nc ets s wboieihie sie nieteeinisie « 113 Library :
Booksiand Binding -o:.). sepsis sd e'dielele's viasieviesic ss vie Incidentals :
Grant towards Publication of Yorkshire Fossils .... 25 0
Printing, Advertising, and Stationery ........+.0. 89 11
CORI BIG Gas) o ceicieie!ereiepese nioianse sere ibis ate eels 0 'elslel 80 15
Postages, Carriages, and Sundries ...........-.00. 33 11
EXTRAORDINARY EXPENSES.
New Hot Houses) eisisiste iis ofeisicieleide sole ciecccdecciccces 58 15 Purchase of Mr. Hargrove’s Collection of Antiquities .... 879 10 On Account of Repairs of St. Leonard’s Hospital........ 27. 8 Loss by Horticultural Exhibition ........ceeeeeeeeees 23 17 Pmrchase of Tent, o:. sis iniehlomsatscepisiaiedte slele/orsrateicieck oie ial ae 9 0
W. Gray, Esq. (Repayment of Loan) .....seseeeeeeeeeeL000 0
ad & & @. 1 4 4 0 OB 2. 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 425 17 0 0 0 41 15 0 0 0 6 234 16 6 20). 7,0 0 6 6 11 128 18 11 2 0 8 9 0 0 1498 11 2
£2373 18 4
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RESOLUTIONS
PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
1. That the Report of the Council be adopted and printed for the use of the Members.
2. That the alterations in the laws of the Society, as now read, and a copy of which alterations have, after being signed by five sub- scribing Members, been put up in the entrance hall of the Museum for one month previous to this ‘Sia be adopted and printed with the Report.
3. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Vice-Presidents and Members of the Council retiring from office.
4. That the Thanks of the Society be given to the Treasurer, Secretary, and Curators of the different departments of the Museum, for their valuable services.
5. That the Council be empowered, on certain days to be selected by them during the present year, to permit free admission to the Museum and Gardens to all persons; the mode of admission to be regulated by the Council.
6. That the Council be empowered to admit Strangers during the present year, at the usual rates of payment.
7. That the Council be authorized to admit to the Museum and Gardens, “as temporary subscribers, any occasional visitors to York, not residing in the County, at the rate of One Pound for four months for themselves and their families; but that in no case shall such pri- vilege be granted for a longer period than twelve months.
8. That the best Thanks of the Society be given to the Chairman and Committee of Management of the Horticultural Féte held in June last.
ALTERATIONS IN THE LAWS
OF THE
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
Secrion III.— Page 8. BALLOT FOR MEMBERS.
III. The ballot for a Candidate shall take place at a General Meeting, and if three-fourths of the Subscribing Members present vote in the affirmative, he shall, after payment of his admission fee of Five Pounds as hereafter mentioned, be admitted into the Society.
Szction [V.—Page 9.
IV. If any Member do not pay his Arrears within three months after notice thereof has been sent to him, his Privileges shall be suspended until the same be paid; and should his Subscription remain unpaid for three consecutive years, the Council shall be empowered, after one month’s notice has been given to him, to erase his name from the list of Members.
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SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS
OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
ELECTED SINCE FEBRUARY, 1845.
1845.
Rey. Francis Orpen Morris, Nafferton, Driffield. Rey. Edward J. Raines, York.
Rey. Robert Daniel, York.
Rev. A. W. Dorset Fellowes, York.
Thomas Simpson, York.
William F. Lockwood, York.
Seth Agar, York.
Francis W. Calvert, York.
James Backhouse, York.
John Wilson, New-street, York.
George Cooke Yarborough, Camps Mount, Doncaster. Leonard Thompson, Sheriff Hutton Park.
1846.
Rev. Josiah Crofts, York.
Charles Gregory Fairfax, Gilling Castle. Daniel Seaton, York.
William Spencer Campion, York. Rey. William H. Oldfield, York. Edward White, York.
James Guy, York.
John Thompson, York.
William Murray Tuke, York. Jonathan Pulleyne, York.
William Hargrove, York.
William Rudston Read, Hayton Hall.
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SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS,
JANUARY AND Fepruary, 1847.
Edwin Wade, York.
George Oldfield, York.
Beverley Robinson Morris, M. D., York. Thomas Ellis, York.
William Danby, York.
William Gray, jun., York.
Capt. William Hotham, R.N., York. Robert Dempsey, York.
William Procter, York.
Henry Brown, York.
The Duke of Northumberland, F. R. S.
HONORARY MEMBER ELECTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, 1847.
The Marquis of Northampton, P.R.S., &c.
Number of Subscribing Members, Feb. 3, 1847. 294
Ditto Compounding Members ....... rachsanate owe Total Number of Members ............ Elected since last Report ......ccsssceecseeseesees
Deceased ...... 9 Withdrawn ... 8
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ROPER. rceisdcceccesetorectenetee te
DONATIONS
TO
THE SOCIETY’S MUSEUM.
GEOLOGY.
Archdeacon Wilberforce ...
S. V. Wood, Esq........000 : E. Charlesworth, Esq. ......
Marquis of Northampton... J. S. Rudd, Esq. ...-..-.000 Rev. J. Holroyd ........+00 William Whincopp, Esq....
Mr. D. Graham....ccsssseeeee
Fossil Wood from Bridlington Quay, perforated by Saxicava.
Tertiary Fossils from the United States. Cast of the specimen of Plesiosaurus Hawkinsii in the British Museum. A Collection of Tertiary Fossils from
Palermo. Pleurotomaria Anglica, from the Lias at Redcar. Fine example of Spongia radiciformis (Phillips) from the Chalk at Flambro’. An interesting series of Sharks’ Teeth, from the Red Crag of Suffolk. Examples of Lavas, &c., from Iceland.
ZOOLOGY.
W. H. R. Read, Esq. ...... W. J. Salmond, Esq. ......
Capt. R. R. Currer ......... T. W. Flower, Esq. ......+0+
M. Lambe, Esq. ........+ ove
Samuel Woodward, Esq....
The Rupston Cottxction of British Birds.
Skins of various Quadrupeds, from Malacca.
Fourteen Skins of Birds, from Australia.
A Collection of Land and Fresh Water Shells, from Upper Canada.
Skin of the Black Squirrel (Sciurus niger) from the United States.
Remarkable Shell of an Argonaut.
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Thomas Meynell, jun., Esq. A fine example of Pleurotoma teres (Forbes), from Redcar. T. S. Rudd, Esq. ............ A specimen of Mytilus subsaxatilis, from
Redcar. Mr. D. Graham ............ Motacilla alba (male and female), from Iceland. Mr. Robt. Anderson (South ) Wood perforated by a large species of StOcKtOR) 1. scvete seveceess Teredo. R. Nicholson, Esq. ......... Specimen of the Goosander. Capt. T. W. Oldfield ...... Sections of Tooth of the Asiatic Elephant.
W.H. R. Read, Esq....... Fine preparation of the Cranial Bones, in a detached state.
ANTIQUITIES.
Archeological Institute ...... Cast of a Roman Pig of Lead, inscribed IMP. CAES. DOMITIANO. AVG. COS. VII. found at Hog- shaw Moor, near Pately Bridge.
G. F. Jones, Eissg.....0.:.esceree Cast of an ancient Rood from Sher- burn Church. Rev. G. Lewthwaite ......... Casts of a Roman Altar, inscribed
DEAE BRIGANTIAE, and of a tablet inscribed PRIMINVS MENTLA, from Adel. Casts of two Norman Capitals, from Adel
Church. P. C. Maxwell, Esq..........40. Antique Silver Ring and Spur. Miss R. Oldfield ......... «e-. Fifteen Coins of various descriptions.
Edwin Smith, Esq. ............ Roman Altar from Northumberland.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Capt. T. W. Oldfield .. ... A Goorkah Koorkoory or knife, with Scabbard and Appendages. W. H. R. Read, Esq. ...... Collection of Indian Weapons.
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LIBRARY.
—_—_————.
BOOKS, &c. PRESENTED.
O. Allen, Esq. (the Author) History of York Dispensary, 8vo. 1845. Geological Society .......... Quarterly Journal of the Society, Nos. v—viii.
Royal Academy of Bruxelles Bulletin de l Academie, 1844. Representatives of the late) Penn’s Comparative Estimate of the J. W. Field, ach ie Mineral and Mosaical Geologies, 2 vols. 8yvo. John Lee, L.L.D., F.R.S. Catalogue of Oriental MSS. in the Li- brary at Hartwell. A Pamphlet on the Arrangement of an Observatory ; and Observations on the placing of Thermometers, both by
Henry Lawson, Esq. Edwin Smith, Esq. .......... Thornton’s British Flora, 5 vols. 8vo. Joseph Clarke, Esq.......... Abridged Catalogue of the Saffron-Wal-
den Museum. Council of the Zoological Society ..cccesseseseeee toe E. Charlesworth, Esq........ London Geological Journal, No. i. (du- plicate.)
is Proceedings of the Society for 1845.
Geological and Polytechnic Society of the Wes | Proceedings of the Society. Riding iss deoddedsisveve. ove
Leeds Phil. and Lit. Society Report for 1845.
Sir R. I. Murchison, Presi- ) Address to the British Association as- dent of the British Ase sembled at Southampton, September,
CIALION .00....00 000 doadites 1846. A Paper on the Detritus of Sweden, &c. Professor Phillips............ Tract on the Fossil Infusoria and Fora-
minifera of Yorkshire. W. ©. Williamson, Esq.,) Tract on some Microscopical Objects (the Author )........+5 4 Sh found in the mud of the Levant. Réy. Ii Do Petit’ 305.0558 Original Drawings, illustrative of the architecture of Beverley Minster.
28 LIBRARY.
BOOKS PURCHASED.
Bingley’s British Quadrupeds, 8vo. (plates) 1809.
Brisson Ornithologie, 6 tom. 4to., and Atlas of Plates, (original im- pressions) Paris, 1760.
Da Costa’s Elements of Conchology, 8vo. 1776.
Dillwyn’s British Conferve, 4to. (numerous col. plates) Lond., 1809.
Entomological Magazine, 5 vols. 8vo. (col. plates) London, 1833-38.
Forbes’ (Edw.) Malacologia Monensis, Edin. 1838.
Gray's (M. E.) Figures of Molluscous Animals, 8vo. London, 1842.
Guérin et Perchon—Genera des Insectes, 4to. (col. plates), Paris, 1835-38.
Gualtieri Index Testarum Conchyliorum, royal folio, Florentie, 1742.
Martin’s Derbyshire Petrifactions, 4to. (col. plates), Wigan, 1798.
Montagu’s Testacea Britannica, with the Supplement, (plates), 3 vols. 4to., 1803-8.
Pennant’s British Zoology, 4 vols. 4to., Warrington, 1776.
Pichet Recherches sur les Phryganides, 4to. Geneve, 1834.
Pulteney’s Catalogue of the Birds, Shells, and Plants of Dorsetshire, fol., London, 1813.
Rosmissler Iconographie der Land-und Susswisser Mollusken ; Parts i. to xi. 4to. (very numerous plates.) Dresden and Leip- sig, 1835-42.
Sparrman’s Voyage to the Cape, 2 vols. in 1, 4to. London, 1786.
Schréten Geschichte der Flussconchylien, (col. plates) 4to. Halle, 1779.
Shaw’s Naturalist’s Miscellany, 8vo.
Townson’s Tracts on Natural History, 8vo. London, 1799.
Walker’s Testacea Minuta rariora, 4to.
Watson’s Botanist’s Guide. London, 1835.
Willughby’s Ornithology, by Ray, fol., London, 1678.
Lindley’s Vegetable Kingdom, 8vo., London, 1846.
SERIAL WORKS SUBSCRIBED FOR.
Gould’s Birds of Australia, fol., col. plates, 25 parts published.
Gray’s Genera of Birds, fol., col. plates, 34 parts published. .
Doubleday’s Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, fol., col. plates, 4 parts published.
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Sowerby’s Thesaurus Conchyliorum, 8vo., col. plates, 7 parts published. Waterhouse’s Natural History of Mammalia, 8vo., col. plates, 13 parts published. Browne’s York Minster, 4to., 31 parts published. Churton’s Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire, 4 parts published. Publications of the Ray Society, viz. Alder and Hancock on British Nudibranchiate Mollusca, 4to., col. plates, 1845. Steenstrup on the Alternation of Generations, 8yo., 1845. Memorials of John Ray, 8vo., 1846. Reports on Zoology and Botany, 8vo., 1846. Meyen’s Outlines of Geography of Plants, 8vo., 1846.
PERIODICALS.
London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, monthly. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, monthly. Phytologist, monthly.
London Geological Journal.
DONATIONS TO THE GARDEN.
Mrs. W. Taylor, West- bourne Terrace, London
Capt. R. R. Currer ......... Collection of Seeds from Norfolk Island.
F. B. Hacket, Esq. .-........ Collection of 75 bulbs, and 126 papers of
Seeds, from the Cape.
John Wood, Esq., London Fifty papers of Seeds.
H. Robinson, Esq., ......... Sixty Melo-cacti.
Wm. Vetch, Esq., Hveter Six New Plants from Java.
George Hobson, Esq. ...... Seeds from the Burmese Empire.
Thomas Meynell, jun., Esq. Collection of Seeds from Australia.
A large Conservatory.
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TOWARDS FITTING UP
THE HOSPITIUM OF ST. MARYS ABBEY, FOR THE RECEPTION
OF THE GENERAL COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES.
The Right Hon. The Lord Mayor of York, M.P..... Sir John Lowther, Bart., M.P. Sir W. Lawson, Bart., F.8. A. Sir T D. Legard, Bart. .... Sir R. Frankland Russell, Bart. H. R. Yorke, Esq., M.P..... Colonel Cholmley Fld OX, MESES iiei Cle. ae
N. E. Yarburgh, Esq. ...... ;
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George H. Seymour, Esq. .. George Shann, Esq., M.D... Robert Gilbert, Esq. ...... George Palmes, Esq. ...... Mr. J. F. Brown, (deceased). Randall Hatfeild Esq....... W. D. Littledale, Esq....... Josh. Field Whittell, Esq. .. J sBrook, Faq... snina-dant Re ESICG, TUS Seis: 0'e: vierels cy oc W. Dyson, Esq. . R. H. Roundell, Esq. Leonard Thompson, Esq. .. A. Lawson, Esq., M.P.
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$.° a. £ 8 de G. Dodsworth, Esq.......-. LLG Mr. H. Sotheran ......... see k' OF W. D. T. Duesbery, Esq. .. 1 1 0 | Mr. N. Turmer............ Lok. 0 Rev. J. Swire ......-- wees iosrksnO i) Mr We. Bartley | 5... sicsistaates Mie 0 Jos. Munby, Esq. ........ PeOneQ ot Mr. J. Cluderay® ...<0.e/diete Pakood John Leadbitter, Esq....... 12 O's Mri Fos. Spans”... 0s EE O:40 Rey. W. H. Oldfield........ Ee 'OLrO
Further Subscriptions towards the above object, from Members of the Society, or
other individuals, will be received by R. Davies, Esq., the Treasurer, or T. MEYNELL, Jun., Esq., the Secretary.
H. SOTHERAN, CONEYSTREET, YORK.
1 sear 1886
BMorkshire Philosophical Society.
ANNUAL REPORT
MDCCCXLVIT,
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE COUNCIL
OF THE
YORKSHIRE
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
FOR
MDCCCXLVI.
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
FEBRUARY 1, 1848,
H,. SOTHERAN, CONEYSTREET.
1848.
TRUSTEES
OF
THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT.
GEORGE, EARL OF CARLISLE, K. G.
CHARLES WILLIAM, EARL FITZWILLIAM. THOMAS PHILIP, EARL DE GREY.
HON. axp VERY REV. HENRY HOWARD, D. D. SIR WILLIAM LAWSON, BART, F.S.A. | FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ., F.S. A.
ROBERT DENISON, ESQ. _
REV. WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, F. B.S. RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ. |
PATRONESSES
OF THE
Morkshire Philosophical Society,
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. H. R. H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT.
PATRONS,
EARL OF CARLISLE, K.G. EARL FITZWILLIAM, F.R.S. EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F.R. 8. THE VISCOUNT MORPETH. THE LORD FEVERSHAM.
THE LORD WENLOCK.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1848.
PRESIDENT :
Earn Firzwiti1am, F.R.S.
VICE-PRESIDENTS :
Francis Cuotmerry, F.S. A.
Rev. Wittiam Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S.
GroreEe Hupson, M. P.
Rey. Joun Kenricr, M. A.
Srr Witiram Lawson, Bart., F.S. A.
Tur Lorp Mayor or York,
His Grace tHe Duke or NorTHUMBERLAND, F.R.S. Rey. CHARLES WELLBELOVED.
TREASURER:
Rosert Davies, F.S. A.
COUNCIL :
Elected 1846....Joun Forp. JosHUA OLDFIELD. JoHN PREsvT. Epwin SMItTH. Elected 1847. ...GEorGE DopsworTH. Wim Gray, F.G.S. Rev. Witi1am Hey. Joun Puttuips, F.R.S. Elected 1848, ...GrorcE Gotpirz, M.D. Epwarp Hartstong, F.S. A. Rev. Rosert Bryan Cooxg, F.G.S. Tuomas Henry TRAVIs.
SECRETARY :
THoMAS MeryneLL, Jun., F.L.S.
6 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM:
Epwarp. CHARLESwortH, F.G.S.
HONORARY CURATORS :
ANISQUITING: oo. ches .... REV. C. WELLBELOVED. BOTANY. PiU awe ns seco Oswatp ALLEN Moors. CoMPARATIVE ANATOMY .... THomAs ALLIS. Lesenatory 200.0. Ss. see T. H. BarKker.
LIBRARY «oi. cepuntmiaalt. GeorcE Gotpiz, M.D. MBTBOROLOGY. 2... 0. 2 ae JoHN Forp. OBSERVATORY ....... wee. W. L. Newnan, F.R.A.S.
SUB-CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM & GARDENS:
Henry BAInNgEs.
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
TO THE
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, ON THE Ist OF FEBRUARY, 1848.
Frw events of peculiar importance have occurred during the past year to require prominent notice in the report of the Council to the present Annual Meeting.
The completion of the alterations connected with the ‘enclo- sure of the remains of St. Leonard’s Hospital within the Society’s grounds and the entrance to the Gardens, has been again deferred, in consequence of the plans of the Corporation with regard to the improvements in the adjoining streets not being definitively fixed, so as to admit.of the proper levels and boun- dary line being determined.
In the Report presented to the last Annual Meeting, the Council intimated that it would be the duty of their successors to devise some plan for reviving the interest formerly taken by the members of the Society in its scientific proceedings. As this suggestion was favourably received by the Annual Meeting, the present Council determined on making a trial of certain changes regarding the Monthly Meetings. The hour at which they are fixed by the Society’s laws (One P. M.), appearing to be an in- convenient one for a numerous attendance of Members, it was resolved to try the experiment whether, by adjourning these Meetings to an evening hour, a fuller attendance could be obtained, by which means it was hoped that more encouragement
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would be held out for the production of scientific communica- tions. With a similar object, the Council determined to adopt the example of other Societies, by printing, for distribution amongst the members, the scientific Proceedings of each Meeting, containing, in abstract or at full length, such papers or notices as specially related to the Natural History, Topo- graphy, and Antiquities of Yorkshire. Although several circum- stances have combined to render the experiment hitherto only partially successful, the Council have reason, upon the whole, to be satisfied with its result ; and although they have not proposed at present any alteration in the Society’s existing laws regarding the Monthly Meetings, they would recommend the continuance of this experiment.
Three numbers of the ‘ Proceedings’ have been printed, and delivered to the Members. They comprise several communica- tions of great interest and value ; and it is to be hoped that their circulation may operate as a stimulus to those who have the ability and the leisure to contribute information in the same manner to future Meetings, and thus not only to keep alive the interest of both the resident and more distant Members in the Society’s pursuits, but eventually to treasure up a store of facts and researches, which may furnish valuable materials for an accurate and complete Natural and Topographical History of this great County.
The Council now proceed to give some account of what has been effected during the past year, in the several departments of the Institution.
To the Collection of Antiquities an addition has been made of a highly interesting character, and reflecting great credit on the liberality of the donor. By the kindness of Joseph Dent, Esq., the High Sheriff of the county, the wish expressed by the historian of York a century ago, and repeated by the author of “ Eburacum,”* has been accomplished, and the monumental stone in commemoration of Lucius Duccius, a standard-bearer of the ninth legion, found about the year 1686, in Trinity Gardens, and afterwards removed to Ribston Hall, has been
* See Drake’s York, p. 58, Wellbeloved’s Eburacum, p. 114,
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“ yestored to York,” and is now deposited in the Hospitium of St. Mary’s Abbey, under the guardianship of this Society, amongst other similar valuable relics of Roman York.
The cabinet of Coins has received an interesting addition by a donation from Lord Wenlock, consisting of 57 pieces, a por- tion of a hoard of groats of Philip and Mary, and Elizabeth, and of shillings and sixpences of Elizabeth, and James I. The hoard was discovered in a farm at Deighton, on his Lordship’s estate, and immediately conveyed to him by his tenant.
Early in the spring of last year, a large hoard of Northum- brian Stycas was accidentally discovered in a field on the banks of the Wharfe, in the parish of Bolton Percy. Having been secretly dispersed, it has not been found possible to ascertain the number of coins which it contained; but it is probable that it amounted to between seven and eight thousand, more than three thousand of which have, partly by donation, but chiefly by purchase, come into possession of the Society, forming an im- portant addition to those previously obtained by the discovery at York. The hoard of Bolton Percy is the fifth that has been discovered, all in the north of England, and during the present century.* This peculiar coinage is now engaging the attention of numismatists ; and the Curator of Antiquities believes that no cabinet in any Museum contains so large and interesting a col- lection of Stycas, as that belonging to this Society.
The Subscription entered into in 1846 for fitting up the Hospitium of St. Mary’s Abbey for the reception of the general collection of Antiquities, though falling short of the expected amount, has enabled the Council to complete the res- toration of the upper room, and to fit it up, by the adaptation of cases already in the Society’s possession, for the reception of the smaller objects requiring such protection. The lower story has for some years been occupied by the sculptured fragments of
* The first occurred in 1808, in the parish of Kirk Oswald, in Cumberland. In 1813, a few Stycas of Ecgfrid were found in the chapel-yard of Heworth, in the county of Durham; in 1832, about 8000 Stycas were discovered in the church-yard of Hexham; and in 1842 a hoard of nearly the same number was turned up in St. Leonard’s Place, York.
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St. Mary’s Abbey and other medieval edifices in York, and, with an addition now in progress, will further afford an appropriate depository for the more bulky Roman remains (altars, sarco- phagi, inscribed stones, &c.), mostly discovered in and around York ; so that the entire building will comprise a Museum of Local Antiquities, adding greatly to the stores of instruc- tion and interest which the Society is enabled to present to its Members and Visitors. The whole collection, however, will require complete and careful arrangement, to render it as instructive as it is intrinsically valuable ; and the Council have reason to hope for very efficient assistance in this necessary work. ‘The addition to the accommodations in the Hospitium, to which reference has just been made, the Council have been enabled to accomplish by the liberal benefaction of a deceased Member and zealous friend of the Society, the late Mr. Copsie, who bequeathed to the Society the sum of £100., accompanied by the expression of his desire that it should be applied to some object connected with the department of Antiquities; a condi- tion with which the Council could not hesitate in complying. Concurring cordially in the opinion of the Curator of Antiqui- ties, that the legacy could not be devoted to a better purpose, or one more in accordance with the wishes of the testator, the Council at once decided to apply it to the substantial restoration of that part of the lower story of the Hospitium which still lay in ruins. This work is now proceeding, and will be completed as soon as the season permits, at a cost little exceeding the amount of the proceeds of the legacy.
In the department of Natural History, the report of the Keeper of the Museum shews the continued exertion of his zealous care of the collections committed to his superintendence, and records many valuable additions to their contents. ‘Those to the Geological collection include the valuable purchase effected by Mr. Charlesworth, of two Saurian heads from the Lias of Whitby, the one a Teleosaurus, the other an undeter- mined species of Ichthyosaurus. ‘‘'These specimens,” observes Mr. C., ‘ form a great addition to our collection of extinct Rep- tilia, and I believe they may, in some respects, be respectively
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considered unique, the cranium of the Ichthyosaurus exhibiting neither displacement nor compression, while the lower jaw of the Teleosaurus is detached, so as to allow of the superior surface being seen through its whole extent, to the termination of the condyloid processes.” A very beautiful specimen of Asterias arenicola (figured in pl. 17 of the London Geological Journal) has also been obtained by purchase. The most remarkable donations to the Geological collection have been the remains of Gyrosteus mirabilis Agassiz, (a gigantic osseous fish) from the Lias of Whitby, presented by Dr. Murray, of Scarborough,—a unique Ichthyolite, (Pleuracanthus levissimus Agassiz) pre- sented by the widow of a late lamented member of the Society, the Rey. T. Egerton,—a series of fossils from the Gloucester- shire Lias, by Mr. Allis,—and some interesting remains of fishes from the Caithness slate at Thurso, by Mr. David Graham.
Mr. Charlesworth has made considerable progress in labelling the general collection of fossils, and mounting the specimens on tablets, a mode of arrangement which displays them to great advantage. The fossils of the green sand, chalk, London clay, and newer tertiary beds, are now exhibited after this method, which he proposes gradually to extend to other parts of the col- lection.
The first part of the list of British fossils, referred to in the report for 1845, embracing the whole of the known Tertiary species, is now ready, and copies are laid on the table for the inspection of members.
The Council would also invite the attention of the Members to the specimens of fossil zoophytes from the Flamborough Chalk, which Mr. Charlesworth has happily succeeded inclearing from the matrix by the application of dilute muriatic acid, so as strikingly to exhibit not only the external aspect of these organic remains in their original perfection and beauty, but also to shew their internal structure.
No donations of particular moment have been received for the general collection of Ornithology; but a portion of the Malacca collection, formerly purchased by the Society, has been mounted at a considerable cost. ‘The appropriation of one of the
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upper rooms of the Museum (recently devoted to antiquities) to the reception of the Rudston collection of British Birds, has admitted of the display of this fine collection in a manner which shews the Society’s appreciation of the gift, while it affords greater facilities for study to those who cultivate British orni- thology. The smaller insessorial species have been removed from the separate cases which they occupied, and arranged in one large and light glazed case, which exhibits them to the greatest advantage,—a mode of arrangement for the suggestion and execution of which the Society is indebted to the Secretary.*
A specimen of Brain coral, (Meeandrina cerebriformis,) pre- sented by R. Hatfeild, Esq., has proved the source of an ex- tremely valuable addition to the foreign Conchological cabinet, its interior being found, on examination, to be occupied by a colony of perforating bivalve molluscs, including examples of at least five distinct genera. Mr. James Backhouse has liberally per- mitted the Keeper of the Museum to select from his extensive Australian collection several recent sponges, which help to illus- trate in a most instructive manner the nature of the fossil zoophytes of the Flamborough chalk.
The Curator of Botany has arranged the collection of Pyrenean plants formed by Mr. Spruce, and purchased by the Society ; and he has enriched the British herbarium by the liberal dona- tion, from his own private collection, of about fifty species, which were not already in the Museum. The collection of living plants in the Conservatory has received several additions ; but the only one which calls for particular notice is the contribution of several additional species of Orchidaceze, and selected seeds, presented by the Hon. East India Company, through Dr. Forbes Royle.
The Library has continued to be enriched by the transmission, by several of the learned Societies of Britain, of their Transac- tions. Among these the Council have much pleasure in men- tioning the first part of the volume containing the Memoirs communicated to the Archeological Institute at its meeting in York, and the elaborate Map of Roman Yorkshire, by Charles
* The value of this splendid acquisition to the Museum has been greatly en- hanced by Mr. Read’s subsequent presentation of his cabinet of British eggs.
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Newton, Esq.; both presented by the central Committee of the Institute. ‘The Meteorological and Magnetical Observations of Lieut.-Col. Sabine at St. Helena, and of Sir T. M. Brisbane at Makerstoun, and the Astronomicai Results obtained at the Cape of Good Hope by Sir J. W. Herschel, and at Edinburgh by the late T. Henderson, Esq., have also been received. Mr. Hatfeild has presented to the Library a splendid Atlas of Plates on Human Anatomy, published at Venice, by the brothers Cal- dani, in 1801—13, in 4 vols, folio, with accompanying letter- press. Several works on Geology and Natural History, of great value and utility, (including Sir R. I. Murchison’s “ Silurian System,” Professor Owen’s ‘‘ Odontography,” and two costly and valuable works of M. Agassiz,) have been purchased by the Council, an opportunity having presented itself of obtaining them on very advantageous terms.
The Council have great satisfaction in alluding to the com- pletion of Mr. Browne’s valuable and beautiful work on York Minster. The approaching completion of Mr. Gould’s splendid work on the Birds of Australia, as well as Mr. Gray’s on the Genera of Birds, will relieve the Society from a heavy annual expenditure in this department.
The Laboratory has been exclusively employed, as of ike years, in the instruction of the pupils of the York School of Medicine. It is reported by the Curator to be in good working order. In the Observatory, Mr. Newman has continued his observations of the sun’s transit for the purpose of keeping the correct time, and the clock’s error has been, as usual, carefully noted for the information of the public.
The Curator of Meteorology has furnished the following table and remarks, containing his observations on the weather at York during the past year :—
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REPORT ‘OF THE
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER FOR 1847—YORK.
Sept. | 29°98
| 30°47 | 29°13 || 1°14 |'59°5 |42°9 |51°2 |54°6 68/31
11 | Westerly. 15 | Westerly.
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=) a) Jan. | 29°88 | 30°45 | 28°80 || 1°48 || 38/31°5|34°7|35°2 47/19] 19 | 14 | S. E. Feb. | 29°91 | 30°41 | 29°25 || 1°39 |'41°4/99°1|35'2/38 [53/18] 20 | 15 | Westerly. Mar. | 30°03 | 30°65 | 29°47 || 1°35 we 33°7|41°0 |41 |60/18} 10| 16 | SS E.& N. W. April| 29°78 | 30°15 | 29°32 || 1.82 so 35°0 |43°6 |45°1 61/25) 10 | 16 | Westerly. May | 29°90 | 30°60 | 29°40 || 3°09 | 62°8/45°1 |53°9|52° (80/33) 0} 19 | S. W. June | 29°98 | 30°61 | 29°50 || 2°47 | 66°2149°4 |57°S |58°1 80/41} 0 | 20] N. W. July | 30°12 | 30°49 | 29°80 || °77 ||74°6 154-7 |164°7|60 (8447; 0} 6| N. & W. Aug. | 30°07 | 30°52 | 29°58 || 1°14 | 68°7 |50°9 |59°8 [59°6 84/36] 0 2 0
Oct. | 29°97 | 30°39 | 29°33 || 1°95 54°5 |41°9 |48°2 47°9 61 34 16 | Southerly. | Nov. | 29°93 | 30°48 | 29°00 || 1°90 ||49°6 |38°4 |44.0|41°3 ° 29| 5 | 16 | Southerly. Dec. | 29°80 | 30°38 | 28°29 || 3°54 ||43°5 36°2 40°0|39°6 54 291 10 | 16 | S. B. 29°94 22°04 47°8|47°7 | 76 | 180 COMPARATIVE PREVALENCE OF WINDS. N. Ss. E. Ww. N.E. N.W. S.E. S.W. Days .. 24. 22, 21. 68 40 56- 71 63 = 365. Mean height of the mercury at 9 morning 29°9560. 5 \ Ditto ein Seca BOCES Se es 3 afternoon 29°9449.
Mean daily depression at.... 8 afternoon “O11.
Mean height for the year................ 29-9504.
Mean temperature for the year 1847 47°'8.
Ditto'forasiyears}! . ia ae 477.
It will be seen that the year 1847 has presented almost an exact mean of tempe-
rature. A few anomalies of excess and deficiency in some of the morths appear to have balanced each other.
The temperature of April was 1:5 below the mean, and has not been so Jow since the year 1838. That of May was on the other hand 1:8 above the mean. September was 3'4 below the mean, and colder than it has been since 1836. The temperature
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of July, however, more than compensated for this deficiency, having been 4:6 above the mean, and warmer than it has been in the last 17 years.
The rain of the year has been 2°1 inches below the mean. July, August, and September were remarkably dry. The total for the three months was only 3:05 inches, the mean amount being 7°36. May and December, on the contrary, had an excess of 2°4 inches above their usual mean.
A remarkable depression of the mercurial column occurred at 11 P. m. on the 6th of December, the height being only 28-293, thermometer attached 54°. This depression was also noticed coincidently as follows, viz. :—
LLU Dag hy EERIE tee) AN 28:20 Cockermouth .............. 28.07 CRWOLE WE clstedivlacceiecees « 28°15 Wigton fie. Beas 28°27 MOP ae io cc: we cies) soi tee ieee pais 28°29 Ona) a vols crete twee lere. tie 28°35 COTE: (GUS aaa eae ieee 28°53 WOE eco Oa! oncete se euel eo atsietorale's 28°72 Halamouthy 0. a5 Sf ceay e 28°88
A splendid display of Aurora occurred on the 24th of October, an accurate account of which, by Professor Phillips, may be found in the “ Athenzeum” for the 30th of that month.
Communications have been received of the amount of rain fallen in the year at
RIOTIORBLEE L 0 nveisin(s:e speistis,c70ie)s 23°190 inches. PROM WOPGI Cals seraicle's elece sleictare 20°02 -,, At Kendal the amount was 52°19 inches, and at Keswick 58°28.
The Gardens continue to afford increased attraction to stran- gers, and enjoyment to the Members and their families, as each year’s vigorous growth of the trees and shrubs renders more manifest the skill and taste with which the general plan of the grounds, and the laying out of the plantations, were conceived and executed by Sir J. Nasmyth.
The want of success which, from various causes, has’ attended the Horticultural Exhibitions in the Museum Gardens for some years past, induced the Council, with the full concurrence of the Horticultural Committee, to suspend for the present such exhi- bitions ; being of opinion that in the existing state of the Society’s finances, and with the claims still pressing upon them, they were not justified in risking so large a portion of its
» Tevenue.
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Since the last Annual Meeting, the Society has had to deplore the loss by death of several of its oldest and most valued Mem- bers. ‘To the memory of one of them, Mr. Copsie, the Council have already had occasion to pay a passing tribute, when acknowledging the last of his many acts of zealous and effective benevolence to the Society. The Society has lost also its early, steadfast, and ever liberal Patron, the late venerable Archbishop of this Province, by whose hands was laid the foundation stone of this Museum, and who was permitted by Divine Providence to witness the prosperity and usefulness of this and many other valuable Institutions, over which he had extended his powerful protection.
The erection of the bust of Dr. Beckwith in the Hall of the Museum, has afforded the Council an opportunity of commemo- rating his very liberal bequest to the Society by an inscription on the pedestal. They have recorded in the same manner their sense of the valuable and long continued services of their first President, the Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt.*
The Treasurer’s account for the past year, which accompanies this Report, exhibits in a clear and distinct manner the present state of the Society’s finances. The debtor side of the balance sheet shows an increase of income over that of the preceding year (1846) under several heads ; although two items of ordi- nary income, viz., the admissions at the gates, and receipts from the swimming bath, have not equalled the corresponding amounts in the account for 1846. The total amount of income is increased by two items which must be considered as extraor- dinary revenue, viz., Mr. Copsie’s legacy, producing (after pay- ment of duty) £90; and the subscription of £100. 10s. 6d., received towards fitting up the Hospitium.
* The following are the inscriptions :—
GVLIELMO * VERNON * HARCOVRT : S: R: S- OB + ASSIDVA* IN + SE * MERITA SOC: PHIL: EBOR* POS: A‘D* MDCCCXXXIII-
STEPHANO * BECKWITH * M‘D- OB - EGREGIAM * ERGA : SE ‘ MVNIFICENTIAM SOC + PHIL: EBOR: POS: A'D: MDCCCXLY:
COUNCIL FoR 1847. 17
It is satisfactory to observe that the ordinary expenditure of the Society is more than covered by the ordinary income. But, on the General Account for the year, the balance against the Society has been increased by £207. 11s. 10d., being, on the Ist of January, 1848, £473. 5s. This increase of debt, however, has not been incurred during the past year. Several trades- men’s bills, relating to the alterations in the Mint Yard in 1846, and two accounts connected with the erection of the new hot- houses during the same year, not having been received in proper time, were not included in the account presented at the last Annual Meeting. Had these bills, amounting together to £327. 19s., been paid when due, they would have swelled the balance against the Society in the account for 1846, to. £593. 12s. 2d. They are now paid, and included in the balance-sheet now presented ; and are the cause of the apparent increase of the Society’s debt. There are also several bills included in the ordinary expenditure of 1847, which ought to have been presented and paid in 1846. Looking to the liabili- ties of the Institution, it must be borne in mind that the Society is under engagement to pay £350. for the purchase of the house adjoining the gateway of St. Leonard’s, the site of which will be required for the projected alterations, for completing which a - considerable further outlay will be called for. About £100. will also be required for the further restoration of the Hospitium, now in progress. It is therefore probable that the Society is, or will be ere long, under liabilities to the amount of about £1000. Nevertheless, the Council confidently hope that, by strict economy, a considerable surplus revenue may be insured for the gradual liquidation of this debt, and the Society be still retained in a position to employ itself with energy and perseverance in accomplishing the purposes for which it was constituted.
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THE
‘TREASURER OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
IN ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1847.
Dr. 1847. EF ay A Annual Subscriptions and Arrears 550 0 0 Admission of New Members .... 90 0 0 Composition in lieu of Annual Subscriptions ...... Gwebaside ds 60 0 0 Ladies’ Subscriptions and Keys of the Gates <2. jcceeccevee epbike.d) ca ee, Money received at the Gate...... 148 7 9 TRADIR 650i. eeloien Boer ree Be 4014 2 Gas for Evening Meetings ...... 110 0 Swimming Bath (deducting Ex- penses ....... Sbihie'vas RS 8118 5 Legacy........ iiiwiea saree Conse os. Sa a G Subscriptions towards fitting up the Hospitium ........... -.--- 10010 6 Permanent Debt, viz.: Six Members at £50 each...... 300 0 0 : 1545 6 10 Balance overdrawn Messrs. Swann, Clough and Co., De. cember 31st, 1847 .......... 473 5 0 Audited by us, January 31st, 1847, W. GRAY, JOHN FORD, £2018 11 10
1847.
Permanent Debt, viz.: Six Members at £50 each...... Balance overdrawn Messrs. Swann, Clough and Co., De- cember 3lst, 1846.... Crown Rent............ Corporation Rent (one and a half-years) .... 43 13 ‘siowtecilon oper nae Gate Keeper............ 20 0 Keeper of the Museum..150 0 Clerk and Collector .... 20 0 Interest ..... patiewe hous ae Sub-Curator, on Account of Salary, Wages, &c....335 12
Sundry Bills, viz.: Purchase of Specimens., 87 13 Purchase of Books ....105 7 Coals and Gas.......... 26 8 Mrs. Buckley, Mason ..234 19 J. Cluderay, Joiner ....180 14 W. Hartley, Glazier .... 42 14 H. Sotheran, Printerand Stationer ........ POAT. | IN f J. Brown, Painter ...... 40 9 J. Walker and Mrs. Ward, Ironmongers ........ 14 8 N. Turner, Plasterer .... 38 3 J. Thompson, Joiner.... 10 9 Sundry Small Accounts 30 13
aococoans &
Cr.
Bit a Ae er
300 0 0
265 13 2
591 0 6
861 18 2
£2018 11 10
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ANALYSIS OF DISBURSEMENTS.
ORDINARY EXPENSES.
Rents, Rates, &e. : &... si dae Ein &e de Rent to the Crown .....cecceceseecs Pe heer woysye! e's 1: ORE Rent to the Corporation, one and a half years ...... 4313 9 Rates and Taxes ............. aieshe th olert aia! cia ole.e' ls 8.9 8 Insurance and Water Rent ........ccccrccecccces 11 0 0 64 3 I Salaries and Wages: Keeper of the Museum .............. SRS Se aah 150 0 0 UO MEIUREE ie ciare stra sd isla s eooielel cSt ctelare elas’ els eo vo 100 0 0 RMIMGNIE ertates acest TORE cialcw Wisin: le s1e elec diecic's el crevess 20 0 0 FiOUMO BS OODOR wala are < atetarale wid'a'e Uierefe oi c.cie's bie ol seiers's 20 0 0 Labourers ..... Ga ei aes Sete as Rtaisteiciaicteiere cals eels 145 14 0 Occasional Labourers .............. Dire Velale esis avd 2 3 3 Clerk and Collector ....... daish ova bi ite ich gral oplaidialhta -) 020 10-0 Attendant in Hospitium .......... viujaieleeme eueedavdy dance 459 9 9 Interest to Bankers for being overdrawn .............. 15 14 0 Museum, Gardens, Grounds, &e. : Painting and General Repairs .............-. oF RO CEO Go Purchase and Preparation of Specimens .......... 114 4 10 MOOSEXVINOTY. clot ccs ceisisleccccw ue aisle cocees Sscens 73-9 217 4 6 Library: Books and Binding ........s-seeeeeceees ot BR 105 7 0 Incidentals : Printing, Advertising, and Stationery ..... A ees 53 11 6 Coals, Gas, Coke ..........- deh, itn wale’ pile sare $114 4 Postages, Carriage, and Sundries ...... es er dieka ie 2122 & 4 106 18 4 968 16 8 EXTRAORDINARY EXPENSES. Alterations in the Mint Yard, 1846 .................. 262 18 1 On Account of New Hot-houses, 1846 ..............2.. 65 O11 Fitting up the Hospitium ...........++ Sralefela acaisisicitie-e 12819 IL Drew CGM aig citer cain sncclveWae sud chvamceve'se dese) RL Seae 478 9 1 £1447 5 9
BQ
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RESOLUTIONS
PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEB. 1, 1848.
1. That the Report of the Council be adopted, and printed for the use of the Members.
2. That the thanks of the Society be given to the Vice-Presidents and Members of the Council retiring from office, and to the Treasurer, Secretary, and Curators, for their valuable services.
3. That the Council be empowered, on certain days to be selected by them during the the present year, to permit free admission to all persons to the Museum and Gardens; the mode of admission to be regulated by the Council.
4, That the Council be empowered to admit Strangers during the present year, at the usual rates of payment.
5. That the Council be authorised to admit to the Museum and Gardens, as temporary subscribers, any occasional Visitors to York, not residing in the County, at the rate of One Pound for four months for themselves and their families; but that in no case shall such privilege be granted for a longer period than twelve months
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MEMBERS
ELECTED SINCE FEBRUARY, 1847.
1847.
Thomas Gibson Hartley, York.
John Bell, M.P., Thirsk. *
Rey. Charles Hawkins, Canon Residentiary, York. John Wilson, Clifton, York.
William Webster, Heworth Moor, York.
William Sotheran, York.
John Meek, jun., York.
Joseph Waddington Graves, York.
JANUARY AND Fresruary, 1848.
Henry Brown, High Ousegate, York. Charles Potter, York.
William Cooper, York.
John Harland Fox, York.
William Monkhouse, York.
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COMMUNICATIONS
To THE
MONTHLY MEETINGS,
1847.
Marcu 2.—Rosert Davis, F.S8.A.—On the Statistics of York in the 13th and 14th Centuries.
Aprit 6.—CuHartes Newton, M. A.—Letter to John Phillips, F.R.S., on the British and Roman Antiquities of Yorkshire, and on a Map of Roman Yorkshire.
Epw. Cuarteswortu, F.G.8.—Notice of the occurrence, near Tadcaster, of Larus Rossii.
James Yates, F. R.8., &c.—Notice of Zamia Gigas, a fossil plant occurring on the N.E. coast of Yorkshire.
May 4.—W. C. Winuramson, M.R.C.S.—On the Fossil Vegeta- ble Heads from Runswick Bay, supposed to belong to Zamia Gigas.
June 1.—Rev. J. Kenrick, M. A.—On the Sarcophagus of M. Verecundus Diogenes, and the Civil Administration of Roman York.
Rev. C. WELLBELOvED—On the hoard of Stycas discovered in March last, in the parish of Bolton Percy.
Noy. 2.—JoHN Pururs, F. R. 8.—On the Aurora Borealis of the night of October 25th, 1847, as observed at York.
W. L. Newman, F.R.A.8.—On the Solar Eclipse of the 9th of
October, 1847, principally in reference to the determination of the longitude of York.
Dec. 7.—Epw. Cuarteswortn, F.G.S.—On the Mineral Condi- tion and Affinities of the Zoophytes of the Flamborough Chalk.
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DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM,
1847.
GEOLOGY.
Thos. Allis, Esq. ...--..000.. A series of choice Fossils. from the Lias of Gloucestershire.
E. T. Artis, Esq. ............ Natica from the Oolite.
James Backhouse, Esq. ... Fossils from Van Dieman’s Land.
Thos. Barstow, Esq........... Fine crystal of Selenite, from the Lias near Oakham, Rutlandshire.
Captain James Cole......... Humerus of Ichthyosaurus, with other fossils, from the Lias of Whitby.
Mrs. Thos. Egerton .,........ Pleuracanthus levissimus Agassiz, and other fossils.
Mr. David Graham ......... Fishes from the Caithness Slate, Thurso.
Randall Hatfeild, Esq....... Fine piece of double refracting spar.
E. T. Higgins, Esq. ........ Seventy casts in plaster of the jaws of Ceratodus, from originals in the ca- binet of the donor.
Henry Milner, Esq. ......... Siliceous and Volcanic products from Iceland. J. R. Pease, Esq., Teeth of Ptychodus, from the Chalk (Hessle Wood) near Hull. Wm. Moberly, Esq.,
(Sandsend_) Fossil Wood from the Lias near Whitby.
Dr. Murray, (Scarbro’)..... Fine example of the remains of Gyros- teus mirabilis Agassiz, from the Lias at Whitby.
Wu. Procter, Esq. ...«..... An Ammonite with a produced lip, from the Oxford Clay of Wiltshire.
24 GEOLOGY.
Richard Ripley, Esq. ...... Avicula cygnipes, from the Lias, Whitby. J. F. Whittell, Esq. .......... Specimen of Plagiostoma, from the Lias near Upper Helmsley.
PURCHASED.
Very perfect head of Ichthyosaurus, and head of a Teleosaurus, from the Lias near Whitby. (See Report, pp. 10, 11.) Fine specimen of Asterias, from the Oolite near Pickering.
ZOOLOGY.
Thomas Allis, Esq. .......... Skull of an adult Mandrill, and eleven Birds.
James Backhouse, Esq. ... Some very interesting Sponges, with other objects of Natural History, from Van Dieman’s Land.
Dr. Battersby, (Torquay) Balanus Cranchii, and other British Shells (in exchange. )
Mrs. Barker .................. Specimen of the little Woodpecker.
John W. Clough, Esq. ...... Specimen of Locustella migratoria, taken alive on the Wolds.
J, 8. Dunean, Esq. (Oxford) Cast in wax of the bones of the foot, and one in plaster of the head, of the Dodo, from the originals in the Ash- molean Museum.
Randall Hatfeild, Esq....... Two fine specimens of Brain Coral.
John Leckenby, Esq., A large variety of Donax anatinum,
(Scarbro’ ) and specimen of Nucula Polii (in ex- change.)
John Lee, Esq., L. L. D., (Hartwell, Aylesbury ) T. Meynell, jun., Esq. ....... Specimen of Bulla hyalina and other
rare British Shells (in exchange.)
Peter Middelton, Esq. ....... A Hornet's Nest, built in his garden at
Two Birds, new to the Collection.
Stockeld Park. Rev. J. K. Miller, An adult specimen of the Black-throat- ( Walkeringham) ed Diver (Colymbus Arcticus Pen-
nant), shot on the Trent.
ZOOLOGY. 25
Mr. Edward Mortimer, A live Frog, presenting the remarkable (Birdsall) monstrosity of having six legs.
Rey. George Rudston Read Specimen of the little Woodpecker, shot at Howsham.
Two remarkable Sponges from the West Indies, and specimens of Fan Coral.
Wm. Rudston Read, Esq... Collection of British Birds’ Eggs, with the cabinet.
Specimen of the Glaucous Gull from Iceland.
Wm. Reed, Esq. ............ Curious small Fishes and Crustacea from China, with a very singular bone from the throat of the Howling Monkey.
Scarborough Philosophical ) Bulla Cranchii, and other British Shells
Society... ...csesesevececees ) (in exchange.) Mr. Tessyman, (Scarbro’) Eggs of the Penguin, found in guano at Ichaboe. Mrs. Thos. Walker, British specimens of Ianthina com- (Doncaster) munis.
Edw. Wilson, Esq. (Tenby) Six Birds, new to the Collection.
PURCHASED.
Fine specimen of Cleidotherus, from Swan River. Black Swan, from Australia.
BOTANY.
TO THE HERBARIUM.
O. A. Moore, Esq. «........ About fifty species of British Plants, not previously in the Society’s collection.
TO THE GARDEN AND CONSERVATORY.
Hon. East India Company, : F (by Dr. Forbes Boyle) Collection of Orchidaceous Plants.
Mr. D. Smith, (Botanic Garden, Hull) John Wood, Esq., Collection of Seeds, distributed by the (London ) Horticultural Society.
46 Species of Plants.
26 MISCELLANEOUS.
ANTIQUITIES AND COINS.
Joseph Dent, Esq., se The Monumental Stone inscribed to
Sheriff: ..scetpasvavs encase Lucius Duccius Ruffinus. (See Re- port, page 8.) Mr. Henry Brown, Spur, Stirrup, &c., of early medizval (High Ousegate) date, found in the excavations in Parliament Street, York. Mr. H. Chapman ......+0... Small Roman fictile Vase. DIR AINA css oo sctsnpnssssee obp A Saxon Sceatta of Eadbert, king of Northumbria, a.p. '737—758. F. B, Hacket, Esq. ......... Coin of Gallienus, 3rd brass, found in
his garden in Bootham, York.
H. Tuke Holmes, Esq....... Large fragment of a Roman Bowl of Samian ware, found some years since in York.
Mr. Joseph Mawson......... Sceatta of Archbishop Albert.
R. Nicholson, Esq. ......... Roman Mortar, found in the railway cutting near Ulleskelf.
Fred. Oates, Esq., (Lincoln) Coin of Vespasian, 2d brass.
John Prest, Esq. ............ Medisval Seal, found in his garden without Micklegate Bar, York; de- vice a Pelican “in its piety,” with the legend svM. PELICANVS. DEI.
W. Rudston Read, Esq. .... Small Brass Coin, probably British.
Rey. Christopher Sykes .... Northumbrian Styca of Ethelred, one of the hoard lately discovered at Bolton
Percy. Colonel G. H. Thompson... Forty Stycas from the same hoard. Rey. C. Wellbeloved ...... Ancient British Silver Coin.
Lord Wenlock ............... Fifty-seven English Coins, being a por- tion of a hoard lately found at Deigh- ton, (see Report, page 9.) William Whincopp, Esq.,) Egyptian lamp; figures of Egyptian ( Woodbridge, Suffolk) deities in glazed porcelain ; Etruscan vessels ; celts ; stone and flint adzes ; Roman lamp, found at Colchester ; &ce., &c., (in exchange.)
ANTIQUITIES AND COINS. 27
John Wood, Esq., (London) Roman or Roman-British Vase, found about four feet below the surface at Scoreby, near Stamford Bridge.
PURCHASED.
About 3000 Stycas, part of the hoard lately discovered at Bolton Percy. (See Report, page 9.) Curious medieval Key, found near Stamford Bridge.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. Jackson, (Scarbro’) Specimens of a pellicle presenting beau- tiful iridescent colours, formed on the surface of molten lead at some works
_ in Cumberland. J. E. Wilkinson, Esq., A long-barrelled Pistol, apparently of (Potterton Lodge) very early date, found in the roof of Kiddel Hall, near Aberford.
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LIBRARY.
BOOKS, &c. PRESENTED.
Presented by direction of) Observations made at the Magnetical the British Government and Meteorological Observatory at St. Helena, by Lieut.-Colonel Sabine, vol. i, for 1840—43. . Royal Astronomical Society Greenwich Astronomical Observations for 1845, 4to. Duke of Northumberland Astronomical Observations made at the (by the Author ) Cape of Good Hope by Sir J. W. Herschel, in 1834—88. Royal Society of Edinburgh Transactions of the Society, vol. xvi, parts 1, 2, and 3; and vol. xvii, parts 1 and 2, containing the Makerstoun Magnetical and Meteorological Ob- servations for 1841, 2, and 3.—4to., Edin. 1845—7. Proceedings of the Society, 1846—7, Nos. 28, 29, 8yo. Royal ita Dhmsia Edin- ) Edinburgh Astronomical Observations, vol. vi, for the year 1840. PR ae ae Report of the Association for 1846. Archeological Institute of ) Memoirs illustrative of the History and Great Britain and Ireland} Antiquities of the City and County of York, communicated to the Meet- ing of the Institute held at York in July, 1847; part 1, 8vo. Map of British and Roman Yorkshire, prepared under the direction of the Central Committee of the Institute, by Charles Newton, Esq., M.A. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic ) The Society's Fourteenth Annual Re- Bocloty: .......sebcsewenss 4 port. Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester ...
British Association for fn)
} The Society's Memoirs, vol. vii, part 2.
LIBRARY. 29
Society of Antiquaries, New-
castle-upon-Tyne ....... ae
Zoological Society of London Proceedings of the Society for 1846—7. Report of the Society for 1846.
Archwologia Aliana, vol. iv, part 1st.
John Brown, Esq., Lithograph of a Vertebra dentata of the (Stanway, Colchester ) Fossil Elephant in the collection of the donor. Edward Charlesworth, Esq. London Geological Journal, Nos. 2 & 3, (duplicate copy.) re D, Graham 05.5058. Hekla og dens sidste Udbrud (an account
of the eruption of Hecla, 2d Sept., 1845) by J.C. Schythe. 8vo., Copen- hagen, 1847.
Wm. Gray, Esq. ....00..000 Woodward's Catalogue of Fossils, 12mo. 1729. Randall Hatfeild, Esq....... Caldani Icones Anatomic, Venetiis,
1801—13; 4 vols. elephant folio plates, and 4 vols. 4to. letter-press. Karsten Handbuch des LEisenhiitten- kunde (Manual of the art of manu- facturing Iron) 4 vols. 8yvo., Berlin, 1827. Captain W. Hotham, R.N.,) Account of the Volcanic Island which (the Author) appeared in the Mediterranean in 1831. Luke Howard, Esq., Barometrographia, or the Variation of the (the Author ) Barometer in the Climate of Great Britain, &c. ; part 1, for 1815—18. T. Meynell, jun., Esq. ...... Derham’s Select Remains and Life of John Ray, 8vo., London 1760. Historie of Plants, translated from the > Dutch of Dodoens, 8yvo., 1578. Signor G. Michelotti, Saggio storico dei Rizopodi caracteristici (the Author ) } dei terreni sopracretacei, (from the Memoirs of the Italian Society of
Sciences) ; 4to. Modena, 1841. Giles Munby, Eszq., Flore de l'Algérie; ou Catalogue des
(the Author ) Plantes indigénes du Royaume d’Al- ger, &c.; 8yo., Paris, 1847.
30 LIBRARY.
Sir R. I. Murchison, Memoir on the Silurian rocks of Swe- (the Author ) den, (from Journal of Geol. Society)
and a brief Review of the Sedimen- tary rocks of Cornwall, (from Trans. of Roy. Geol. Soc. of Cornwall.)
Mr. R. Spruce ss....42...66. Three Memoirs on Botanical subjects.
T. W. Wilson, Esq. ......... The York Herald Newspaper, Nos. 1 to 157, (1790—92), bound in 1 vol. folio.
BOOKS PURCHASED.
Murchison’s (Sir R. I.) Silurian System, 2 vols. 4to. and separate Map. London, 1839.
Owen’s (Professor) Odontography, a Treatise on the Comparative Anatomy, &c. of the Teeth; 150 plates, royal 8vo. Lond. 1841.
Hawkins’ (T.) Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, (1834) ; and “ Book of the Great Sea Dragons” (1840) bound in 1 vol. folio, numerous plates.
Sowerby’s (G. B. jun.) Conchological Manual ; 500 coloured plates, 8vo. London, 1839.
Yarrell’s (W.) History of British Birds, with 520 wood engravings ; 3 vols. and supplement, 8vo. London, 1843.
Turton’s (W.) Manual of the Land and Fresh-water Shells of the British Isles ; new edition by J. E. Gray, 8vo. London, 1840.
Agassiz (L.) Nomenclator Zoologicus; (a Catalogue of the Genera of living and fossil Animals) 8 fasciculi published.
Monographies d’Echinodermes vivans et fossiles ; 4 liv- raisons, avec Atlas. Echinodermes fossiles de la Suisse, lere et 2de parties,
4to. Neuchatel, 1839.
Pictet (F. J.) Traité Elémentaire de Paléontologie; 4 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1844.
Nyst (P. H.) Description des Coquilles et des Polypiers fossiles des terrains tertaires de la Belgique ; 4to. Bruxelles, 1844.
Account of the Scientific Societies and Publishing Clubs of Great Britain, by. A. Hume, L.L.D. 8yo, 1847.
LIBRARY. 31
SERIAL WORKS SUBSCRIBED FOR.
Gould’s Birds of Australia, fol. col. plates. Gray and Mitchell’s Genera of Birds, fol. col. plates, parts 35 to 43. Doubleday and Hewitson’s Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, fol. col. plates, parts 5 to 16. Sowerby’s Thesaurus Conchyliorum, 8vo. col. plates, part 8. Waterhouse’s Natural History of Mammalia, 8vo. col. plates, parts 14 to 19. Browne’s History of York Minster, 4to., parts 31 & 32. (completed ) Churton’s Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire. Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis, or Geology of the Sewalik Hills in the North of India, by Dr. Falconer and Major Cautley. Parts 1 to 6 of Illustrations, large folio, and part 1 of Letterpress, 8vo. Forbes and Hanley’s British Mollusca, 8yo. col. plates. Publications of the Ray Society, viz. Burmeister on the Organization of Trilobites, royal 4to. plates, 1846. Alder and Hancock on British Nudibranchiate Mollusca, parts 2 and 3, 4to. Oken’s Elements of Physiophilosophy, 8vo. Reports on Zoology, for 1843—4 ; 1 vol. 8vo., 1847.
PERIODICALS.
London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, monthly. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, monthly.
The Phytologist, monthly.
London Geological Journal.
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Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
ANNUAL REPORT
TOR
MDCCCXLVITI.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE COUNCIL
OF THE
YORKSHIRE
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
FOR
MDCCCXLVIII.
PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
FEBRUARY 6, 1849.
1849.
TRUSTEES
THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT.
CHARLES WILLIAM, EARL FITZWILLIAM. THOMAS PHILIP, EARL DE GREY.
HON. axp VERY REV. HENRY HOWARD, D. D. SIR WILLIAM LAWSON, BART., F.S. A. FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ., F. S. A.
ROBERT DENISON, ESQ.
REV. WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, F. RB. S. RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
PATRONESSES
Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. H. R. H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT.
PATRONS.
THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. EARL OF CARLISLE.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F. R. 8. EARL OF TYRCONNEL,:F. R. 8S. LORD FEVERSHAM.
LORD WENLOCK.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1849.
PRESIDENT :
Earzu FirzwitiiaM.
- VICE-PRESIDENTS : Tuomas Barstow. Francis CHotme.ey, F. §. A. Rosert Daviess, F. S. A. Rev. Wittram Vernon Harcourt, F. R. S. Rev. Jonn Kenrick, M. A. ANDREW LAWSON. Tue Lorp Mayor or York. Witiiam Rupston Reap. Rev. CHARLES WELLBELOVED.
TREASURER :
Tuomas Meynet., Jun., F. L. S.
COUNCIL: Elected 1846. ...JouHn Forp. Elected 1847. ...GrorGE DopsworTH. Wituiam Gray, F.G.S. Rev. Witiiam Hey. Joun Puuiups, F, R. 8. Elected 1848....GrorcE Gotpiz, M. D. Epwarp Haitstong, F. S. A. Rev. Rosert Bryan Cooxe, F.G.S. Elected 1849....Oswatp ALLEN Moore. Rev. Tuomas Myers. Tuomas PRICE. Henry Rosinson.
SECRETARIES :
Tuomas Merynett, Jun., F. L. 8S. Tuomas Henry TRAVIS.
6 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM:
EpwarD CHARLESWoRTH, F. G. S.
HONORARY CURATORS :
ANTIQUITIES . . . . ... Rev. C. WELLBELOVED. Borany .«. . . . +. »«, Oswatp ALLEN Moore. CoMPARATIVE ANATOMY . . THOMAS ALLIs. LapornaTony oe. os. os Te ee
LipRaARBY . . . .) wu». GEoRGE Gotpre, M. D. MeTEoROLOGY . . . . . . JOHN Forp.
OpsERVATORY . .. . . . W. L. Newman, F.R.A.S.
SUB-CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM & GARDENS:
Henry BaInes.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
TO THE
Annual fleeting.
A prominent place has been occupied in the Reports of the Council for the last two years, by the progress of the improve- ments consequent on the Society’s acquisition of the remains of St. Leonard’s Hospital. It was stated in the last Report that owing to the undetermined state of the plans of the City Council with regard to the adjoining streets, these improvements had not been completed. During the past. year, however, the boundary and levels having been decided upon, and the unsightly buildings which encumbered the ruins of St. Leonard’s Hospital cleared away, a substantial iron fence and gate have been erected along the line of Museum Street, which, by the liberality of the Corporation, now forms the boundary of the Society’s grounds.
This change of boundary involved the necessity of the removal of the Porter’s Lodge; and the Council were anxiously em- ployed in consulting with the Architect on the difficult question of the site and design of a new lodge, when the adjoining freehold house, the property of E. 8. Cayley, Esq., and lately tenanted by Miss Yorke, was offered for sale. It had long been the opinion of several members and zealous friends of the Society, that should an opportunity occur of purchasing this house, it ought not to be lost, from a conviction of the import- ance of its possession to the Society, both with reference to present convenience and future possible improvements. After much negociation, the Council resolved to effect the purchase,
8 REPORT OF THE
the Yorkshire Insurance Company agreeing to advance the required amount on mortgage at five per cent.
Having obtained possession, the Council proceeded to convert a portion of the ground floor of the building into a lodge for the gatekeeper. This was effected at a very trifling cost; and having placed the remainder of the house in tenantable repair, they let it at a rent more than adequate to meet the interest which the Society will be called upon to pay. By obtaining possession of this property, the Society became the tenants, under the Corporation, of the garden attached to the house, and also of the portion of the City Ramparts and Walls extending towards the Water Tower. This will enable the Society to throw open its grounds very advantageously in that direction, and to extend them to what naturally appears their proper boundary. This improvement it is the intention of the Council to carry out without delay; and as the greater portion of the work will be performed by labourers usually in the employment of the Society the cost will not be great. The Council, therefore, conceive that they may justly congratulate the Society on having obtained by this transaction—though paying the full market value of the house—advantages far more than equivalent to the outlay, especially when the saving of the costly erection of a lodge is taken into consideration. The whole of the expenses incurred will be found stated in the Treasurer’s report.
The only other object on which the Society has been called to expend any large sum of money in building, during the past year, is the restoration of the lower portion of the Hospi- tium, which was stated in the last report to be in progress. The work is now completed: the lately ruined portion of the building has been repaired, roofed-in, and glazed, and by the removal of a brick partition, this noble apartment is shown in its original dimensions.
Within this space the large and interesting collection of Roman Altars, Tombs, Monumental Stones, and other relics belonging to the Society, has been duly arranged. The fragments of Saxon, Norman, and English Sculpture likewise, which had long occupied the building in a. very confused state, have been disposed in chronological order, chiefly by the aid of
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Mr. George Goldie, Jun., thus furnishing an interesting series of specimens of the successive periods of medizval art. Since its completion, the Hospitium has been visited by several of our most distinguished Antiquaries, who have unanimously pro- nounced the collection of local Antiquities which it contains, to be the most curious and valuable in the kingdom. The Curator of Antiquities, owing to the state of his health, has not yet com- pleted the arrangement of the collection in the upper apartment. It has not, however, been altogether neglected, and he is looking forward to the time, which he hopes is not far distant, when he shall obtain the aid which Mr. Edward Hailstone, a member of the Council, and an experienced and accurate antiquary, has promised, but which has hitherto been delayed by his profes- sional and other engagements. But he regrets to say that when the articles, now in the cases in the upper room, shall have been properly arranged, many others of great interest, and which ought to be accessible to the members of the Society and visitors, will yet remain locked’ up, in consequence of the want of cases, in which they may be exhibited in due security.
The Donations to this department have not been numerous during the past year; there have been some, however, of an interesting character, which call for special notice.
The Roman Tomb found near the City Walls, and presented to the Society by the Directors of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway, is, the Curator believes, perfectly unique. Rude as it is, and having nothing to indicate its date, the name, or rank of the person whose body was so carefully deposited within it, it possesses considerable value as exhibiting a remark- able variety in the modes of Roman sepulture. To Mr. Allis the Society is indebted for the curious little relic of Gnostic superstition, discovered some time ago near the present railway station. It was slightly noticed by the Curator in his work on Roman York ; but it will now be contemplated with greater interest, in consequence of the light that has been thrown upon a by Mr. Kenrick in his remarks published in the Proceedings of the Society: From Mr. Henry Sotheran, the Society has received a curious and valuable document :—the Compotus of the Abbey of St. Mary, for the year beginning with the first:
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Sunday after the feast of St. Michael, A.D. 1528, and ending with the same Sunday, A.D. 1529. The Curator hopes to be able to present a transcript of this document, or at least, such an abstract of it, as may exhibit the information it conveys concerning the domestic state of the Abbey, at a period so near to the time of its suppression. To Robert Davies, Esq., the Society is indebted for a valuable addition to the Cabinet of Coins ; consisting of 40 silver pennies, groats, &c., of various kings, beginning with Canute, in excellent condition, and of which 20 were struck at York. A valuable present of Roman and medieval remains, found at Lincoln, has also been re- ceived from Mrs. Hutton, of Beverley.
Several members of the Society having expressed a wish to subscribe towards the purchase of a Roman Altar and other interesting relics found during the restoration of the church of St. Dennis in this city, the Council became responsible for the purchase, and they were finally secured at a cost to the Society of £5. 8s. Od. An account of this very curious Altar, by the Curator of Antiquities, will be found in the Proceedings before alluded to. The Society is in possession of the largest collection of Northumbrian Stycas probably in existence, amounting to about 5000, formed from the two great hoards of St. Leonard’s Place, York, and Bolton Percy. The Curator has employed much of his time in arranging these, and in drawing up a rough catalogue of them, a fair transcript of which he hopes, ere long, to lay before the Society.
By means of donations and exchanges, several valuable additions have been made to the Geological Collection. A fine example of the Ichthyosaurus, from Lyme Regis, has been pre- sented by Mr. E. Higgins. This specimen, which is about eight feet in length, has the spinal column ‘complete to the terminal caudal vertebra : it also exhibits the four paddles and the bones of the head in a very instructive manner. Before receiving this donation, the Society possessed only a few detached bones and casts of portions of the skeleton to illustrate this remarkable extinct reptilian type. The Trustees of the British Museum have presented to the Society some of the reptilian and mam- malian Fossils, collected by Capt. Cautley and Dr. Falconer in
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the Tertiary Siwalic range. A selection of these is temporarily displayed in the room appropriated to British Ornithology. In exchange for some duplicates from this collection, Mr. Brown, of Stanway, near Colchester, has given a specimen of the Nau- tilus imperialis, from the London Clay of Essex, and the branch of a tree, perforated by Teredo, from the same formation at Bognor. ‘To the liberality of the Royal College of Surgeons, the Society is indebted for a series of casts of the bones of gigantic birds, which, though now totally extinct, appear to have inhabited, in immense numbers, at no very remote epoch, the Islands of New Zealand. They have been placed in the case containing the recent skeletons of Struthious Birds. The Rev. William Vernon Harcourt has presented an interesting selection of Tertiary Fossils, and specimens of igneous rocks, illustrative of the geology of Madeira, and a large series of rock specimens has also been received through the same gentle- man, from Signor Pastor, of Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, to whom a collection of duplicate British Minerals and Fossils has been sent in return. Mr. Pease, of Hessle, has presented to the Society a series of teeth of the ‘ Ptychodus decurrens” of Agassiz, found in the chalk quarries of that district, being the first recorded occurrence of this remarkable fossil fish in the chalk of Yorkshire.
The Ornithological department has received an important acquisition in a specimen of the Apteryx, brought from New Zealand by Major Wilmot, and purchased from Mr. Graham for the Society by a subscription amongst the Members. Mr. Meynell has undertaken the re-arrangement of the general Orni- thological Collection. The labels for this collection are printed from the carefully digested catalogue prepared by Mr. Gould, and the Secretary has introduced all the known habitats of the birds which this catalogue includes. When the arrangement is completed, the Ornithological collection will combine beauty of display with facility of reference for scientific purposes.*
Miss E. Backhouse, of York, has permitted the Keeper of the Museum to select from the extensive series of Shells, brought
* The Secretary has pleasure in acknowledging the effective assistance which he has received from the Sub-curator, Mr. Baines, in the performance of this duty.
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home by her brother, Mr. James Backhouse, from Australia and New Zealand, a large number of duplicates which were desiderata to the Society’s Collection. A specimen of the Orange Cowrie, a-rare and costly shell, has also been pre- sented to the Society by Miss Wheeler, of Bristol. The foreign Collection has been further augmented, by exchange with the Rev. William Thornton, of Kimbolton, and Mrs. Davies, of St. Leonard’s Place, York. An instructive example of the genus Magilus from the Red Sea, imbedded in coral, was purchased in London during the spring, at a trifling cost. The Society has received from Mr. Joseph Clarke, of Cincinnati, another series of North American land and fresh-water shells. It contains many duplicates which are useful in carrying out the system of exchanges, from which considerable benefits have already been derived. The British Marine Collection has also received several useful additions during the year.
The Collection of Comparative Osteology has been augmented by a specimen of a well developed head of the Blue-faced Mandrill, presented by the Curator of that department. The preparations of the sclerotic bones of birds in this Collection have enabled the Curator, Mr. Allis, to confirm, by additional evidence, the propriety of placing the Dodo amongst the Colum- bidee, in accordance with the recent investigations of Mr. H. Strickland and Dr. Melville, in their work on that extinct bird. Out of seventy species whose sclerotic rings are separately exhibited, three species of Columbide are the only birds which have but eleven separate bones to form the sclerotic ring, this being the precise number met with in the Dodo, and being the smallest number Mr. Allis has ever met with in any bird, with the single exception of the Australian Podargus, in which bird the ring is composed of only one bone.
The Library has continued to receive, by donation, the Tran- sactions of several learned Societies, and some original works have been presented by their authors. In addition to the various periodical publications for which the Society subscribes, three works have been purchased during the year, viz: Mr. H. Strickland and Dr. Melville’s important work on the Dodo, Mr. Cumming’s History of the Isle of Man, and Swainson’s
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Treatise on Shells and Shellfish. Mr. Gould’s splendid work on the Birds of Australia is now completed.
No additions of more than ordinary interest have been made to the Botanical department of the Museum. In the Garden and Hothouse, the Sub-curator has continued his watchful care, and introduced several important improvements, which will ren- der the hothouses of increased interest to the members and visitors. |
The following is the Meteorological Table for the year 1848, as annually furnished to the Society by the Curator of Me- teorology, together with his observations thereon.
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER FOR 1848—YORK.
BAROMETER. RAIN. Hlgle ss ~ } . 3s om =) as ° e/ 2) a2 lel#]212/2 le S)e |) 2 | sisi S| S/o Slee = 4 4 Ele | 2 lig |Slms o Oo o = 4/<|4 oe
Jan. | 80°59 | 29°18 | 29°973) 1°77 | 10 || 36.5) 28-1) 82°83) 52 |15| 25 | S.E. Feb. | 30°46 | 28°70 | 29°553)| 4-22 | 19 || 45-4) 34-7| 40-0) 53 |23,) 9] W. Mar. | 30°21 | 28°66 | 29°615] 3°34 | 23 || 46-6] 35-8| 41-2) 61 |29) 7] N.W. April | 30°19 | 29°34 | 29°805)) 1°42 | 20 || 58-1] 38*1/ 45°6) 66 |27| 7] N.
May. | 80°44 | 29°34 30°068)) 1°12 | 7 || 68-8) 46+1/57°2/79-5 |84 — | S.E. June. | 8()-24 | 29°30 | 29°798)| 7°35 | 21 || 64°7| 49°6) 57-1] 77 |41] —| S.w. July. | 30°56 | 29°15 | 29861) 1°72 | 15 ||68-5| 58-2) 60-8} 84 |40|/ —| W. Aug. | 80°17 | 29°20 | 29°926)) 3-20 | 19 || 64:1) 47-5) 55°8) 78 |[37} — | W. Sept. | 30-46 | 29-27 | 30°015) 4:11 | 11 || 61-8) 46-1) 53-9) 75 |35| — | Ss.
Oct. | 30°80 | 29°39 | 29°773]| 4°62 | 28 || 52-3/41°5| 46-8) 70 |80/ 3] Ss.
Nov. | 80°62 | 29°18 | 29°881)} 1°18 | 10 || 45°7| 34-9/ 40-3] 54 /23} 12 | Ww.
Dec. | 38°50 | 28°70 | 29°894) 2-02 | 14 || 48-5) 35-2) 39-4) 55 (22) 12] SLE.
29-8468)| 36-02 |192 | 47-5 | | 7
COMPARATIVE PREVALENCE OF WINDS. Ne. Be. Be {Walt Neer) MWe, SAB... 18. 2 693806008, 8H BCR = 866.
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Mean height of the mercury at 9 morning 29°8564
Ditto .. .. «2 «. +. 8 afternoon 29:8880 Mean daily depression at .: 8 afternoon 0184 Mean height for the year .. .. .. «. 29°8468 Mean temperature for the year 1848 .. .. 47-5e
“The temperature of 1848 has been almost exactly a mean of 18 years. January was, as usual, the coldest month, and July the hottest. The former month was three degrees below a mean, the latter an exact mean. August was also nearly four degrees below a mean. The rain of 1848 has exceeded the mean by 12 inches. The quantity fallen is 36:02 inches, being more than that of any year since 1832, and probably more than that of any recorded year. The rain of February, March, June, and September, taken collectively, was 240 per cent. above the annual mean of those months. The rain of June (7°35 inches) was more than that of the same month in any one of the last eighteen years: on the contrary, that of November was only 1:18 inches, being less than had fallen in that month in any one year of the above named series. The 17th of October was marked by a heavy fall of snow. The same phenomenon oc- curred on the same day of October, 1843. A magnificent display of auroral light occurred on the 17th of November. This was remarkable for the rapidity of the coruscations and the mag- nificence and depth of colour of the red arch, which, at half- past 9, spanned the heavens from N. E. to S. W.”
The following accounts of the amount of rain fallen in the year have been received : viz.,
DONCASTER of. .220iL. Pes p eae acs 33°85 inches. Kirby Moorside..............- 36°56 _,, BOK WORD Wie iisidrrcddecroddcce BROW. |, SOTHO. isctaeleaciats cates> saunas 1 ii ie
At the Monthly Meetings of the Society, which have been held as usual, several valuable papers have been read. A selec- tion from those relating to the Natural History and Antiquities of Yorkshire has been printed, and will be found in the first part of the Proceedings of the Society, which the Council have the pleasure of laying upon the table.
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During the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society in York, the Museum was honoured by a visit from His Royal Highness Prince Albert, who minutely inspected. the Cabinets of Natural History and the Collection of Antiquities, and who was pleased to express his approbation of the condition in which he found them.
The great influx of visitors on that occasion, and the num- ber of excursion trains during the summer, have caused the Museum and Grounds to be visited by a larger number of Strangers during the past than in any former year, and aug- mented the receipts at the gate beyond any previous experience. The state of the Society’s finances will show how important it is to preserve, undiminished, this source of its income.
The Council have received, with regret, a letter from Robert Davies, Esq., announcing his desire to resign the office of 'Trea- surer, which he has held during a period of eleven years, to the great benefit of the Society. As a mark of the high respect with which the valuable services of Mr. Davies are universally regarded, the Meeting will no doubt gladly accept the proposal of the Council to elect him a Vice-President of the Society for the ensuing year.
The attention of the Council having frequently been called to an abuse which existed, in the unlimited distribution of Orders for the gratuitous admission of strangers to the Museum, a Special Meeting of the Society was summoned to consider the best means of remedying the evil. The result of this appeal was the unanimous resolution of a very numerous meeting, that Members shall be allowed to issue twenty-five orders annually, each order not admitting more than four persons; and it is gratifying to the Council to find, that as far as the system has been tried, it promises in its results to be highly beneficial to the Society. The resolutions passed at that meeting will be found appended to this report.
The proceeds of the Swimming Bath have not quite“equalled those of the two previous years, a circumstance entirely attri- butable to the unfavourable weather during the summer months. A small expense has been found necessary in the dwelling- house appropriated to the bath keeper.
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The unavoidably increased ordinary expenditure conse- quent upon an extension of the grounds, has demanded the strictest economy in the management of the Society’s finances. The Council have therefore steadily refused to sanction any expenditure for the increase of its collections, beyond that for which it was already pledged; preferring to direct atten- tion to the effective arrangement and display of the various departments of the Museum, so as to enable the Members and Visitors to draw from them the full amount of pleasure and in- struction which they are calculated to afford.
The receipts have thus fully equalled the current expenditure of the Society, though they have fallen very far short of the extraordinary expenses of the year. This deficiency was, how- ever, in a great measure anticipated in the report of the Council to the last Annual Meeting, with the exception of the outlay in the purchase of Mr. Cayley’s house.
This excess of expenditure has been met by the loan of £1000 from the Yorkshire Insurance Company, before alluded to, and by the bankers having allowed the Society to overdraw its account during the year to the extent of about £700.
Though the debt of the Society is thus increased, the Council see no reason to be discouraged. They anticipate that the growing taste for Natural History and Antiquities within the county will attract Members to a Society established with a view of encouraging such pursuits, and which has not permitted the quarter of a century of its existence to pass away without leaving some durable monuments of its utility.
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THE - TREASURER OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
IN ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1848.
Dr, INCOME. 1848. £. 8. di Annual Subscriptions and Arrears 47611 0 Admission of New Members .... 105 0 0 Composition in lieu of Annual Subscription ........seeeeeee 20 0 0 Ladies’ Subscriptions and Keys of the Gates *s.0¢ss0ccesnes Lece, "ROIS O Money received at the Gate...... 237 3 6 Bemts ccccceddocddccsdiseceaevece 39 1 (0 Gas for Evening Meetings ...... 110 0 Swimming Bath (deducting ex- PONSCS) “Sic geese ccececevees ary OF Re + Subscriptions towards the pur- chase of Roman Antiquities.. 1912 0 Permanent Debt, viz : Yorkshire Insurance Company ...... --£1000 0 0 Six Members at £50 WEBI 00.0 ccc seescs 3000 0 1300 0 0 2345 14 8 Balance overdrawn Messrs Swann and Co., December 31st, 1848., 1190 13 6 £3536 8 2
1849, Jan. 20. Audited by us, JOHN PREST,
GEORGE DODSWORTH.
Cr. 1848. Permanent Debt, viz ; Six Members at £50 each ...... Balance overdrawn Messrs Swann, Clough and Co., December 31st, 1847 Crown Rent Corporation. Rent...... EMMUTENGO. 55% soscces ee Gatekeeper .......... Keeper of the Museum 150 0 Clerk and Collector.... 23 15 Interest ...... Teccecs 35 10 Sub-Curator on Account of Salary, Wages, &c. 317 3
Sundry Payments:
Purchase of Specimens 51 16 Purchase of Books .... 5118 Coals and Gas 43 17 J. Thompson, Joiner .. 67 4 N. Ackroyd, Mason.... 73 7 Weatherby, Mason .... 215 4 J. Pulleyn, Bricklayer 81 19 J. Graves, Joiner...... 68 4 N. Turner, Plasterer .. 10 12 J. F. Brown, Painter .. 40 0 Noton, Glazier 30 2 G Hope
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and Expenses ...........00. Purchase of Mrs, Wilson's House
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ANALYSIS OF DISBURSEMENTS.
ORDINARY EXPENSES.
Rents, Rates, &c.: Rent to the Crown aes oe one Rent to the Corporation one oon, Rates and Taxes dee one eee Insurance and Water Rent ... eve
Salaries and Wages:
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Sub-Curator .. one eee eee Servants ove eve eve ose Lodge Keeper .. eee eee eee Labourers es one soe oes Occasional Labourers ... eve eee Clerk and Collector .,. ees oon Attendant in Hospitium eee eee Police ... eee abe eee eee
Interest to Bankers for being overdrawn .. Museum, Gardens, Grounds, &e. :
Painting and General Repairs tee
Purchase and Preparation of Specimens
Observatory ae. eee e.e one Library :
Books and Binding ... we Incidentals:
Printing, Advertising, and Stationery
Coals, Gas, and Coke ... aS mee
Postages, Carriages, and Sundries ...
EXTRAORDINARY Purchase of Mrs. Wilson’s House eos Purchase and Repairs of Mr. Cayley’s House Alterations in Museum Street ase ooo Alterations at the Swimming Bath ... eee Restoration of the Hospitium ove eee
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EXPENSES. ose esos. S91 12 eee ee 910 2 ee oa 268 11 eve se. 07 8 eee ee 188 16
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RESOLUTIONS
PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEB. 6ra, 1849.
1, That His Grace the Archbishop of York be requested to become one of the Patrons of the Society.
2. That the Report of the Council be adopted and printed for the use of the Members.
3. That the thanks of the Society be given to the Vice-Presidents and Members of the Council retiring from office, and to the Secretary and Curators for their valuable services.
4. That the special thanks of the Society be given to Robert Davies, Esq., the Treasurer of the Society, on his retirement from office.
5. That the Council be empowered on certain days to be selected by them during the present year, to permit free admission to all per- sons to the Museum and Gardens, the mode of admission to be regulated by the Council.
6. That the Council be empowered to admit Strangers during the present year, at the usual rates of payment.
7. That the Council be authorized to admit to the Museum and Gardens, as temporary subscribers, any occasional Visitors to York, not residing in the County, at the rate of one pound for four months for themselves and families, but that in no case shall such privilege be granted for a longer period than twelve months.
8. That the Council be empowered to authorize the holding one or more Horticultural Meetings in the Society’s grounds during the present year.
RESOLUTIONS
PASSED AT A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING, DEC. dru, 1848.
1. That in future, no Member of the Society shall be allowed to give more than twenty-five written Orders for the Admission of Strangers to the Gardens and Museum of the Society, during the course of any one year; that no Order shall admit more than four persons; and that the Council be directed to see this Resolution carried into effect from and after the first of January, 1849.
2. That in order to give greater encouragement to the Public to visit the Museum and Gardens, the Fee for the Admission of Strangers be reduced from One Shilling to Sixpence, each person, on every Saturday during the year 1849.
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SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS
ELECTED SINCE FEB. 1848.
Jethro Heseltine, York.
Thomas Cabrey, York.
John Jackson, York.
John Wilson, York.
George Hutchinson, York.
Rey. Robert Whytehead, York.
John Close, York.
His Grace the Archbishop of York.
William Mordaunt Edward Milner, M.P., Nun Appleton. Charles Woollons, York.
George Danby, York.
Henry Milner, Retford, Notts.
Edmund T. Higgins, York.
Hon. and Rey. Stephen Willoughby Lawley, Escrick, York. Edward Smallwood, York.
The Venerable Archdeacon Musgrave, Halifuzx.
1849.
Colonel G. H. Thompson, Bolton Hall, Tadcaster. Rev. Gilbert Henderson Philips, Dring-Houses, York. George Beale, York.
John Underwood, York.
Francis Taylor, York.
Rey. Geo. Rudston Read, Sutton-upon-Derwent. William Dove, York.
Wn. Fox Clark, York.
Joseph Braddock, York.
John Bower, York.
William Hudson, York.
Robert Farrer, York. Robert Bollans, York.
William Banks, York.
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COMMUNICATIONS
TO THE
MONTHLY MEETINGS,
1848.
January 4.—Rev. C. WELLBELOVED.—On a Discovery of Silver Coins at Deighton.
Marcu 7.—Pror. Pups, F. R. S., G.S—Thoughts on Antient Metallurgy and Mining in Brigantia and other parts of Britain, sug- gested by a page of Pliny’s Natural History.
ArtTHuR StrickKLAND—On the occurence of Larus minutus in perfect plumage at Bridlington.
May 9.—Epwarp CHARLEsworTH, F. G. S.—On the Remains of extinct Gigantic Birds discovered in New Zealand.
June 6.—Jno. Govutp, F. R. S8.—On the occurrence of Otis McQueenii, Gray, in England.”
Rev. C. Wetipetovep—On some recent additions to the Mu- seum of Antiquities.
Joun Tuurnam, M. D.—Description of an Ancient Tumular Cemetery, at Lamel Hill, near York.
Ocrozer 3.—Rey. W. V. Harcourt, F. R.S.—Observations upon the Tertiary and Igneous rocks of Madeira.
Dec. 5.—Henry Bartnes—On the Musa Cavendishii, in flower in the Society's Stoves,
Joun Forp—On the process employed. by: Mr. Fred. Ransome, of Ipswich, in the Manufacture of Artificial Stone, with General Observations upon the Building Stones of Yorkshire.
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DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM,
1848.
GEOLOGY.
Capt. Henry Aylmer, R.N. Specimens from Gibraltar.
ae pinta Fossils found at Easingwold.
Jno. Brown, Esq., Stanway. Nautilus imperialis, from the London Clay near Walton, Essex, and a re- markably fine example of the Teredo, in fossil wood from the London Clay of Bognor, (in exchange.)
British Museum, Trustees of. Fossil Remains of Mammalia and Rep- tilia, from the Tertiary beds of the Siwalic Mountains, being duplicates from the Collection presented to the British Museum by Capt. Cautley and Dr. Falconer.
Edward Charlesworth, Esq. Cranium of the extinct Irish Deer, (Cervus megaceros).
Lieut. T. C. Cholmeley...... Specimen of Coal from Vancouver's
Island. Joseph Clarke, Esq., fe Cast of a very remarkable Fossil (Saffron Walden) body from the Weald of Dorsetshire,
supposed to be a dermal spine of the Iguanodon. |
Saml. Hailstone, Esq. ...... Specimen of Lead ore from above the Coal at Bradford.
Rey. W. V. Harcourt ....... Geological specimen from Madeira.
E. T. Higgins, Esq. .....0.6. Beautiful specimen of an Ichthyosaurus, discovered at Lyme Regis by the Donor.
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Dr. Mantell .....+000se0+0000. A large Ammonite of an undescribed species, from the Oxford Clay near Trowbridge, Wilts.
C. Oxley, Esq. ..+-s-e+e00e-- Fish Bones in Lias, from Staithes, ex- hibiting a very peculiar structure,
Sig. Lorenzo Pastori....«.-. A Collection of Rocks illustrative of the Geology of Teneriffe and the Canary Isles, (in exchange.)
J. R. Pease, Esq. ..... saseeee Fourteen Teeth of Ptychodus decurrens, Agassiz, from the Chalk at Hessle,
Mr. Henry Stutchbury...... Cast of a Pterodactyle.
Rey. Wm. Walker .......... Specimen of Astacus rostratus Phillips, and other fossils from the Coralline Oolite at Slingsby.
ZOOLOGY.
Presented by 40 Members, ) Specimen of the Apteryx Australis, Subscribers of 2s. 6d. each from New Zealand. Miss Backhouse..........-.... A Collection of Foreign Shells, (in ex- change.) Council of the College of ) Casts of Bones of Dinornis and other Bargeons ...pevccsesecsese extinet genera of Birds, found in the alluvial deposits of New Zealand.
Joseph Clarke, Esq., A collection of North American Land (Cincinnati ). and Fresh-water Shells. Mrs. Robt. Davies .......... Two examples of a rare British Crus- tacean.
Two fine specimens of Voluta Scapha, (in exchange )
Mr. Wm. Dean, (Clapham) Soft parts of Haliotis, from Jersey. Rev. Mr. Franklin, (Malton) Two specimens of the Cock of the Rock.
Jno, Gould, Esq. ............ Several interesting species of Echinus, from Australia. Specimen of the Map Cowrie. Rey. W. V. Harcourt ...... Series of fine Corals from Madeira, Mr. Knowlson «..s0e00-:+ee8 Specimen of Gorgonia.
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George Lloyd, Esq. ......... Two specimens of the Mealy Redpole.
Thos. Meynell, Jun., Esq... Fine example of Trichotropis borealis and various other British Shells.
O. A. Moore, Esq.. .......... Specimen of Conus betulinus.
Lieut. W. Rudston Read... Specimen of the vegetable Caterpillar,* from New Zealand.
W. Rudston Read, Esq. ... Tufted Duck, Female Scaup and young Sclavonian Grebe.
Variety of Teal.
Mr G. B. Sowerby .......... Specimens of the edible Cockle, from Devonshire, exhibiting a curious mal- formation of growth.
Rey. William Thornton, A collection of Foreign Shells, (in ex-
(Kimbolton ) } change.)
Miss Sarah Wheeler, : A (Bristol. An Orange Cowrie, (Cyprea aurantia). Major Eardley Wilmot, R.A. Vegetable Caterpillar from New Zea- land. GARDEN.
S. Wood, Esq. ...oc0ee00e0+-- Collection of Seeds. J. Oldfield, Esq. ......-..... Manure. Mr. Henry Brown ......... Manure.
ANTIQUITIES.
Directors of the York and) Roman Tomb, discovered near the en- Newcastle Railway ...... trance to the York Railway Station. Thos. Allis, Esq. ....0e---ee Gnostic Egyptian Amulet, of gold; Four Roman Coins, Ist and 2nd brass. A Small Gold Ring, probably Roman. A small Brass Ring, medi- eval, all found near the rampart when the first breach was made in the city wall for the entrance to the
York Railway Station.
* Spheria Robertsii, growing from the Larva of Hepialus virescens.
ANTIQUITIES. 25
Miss M. A. Kenrick.......... Impression of the Common Seal of the Monastery of Holyrood, Edinburgh.
Mrs. Hutton, Beverley...... Valuable Collection of Roman and Medieval pottery, and other Anti- quarian objects found at Lincoln.
Robt. Davies, Esq...... see. Forty Silver Coins, including Pennies of Canute, Edward Conf., William L., Edward IV., Henry VII. and VIIL., Elizabeth ; Groats, &c., twenty of
which were struck at York. Denarius of Emp. M. Aur. Sey. Alex-
ander.
26 LIBRARY.
LIBRARY,
BOOKS, &c., PRESENTED.
Archxological Institute ... The York Volume of its Transactions, consisting of Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County of York, &c., part 2, 8vo.
Proceedings of the Institute at the ordinary Monthly Meetings, 1848. Royal Astronomical Society The Greenwich Astronomical Observa- tions for 1845 and 1846, 2 vols. 4to. Greenwich Magnetical and Meteorolo- gical Observations for 1846, 4to. Reduction of the Greenwich Lunar Ob- servations, 1750 to 1830, vol. 2. British Association for the ) Report of the Association for 1847. advancement of Science... psi Catalogue of Stars. Lacaille’s Do. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic ) The Society’s Fifteenth Annual Report Society ...... sevcccccsesecs for 1847. Geological Society of London. Quarterly Journal of the Society for
1848. Liverpool Literary and Phi- Proceedings of the Society during the losophical Society ......... 36th Session, 1848.
Manchester Literary and) Memoirs of the Society, vol. 8, 2nd Philosophical Society. ... series.
Royal Observatory, Edin- ) Edinburgh Astronomical Observations, burgh .....ccescecseseceeees vol. vii. 1848.
Tyneside Naturalist’s Field ) Transactions of the Club, vol 1, part 3, EROD: veces aekensespaninass 1848.
Oswald Allen, Esq. Appendix to the History of the York (the Author ) Dispensary.
LIBRARY. 27
Edward Charlesworth, Esq. Catalogue of the Shells contained in the Collection of J. C. Jay, M.D., of
New York, 4to., (plates). Dr. W. H. Fitton, Stratigraphical Section from Atherfield (the Author ) Point to Black-Gang-Chine, in the
Isle of Wight.
G, A. Mantell, L.L.D., On the structure of the Maxillary and (the Author ) Dental Organs of the Iguanodon, (from the Philos. Transactions, 1848. ) Observations on Belemnites and other Fossil Remains of Cephalopoda, (from
the Philos. Trans., 1848.)
Wn. D. Saull, Esq., Observations on the Aboriginal Tribes (the Author ) of Britain, 8vo. 1848. C. R. Smith, Esq ............ Proceedings of the Society of Antiqua- ries, for the year 1843-48. J. T. Smith, Esq., The Ventriculide of the Chalk, (from (the Author ) the Annals of Nat. History.) Dr. Thurnam, (the Author) Case of imperfect Development of the Skin, &c. | James Wardell, Esq., The Municipal History of the Borough (the Author) of Leeds, with plates, 8vo.
BOOKS PURCHASED.
The Dodo and its Kindred, by H. E. Strickland, M.A., F.G.S. and A. G. Melville, M.D., 4to.
History of the Isle of Man, by the Rev. J. G. Cumming, M.A., F.G.S.
A Treatise on Malacology, by Wm. Swainson, F.R. and F.L.S., &c.
SERIAL WORKS SUBSCRIBED FOR.
Gould’s Birds of Australia, fol. col. plates, (completed.)
Gray and Mitchell’s Genera of Birds, fol. col. plates, (46 parts pub- lished).
Doubleday and Hewitson’s Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, fol. col. plates, (24 parts published).
Sowerby’s Thesaurus Conchyliorum, 8vo. col. plates, (9 parts pub- lished).
Waterhouse’s Natural History of Mammalia, 8yo. col. plates, (21 parts published).
98 LIBRARY.
Churton’s Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire, fol. (6 parts published), Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis, or Geology of the Sewalik Hills in the North of India, by Dr. Falconer and Major Cautley. (Part 1 to 6 of Illustrations, large folio, and part 1 of Letterpress, Svo.) Forbes and Hanley’s British Mollusca, 8vo. col. plates, (13 parts published). Scientific Memoirs, edited by Richard Taylor, F. 8. A., (18 parts published. ) Ray Society’s Publications, received in 1848 :— Monograph of the British Naked-eyed Meduse, folio, by Prof. Edward Forbes. Correspondence of John Ray, 8yvo. Bibliographia Zoologie et Geologie, vol. 1. By L. Agassiz and H. E. Strickland.
PERIODICALS. London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, monthly. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, monthly. The Phytologist, monthly. London Geological Journal, (3 parts published).
Vresented 13 MAR 1888
Vorkshire Philosophical Society.
ANNUAL REPORT
FOR
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FOR
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PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
FEBRUARY 5, 1850.
YORK: H. SOTHERAN, CONEYSTREET.
1850.
TRUSTEES
THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM,
APPOINTED BY THE ROYAL GRANT.
CHARLES WILLIAM, EARL FITZWILLIAM. THOMAS PHILIP, EARL DE GREY.
HON. ann VERY REV. HENRY HOWARD, D. D. SIR WILLIAM LAWSON, BART., F.S. A. FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ., F.S. A.
ROBERT DENISON, ESQ.
REV. WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, F. BR. 8. RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
PATRONESSES
OF THE
Dorkshire Philosophical Society.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. H. R. H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT.
PATRONS.
THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, F. R. S. EARL OF CARLISLE, F. R. 8S.
EARL FITZWILLIAM, F. R. 8.
EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F. B.S.
LORD FEVERSHAM.
LORD WENLOCK.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1850.
PRESIDENT: ‘
Earu FirzwitiiaM.
VICE-PRESIDENTS :
Witiiam Gray, F.G.S.
Rev. Witt1am Vernon Harcourt, F. R.S. Hon. anp Rev. 8S. W. Law ey.
ANDREW Lawson.
W. M. E. Mityer, M. P.
JoHN Puiups, F. R. 8.
Wiit1am Rupston Reap, F. Z. 8.
Rev. CHarLes WELLBELOVED.
TREASURER:
Tuomas MEyneELL, Jun., F. L. S.
COUNCIL:
Elected 1847........ GrorRGE DopsworTH. Elected 1848........ GrorcEe Gotpisz, M. D. Epwarp Hattstong, F. S. A. Rev. Ropert Bryan Cooxg, F. G. S. Elected 1849........ OswaLp ALLEN Moore. Rev. THomas Myers. Tuomas PRICE. Henry Rosrnson. Elected 1850........ Rosert H. ANDERSON. Rev. JoHn KENRICK. W. L. Newman, F. R. Ast. S. J. P. PritrcHerr.
SECRETARIES :
Tuomas MEyneELL, Jun., F. L. 8S. Tuomas Henry TRAVIS.
6 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM: EDWARD CHARLESWORTH, F. G. S.
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HONORARY CURATORS :
ANTIQUITIES . . . . . . « Rev. C. WELLBELOVED. Botany At ap faite ar i -
CoMPARATIVE ANATOMY. . . THOMAS ALLIS. LaporaToRyY . ... . . . JT. H: Barxer.
RANGERS eS a es Sa METEOROLOGY .. . . .° .” JOHN Forp:
OBSERVATORY . . . . . . W.L.Newmnany, F.R.Ast.8.
SUB-CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM & GARDENS:
Henry BAIngEs.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
TO THE
Annual fleeting.
In reviewing the occurrences of the past year, that are calcu- lated to affect this Society, the Council are glad to be able to notice many of a very gratifying nature; gratifying, because, while they shew a steady progress in carrying out the objects of the Institution, they exhibit likewise a zeal and munificence on the part of some of our members, that not only indicate how deeply and justly those objects are appreciated mow, but also afford us the best assurance of the permanence of our prosperity.
In the last Report, the Council alluded to certain contem- plated alterations near the entrance of the Museum Gardens, consequent upon the acquisition by the Society of the house adjoining the Museum Gates, and their having become the tenants of the garden formerly occupied by Miss Yorke. These alterations were completed during the spring of the past year, but from the difficulty that attended the taking down and removal of the gateway and other buildings, and the great variation in the levels of the different portions of ground, an amount of labour, exceeding what had been anticipated, was necessarily expended. The total cost of these alterations, including sods, shrubs, gravel, labour and mason’s work, was £133. 4s. 11d., but from this must hereafter be deducted the value of the stones, (which formed the Propyleeum and Lodge,) which still remain in the Society’s hands, no eligible oppor- tunity of disposing of them having occurred.
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This expense, though heavy, the Council feel assured will not be thought too great for the completion of, what they conceive to have been justly estimated as, a most desirable and effective improvement.
The only other item of extraordinary expense the Council have to notice, is one of £128 17s. 2d. for cases required in fitting up the room in the Museum dedicated to “ The Rudstone Collection of British Birds,” towards which the Society are indebted to William Rudston Read, Esq., for a very liberal contribution of 50 guineas, thus enhancing the value of his former munificent donation of the collection itself.
Three associations of a scientific character, which have been formed in York during the past year, call for especial notice on the part of the Council, aiming, as they do, at co-operation with this Society, though wholly supported by independent funds. One of these, the “‘ Yorkshire Naturalists’ Club,” origin- ated in the wish to bring into more general communication with one another the working naturalists of the whole County of York. This Club holds periodical meetings for the exhibi- tion of specimens, and for the discussion of subjects relating to the Natural-History of the county, and the funds at the disposal of the Committee are in part applied to the purchase of desiderata for the different Museums of Yorkshire, that of York taking precedence as the County Museum.
A second association has been established in York, under the denomination of the ‘‘ Yorkshire Antiquarian Club,” which binds itself by its first rule to have no private collection, but to deposit the specimens, given to or discovered by it, in the Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society ; it being the principal object of the Club to make researches by opening barrows and other earth-works, and examining any of the remains of antiquity so abundantly spread over various parts of the County.
The third, under the denomination of the “ British Natural- History Society,” though not confining its investigations to this County, still, from its having originated with The Keeper of this Society’s Museum, and from the benefits which it is likely to confer not only on the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, but on
COUNCIL FoR 1849. 4)
Natural-History generally, claims, in a high degree, the support of this Society. One object of the above Society is to employ competent collectors in such districts as are known to be rich in natural productions, either recent or fossil, and to distribute the Collections, thus accumulated, amongst individuals or public institutions, who have promoted the undertaking; it being a part of the plan, that one specimen, at least, of each species, shall be the property of this Society, and be deposited in our Museum, thereby securing the preservation of one com- plete series of all the objects which may be discovered. The Natural-History Society has commenced its labours by collecting Tertiary Fossils of the Isle of Wight and adjacent Cliffs of Hordwell and Barton. From these sources a vast number of valuable specimens has been obtained, more than 20,000 of which have already been distributed amongst its members.
To this Society the Museum is indebted for an interesting series of Tertiary Fossils, which forms the most valuable addition to the Geological Collection during the past year. It includes more than 50 species, either quite new or unfigured in any British Work; many of these are accompanied by beautiful and accurate drawings, executed, under Mr. Charles- worth’s direction, by Mr. Smith, an artist, whose merits as a delineator of objects of Natural-History, are well known to the Members of this Society.
Another valuable acquisition in this department is a tooth of the Megalosaurus from the Malton Oolite, presented by Dr. Murray, of Scarborough. This tooth is not only unique as a Yorkshire Fossil, but in regard to size and the extent of fang preserved, is the most characteristic specimen known. Another Reptilian Tooth, less rare than the foregoing, but equally fine of its kind, belonging to the genus Polyptichodon, also from the Malton Oolite, has been presented by the Rev. William Walker, of Slingsby, who liberally allowed The Keeper of the Museum to select, from his cabinet of Malton Fossils, all such specimens as were considered likely to be of value to the Geological Collection, including much finer examples of several species than were previously in the posession of the Society. From the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Club has been received a Starfish from
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the Calcareous Grit, near Pickering, remarkable for having one less than the usual number of rays. From the same source several interesting additions have also been made to the Bridlington Fossils.
In the Ornithological department, the Council are glad to notice the near completion of the re-arrangement of the general collection, commenced during the year 1848, according to the plan noticed in the last report. The following donations to the collection of British Birds are worthy of particular remark. A beautiful Bustard, (Otis Mc Queenii, Gray,) shot in Lincolnshire, and the only instance of the occurrence of the species in Europe, has been presented to the Society by a joint subscription of several of its members, who purchased it for £25, and thus secured to the Museum this unique British specimen. Likewise a Yorkshire killed specimen of Buffon’s Skua, a rare visitant of the British coasts, presented by Mr. W. R. Read.
To Henry Telford, Esq., the Society is indebted for a very extraordinary bird, killed in Ayrshire, and supposed to be a hybrid between the Black and the Red Grouse.
The arrangement of “'The Rudstone collection of British Birds” will shortly be completed in a manner worthy of the Society’s appreciation of so valuable a donation.
In the Conchological Collection may be noticed the addition of another series of American Land and Fresh-water Shells, presented by Mr. Joseph Clarke, of Cincinnati, to whose warm interest in the Society the Council have, on former occasions, had to allude.
F. N. Glossop, Esq., of Isleworth, has forwarded two beautiful examples of the rare Carinaria Mediterranea, commonly known as the Glassy Nautilus, and Capt. Edward Dixon, R.N., has presented specimens of Janthina, from the Coast of Africa, accompanied with the Ova and soft parts. An extensive series of shells from the Pacific Coasts, containing many valuable species, has been likewise received from Adam Crawford, Esq., of Rhodes, North Berwick.
The donations to the Antiquarian department have not been very numerous, but some of them are worthy of particular remark. For the most valuable additions the Society is
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indebted to the Yorkshire Antiquarian Club, some of the mem-
bers of that club having obtained permission from Richard Jennings, Esq., to complete the examination of a large tumulus in his possession at Driffield, partially explored by him four or five years ago; on which former occasion he found some very curious Anglo-Saxon remains, and presented them to the Museum.
The result of further excavations by the Antiquarian Club has been the discovery of several similar but still more curious articles of the Anglo-Saxon period, which, added to those pre- viously received from the owner of the tumulus, form a highly interesting and instructive portion of the collections of the Society.
A relic of a period not so remote, but of a very interesting character, has been presented to the Society by the Rev. J. Thompson, Vicar of Easeby: an Epitaph, or rather four Epitaphs on a Mr. J. Swale, in four different Languages, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English, written (as it is with great probability conjectured,) by that eminent reformer and translater of the Bible, Miles Coverdale, in the year 1538. The epitaphs are written on a folio sheet of paper, framed in oak, and guarded by a sliding panel of the same material, by which they had been long and effectually concealed. It had been deposited in the Church of Easeby, by whom or when it is not known; and, there, had served as a trencher, on which the Sacramental bread was cut. A copy of the epitaphs is given by Dr. Whitaker in his history of Richmondshire.
The Council have the satisfaction to state that the many valuable services, which have been rendered to the Antiquarian departments of the Museum, by their Curator, will soon be crowned by the completion of an arranged description of the principal remains of Roman and Medizval art, which are in the possession of the Society. The publication of such a work will be at once honourable to the Society and gratifying to the public.
It will be found, from an examination of the list of donations, that several additions of unusual interest have been made to the collection of stove and bardy plants, in the Society’s Hot-
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house and Gardens since the last report. Amongst the most. valuable of these, the donations of Sir William Jackson Hooker the superintendent, and Mr. Smith the Curator, of the Royal Gardens at Kew, are particularly worthy of notice, as well as those obtained through R. Marnock, Esq., the Curator, from the Royal Botanical-Society’s Gardens, Regent’s Park.
The Museum Gardens have been recently visited by Dr. Lindley, who expressed himself highly interested in the Society’s collection of plants, and has since forwarded to the Sub-Curator 60 valuable additions, with a promise of further co-operation.
The Library has received valuable donations from various learned Societies and private individuals, and some original works have been presented by the authors.
The following is a Meteorological Table for the year 1849, as annually furnished to the Society by the Curator of Meteorology, with his observations thereon.
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER FOR 1849—-YORK.
Co . : ° 4 : : Bisix q a = ) e | : a [Eels |s|e| 3 gles! 2 | 2] € | Oo Rel olele le Clot ee nm ~ wi] uh | =) és | 3 | 2 feel 2?) 2] 213 le8) te BAT B (32/2 |2/2) Sees) a _ 2 2 < = = 3\4 Q Jan. | 30°35 | 28-76 | 29-789 || 1-61 | 18 || 42-8] 32-4/ 87-6) 54 [18) 16 |W&N.W Feb. | 30-90 | 29-27 | 80-098 || 0:50 | 6 || 47-3) 34-4) 40-7] 53 [23) 11 | Ww.
Mar. | 80°57 | 29°32 | 30-037 || 1:14 | 11 || 47+7| 34-8) 41-2) 59 [26 11 | Ww.
April | 30°41 | 29°27 | 29°657 || 1:95 | 18 || 49-4| 36-6) 43-0) 64 27) 8 | S.E. May | 80°32 | 29-21 | 29-907 || 1-99 | 14 || 60°8| 44-0) 52-4) 71 82} 1) N.E. June | 30°34 | 29°66 | 29:956 || L0G | 8 || 64:1) 46-6) 55:4) 73 [82 July. | 80°48 | 29°34 | 29-843 || 3°29 | 15 || 67-8) 50°7| 59-3) 82 |44
Sept. | 80°58 | 29:10 | 29°942 || 2-68 | LL || 60:4| 49-0) 54°7) 72 |38
1
0 Aug. | 30°35 | 29°48 | 29-898 || 2°25 | LI || 66+2)51+7| 58-9) 74 |48) O/| S.
0
6
Oct. | 30°72 | 29°35 | 29-848 || 2-43 | 16 || 51-8) 39-2) 45-5) 63 |31 Noy. | 30°36 | 28°87 | 29-802 || 1-95 | 18 || 45-5/ 35°3/ 40-4! 56 /26) 12] SE.
Dec. | 39:80 | 29°35 | 29°953 || 2°78 | 20 || 40-0) 31-2| 35°6| 49 |22) 20 | N.E.
29°894 || 23°63 |160 Mean 47°05 Sia,
COUNCIL FOR 1849. 13
COMPARATIVE PREVALENCE OF WINDS.
N. 8. E. W. QN.E. N.W. S.E. S.W. 28 5L 18 62 58 48 54 46 = 365.
The temperature of the year 1849, (47°-05,) was nearly a mean of 18 years, being 7 of a degree below that amount. The mean height of the mercurial column was 29-894 inches, being also nearly the mean for York. On the 11th of February the mercury attained the unusual height of 30°829 corrected for temperature and for capillary attraction.
The rain of the year, 23°63 inches, is almost exactly an average quantity. :
The following accounts of the amount of rain fallen in the year have been received: viz.,
Settle are ste a as 36°88 Ackworth .. oe $e ee 23°33 Middleton, near Beverley .. iid 29°61 Huggate .. ore ts at 29°77 Leeds ae ad a «. 24-419
Various interesting papers have been read at the usual Monthly Meetings of the Society during the past year, some of which, relating to the Natural History and Antiquities of Yorkshire, may hereafter appear in the Proceedings of the Society.
The money received at the Gate during the year 1849 amounts to £189. 11s. 2d., a sum less than in the previous year by £47. 11s. 9d. When, however, it is recollected, that in the return for 1848 is included the sum of £62. 9s. 6d. paid by visitors during the exhibition in York of the Royal Agricul- tural Society, and that during the past year, the almost total absence of railway excursion trains, and some other unfa- vourable circumstances, have combined to lessen this source of the Society’s income, the Council cannot but feel convinced that the new regulations adopted respecting the admission of strangers at the beginning of 1849 have been attended with success.
The Swimming Baths have not been quite so productive during the past year, as usual, but after deducting all expenses, (includ- ing several which are not of annual occurrence,) the net profit of
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the year will nevertheless be found nearly equal to £4 per cent. upon the sum invested in their purchase. It is also satisfactory to state, that although the receipts from this source have been somewhat diminished, owing to the unfavourable weather during the two past seasons, the total receipts, during the five years the baths have been in the possession of the Society, have been equal to an average interest exceeding £5 per cent. upon this investment.
The Council have great pleasure in noticing the success of a Floricultural Exhibition in the Museum Gardens, in the month of July last. For this the Society was indebted chiefly to the friendly feeling and spirited exertions of two of its members, Mr. Roper, and Mr. Backhouse. The Council are induced to hope, that arrangements may, at a future time, be made for similar beautiful and interesting displays.
The ordinary income of the Society, during 1849, has exceeded its ordinary expenditure by £141. 3s. 2d. The extraordinary expenses of the year have, however, (after deduct- ing Mr. Read’s liberal donation, already noticed), amounted to the sum of £211. 12s. 1d., so that the total expenditure of the Society has exceeded its total receipts this year by £70. 8s. 11d., which sum has been added to the balance due to the Society’s bankers at the close of 1848.
Under these circumstances it has been a matter of necessity to exercise the strictest and most watchful economy in every department of the institution ; and on this account the Council have, with regret, postponed to a future, but (they trust) not distant day, some very desirable improvements connected with the Observatory, and the addition of instruments to the Meteorological Department, of which the Society has here- tofore obtained the use chiefly through the zeal and kindness of the Meteorological Curator.
With a view to offer increased facilities to persons desirous of enjoying the advantages afforded by the Society, the Council have been induced to recommend to this Meeting the adoption of a new Rule, under which parties may hereafter, under the title of “ Associates,” at the cost of £1 annually, obtain for themselves (only) admission to the Museum and Gardens.
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In consequence of friendly overtures the Council have entered upon negociations with the Corporation, with a view to the absolute purchase of certain portions of the Society’s grounds, which are held from year to year under that body, and also of other Corporation property, closely adjacent to the Museum Gardens. Believing that it would be for the interests of the Society to carry out the negociations which have been commenced, the Council will be prepared, under the sanction of this meeting, to make such arrangements as may be necessary for the purpose.
The Council have now finished their detailed review of the principal events of the year 1849. They repeat their conviction that the retrospect is cheering and gives assurance for the future. On the one hand, great and permanent improvements have been satisfactorily effected, to the completion of which obstacles of no ordinary character had long presented them- selves ; and on the other, in the formation of the Antiquarian, and Naturalists’ Clubs, and the British Natural-History Society, (and their friendly and beneficial alliance with the Yorkshire Philo- sophical Society,) in the splendid donations received during the past year, and in the increased zeal and activity of many valued members, they feel that an unusual stimulus has been given towards promoting the objects of the Society, which, they trust, leaves no doubt as to the success of its future career.
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THE
TREASURER OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, IN ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1849.
INCOME.
rr.
1849 £. is. a. Annual Subscriptions and Arrears 562 0 0 Admission of New Members ...... 90 0 0 Ladies’ Subscriptions and Keys of
TO GHEE owes saubetcocacesve TO MD 0 Money received at the Gate........ 18911 2 RONG: ‘Vosiccvecs acca scevscessh > | Skt AU EO
Swimming Bath(deducting expenses) 55 7 8 Floricultural Exhibition (deducting
CENEDSOS) ooacevcdecaccreccess Spe © Donation from William Rudston
Read, Esq., towards fitting up
the Rudston Collection of
British Birds.........cccesee.e 5210 0
Total Income.......... £1167 13 2
Permanent Debt, Yorkshire Insurance Com- ..£1000 0 0
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pany Six Members at £50
1300 0 0 Balance overdrawn Messrs. Swann, Clough, & Co. December 31st, 1849..1261 2 5
Total debt December 31st, 1849 .... 2561 2 5
£3728 15 7
Audited by me, Jan. 8th, 1850, HENRY ROBINSON,
EXPENDITURE. Dr. 1849, £. 8. d. Rent to the Crown ...... £1 0 1 Rent to the Corporation 53 8 0 Rates and Taxes ........ 813 9° Insurance & Water Rates 1215 0 75 16 10 Salaries and Wages: _ Keeper of the Museum 150 0 0 Sub-Curator .......... 100 0 0 Pervants oes cet ee (200 0 Lodgekeeper.......... 20 0 0 Labourers ............ 152 8 0 Clerk and Collector.... 25 0 0 Attendantin Hospitium 6 0 0 473 8 0 Interest on Debt: Yorkshire Insurance Company ........ 48 10 10 To Bankers Se 5017 0 99 710 Museum, Gardens, &c.: Painting and General Repairs....... -«. 12713 11} Purchase and prepara- tion of Specimens 44 8 8} Observatory........ -- 0 10 6 ———— 1213 2 Library Books and Binding........ 1812 0 Incidental Expences: Printing, Advertising, and Stationery.... 59 3 0 Coals and Gas ........ 41 711 Postage, Carriage and Sundries.......... 3511 3 —— 136 2 2 Total Ordinary Expenditure ...... 976 8 0 Extraordinary Expenses: New Cases ............ 12817 2 Garden Alterations .... 188 411 ———— 262 2 1 Total Expenditure................ 1288 2 1 Permanent Debt, viz: Yorkshire Insurance Company ....£1000 Six Member at £50 each ++........ 300 1300 0 0 Balance overd Messrs Swann, Clough, & Co. Dec. 31st, 1848........ 11909 138 6
Total debt, Dec, 31st, 1848 .......... 2490 13 6
£3728 15 7
THOMAS MEYNELL, Junr., Treasurer.
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MEMBERS
ELECTED SINCE FEB. 1849,
1849.
Joseph Dent, Ribsione Hall.
John Glaisby, York.
J. ¥. Taylor, York.
Robert Greaves Walker, York.
T. Basil Woodd, Thorpe Green, Borobridge.
1850.
The Hon. P. Dawney, Beningbrough Hall, York. William Lawson, York. William Kimber, York.
John Shaftoe, York.
John Sampson, York. Christopher Harker, York. John Noble, York. | Christopher Annakin, Yor/. John Watson, York.
Henry Hope, York.
John March, York.
Samuel Lucas, York.
Ralph Weatherley, York. John Kitching, Retreat, York.
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RESOLUTIONS
PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEB. 6ru, 1849.
1. That His Grace the Duke of Northumberland be requested to become one of the Patrons of the Society.
2. That the Report of the Council be adopted and printed for the use of the Members.
3. That the thanks of the Scoiety be given to the Vice-Presidents and Members of the Council retiring from office, and to the Secretary and Curators for their valuable services.
4. That the Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society be empowered to proceed with the negociations with the Corporation, which have been commenced.
5. That the Vice-Presidents to be appointed at future Meetings be limited to eight.
6. That there be constituted a Class of Associates of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, with no other privilege than that of Admission for themselves only, to the Museum and Gardens; each such Associate paying in advance a subscription of One Pound, due January the 1st in each year: the mode of election of such Associates to be the same as that of ordinary Members.
7. That the Council be empowered on certain days to be selected by them during the present year, to permit free admission to all persons to the Museum and Gardens, the mode of admission to be regulated by the Council.
8. That the Council be empowered to admit Strangers during the present year, at the usual rates of payment.
9. That the Council be authorized to admit to the Museum and Gardens, as temporary subscribers, any occasional Visitors to York, not residing in the County, at the rate of one pound for four months for themselves and families, but that in no case shall such privilege be granted for a longer period than twelve months.
10. That the Council be empowered to authorize the holding one or more Horticultural Meetings in the Society's grounds during the present year.
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COMMUNICATIONS
TO THE
MONTHLY MEETINGS,
1849.
Janvary.—Rev. Joun Kenrick, M. A.—Observations on the Egyptian Gnostic Amulet, described by Mr. Wellbeloved in a former communication. Vid. Proc. Y. P. S., page 95.
Aprit.—THomaAs ALLIs.—On some Peculiarities in the Sclerotic rings of Birds and Reptiles.
JunE.—Rey. Joun Kenrick.—On the use of Artesian Wells among the Ancients.
NovEMBER.—JoHN Tournam, M.D.—An Account of the Exam-
ination by the Antiquarian Club, of some Anglo-Saxon Tumuli on the Wolds.
DecemBeR.—Joun Forp.—Observations on the Meteorology of York.
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DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 1849.
GEOLOGY.
Club, Yorkshire Naturalists’ Fossil Starfish, (Asterias arenicola) with only four Rays, from near Pickering, and various Fossils from the Crag of Bridlington.
Society, British Natural-His- ) Large Collection of Tertiary Fossils from
COPY ss icecteecescececeesscs ) the “Esle-of Wight and adjacent Hampshire Cliffs.
Charlesworth, Edward, Esq. Pecten cancellatus, Bean, from the Mal- ton Oolite.
Cholmeley, H. P., Esq.... ... Fossils in Brandsby Slate.
Clarke, Joseph, Esq., } Silurian Fossils from North America.
(Cincinnats) .isriseessccss Crompton, the Misses ....... Fine specimen of Cut Agate. Davies, Mrs. Robert ........- Two specimens of Avicula longicostata.
Harcourt, Rev. W. V. ...... Specimen of Euomphalus rugosus. Harcourt, Rev. Chas. V. .... Fossils from North America. Higgins, E. T., Esq........... Fossil Fishes from Lyme Regis, (in
exchange.)
Meynell, Thos., junr., Esq. Singular nodule (Beetle-stone) from Tenby.
Moarray, Dr. Ps ).c.ccitvew.... Tooth of Megalosaurus from the Malton
Oolite (see page 9).
Pugard, C. (Copenhagen)... Series of Fossils from the Faxoe Lime- stone of Denmark.
Thornton, Geo., Esq., Fossils from the Carboniferous Limestone
( Gargraves) ...secceesseoee of Skipton.
Thurnam, Dr. R. ............ Fossil Sponge, coated with Sulphuret of Tron.
Wilkinson, H. J., Esq. ...... Remarkable Fossil of the genus Cyrto- ceras (?) from a Railway Cutting near Harrogate.
GEOLOGY. 93
Walker, Rev. William, Tooth of Polyptichodon, and other Fos-
(Slingsby) ..csseseeees ee sils of the Malton Oolite (see p. 9). Wilson, John, Esq., Wood from the Petrified Forest, near (De Grey Street, York ) Cairo. ZOOLOGY.
Club, Yorkshire Naturalists’ Fine mounted specimen of the Pike, taken near York. Purchased by subscription for ) New British Bustard, shot in Lincoln- presentation tothe Le) shire, (Otis Mc. Queenii, Gray).
Benson, H. Esq., Specimen of Helix revelata, discovered (Falmouth) ...cccccocees ee } near Falmouth, (in exchange). Bulmer, Mrs. William ...... Specimen of the Alice Shad, taken in the Ouse. Chapman, Mr. Henry ...... Specimen of the Whistling Swan. Clarke, Joseph, Esq. ......... Collection of North American Land and
Freshwater Shells. Cooke, Rev. R. B............. Specimen of the Little Tern (in exchange). Crawford, Adam, Esq., Collection of Shells from the Pacific (Rhodes, North Berwick ) Coast.
Crompton, the Misses ...... Fine specimen of Conus striatus.
Dixon, Capt. Edw., R. N... Specimens of Ianthina, with the ova and soft parts.
Glossop, F. N. H., Esq., Two Specimens of the Glassy Nautilus,
Clodleethy neice (Carinaria).
Grigg, Mise ieee. ieccccegase Skin of a Boa.
Higgins, E. T., Esq. ......... Preparation of a Species of the genus Monacanthus, shewing the insertion of the Dorsal Spine.
Jukes, Miss, (Birmingham) Specimens of Anatina and Amphidesma from Australia.
Meynell, Thos., junr., Esq... Group of Saxicava, in Limestone, from Tenby ; several British Shells, new to the Collection, and a large series of Duplicates, including examples of Helix Pisana, Solen vagina, and other local species.
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Northampton, Marquis of ... Fine specimens of British Uniones.
Read, W. R., Esq.............. A Yorkshire Specimen of Lestris Buffonii.
Telford, H. Esq. ......+6. ««- Supposed Hybrid, between the Black and the Red Grouse.
Westminster, the Very me Mass of Chalk, having upon its surface
the Dean of cscescssseeenes perforations made by the common Limpet. Wilson, John, Esq., : ; (De Gre) Sirens Skin of the Blue Mountain Parrot.
BOTANY.
Higgins, E. T., Esq. ......... Turnip presenting a singular monstro- sity of form.
Yates, James, Esq. ......... Models of the Flower-bud, and of a scale with fruit of the Encephalartus Caffer, which bore fruit at Chatsworth, 1848.
ANTIQUITIES.
Club, Yorkshire Antiquarian. Various Weapons, Implements, and Ornaments from an Anglo-Saxon Tu- mulus, at Driffield, belonging to Richard Jennings, Esq.
Bayldon, John, Esq. ...... .. Five Guinea Piece, Jas. II.
Copper Piece, Irish, Geo. I.
Bebb, George, Esq. ......... Jetton of Venice.
Boyne, Mr. O., Leeds ...... Ten Romano-Aigyptian Coins, Egyptian Necklace and six small Egyptian Figures.
Hay, Rev. Edwd. ........... Antique Silver Ring. Robinson, Henry, Esq. ...... Medalin Bronze, of Pope Gregory XIII. (slaughter of the Huges, 1572). Two ancient English Jettons; a York Halfpenny, W. Wood. Thompson, Rev. John, } Baie on J, Swale, (see Report, Chasey) 0... ccescessevese p- 11).
MISCELLANEOUS. 95
Travis, T. H., Esq. ....0.... Coin of Carausius, 2nd brass. Walker, Rev. William ...... Four Roman Coins, 3rd brass, from Conisthorpe. Walker, T. K. L., Esq....... Penny of Edward, found in Lord Mayor’s _ Walk. Wellbeloved, Rev. Charles... Coin of Vespasianus, 2nd brass ; antient English Jetton. Wood, Mr. W. R. a Silver Florin, Victoria. CREME. sor cccvassicescarsoce MISCELLANEOUS. Dixon, Capt. Edw. R. N..... Some Native African Weapons. May iy Joseph, Hag, Medallions in Old Wedgwood Ware. (Liverpool ). ......ccceccese Morris, Miss C. ......s0es.... Thames-Tunnel Medal and Copper
Token. Walker, T. K. L., Esq....... An Old Rapier.
GARDEN.
Gardens, Kew ......00s..... A Collection of Plants through Sir Wm. Jackson Hooker, and Mr. Smith the
Curator. Gardens, Royal Botanic, Forty Plants and Shrubs, through Regent’s Park ......... eee R. Marnock, Esq., the Curator.
Hague, Mrs. B........+.+..... A valuable Collection of Seeds, from the Botanic Gardens at Ceylon. Lindley, Dr. ........... eooeee Sixty Plants.
LIBRARY.
Association, British, for the advancement of Science... College, Trinity, Dublin ... Report of the Museum of the College for 1848. Library, Calcutta Public ... Catalogue of the Library. Society, Geological of London. Quarterly Journal for 1849. Society, Geological and Poly- \ technic of West Riding } Reports and Proceedings for 1847-8. OF Yorkshire : 5.0004 090-200: j Society, Historic, of Lanca- shire and Cheshire ......... Society, Literary and Philo- sophical of Liverpool ...... Society, Literary and Philo- sophical of Leeds .......0. Society, of the Friends of \ Abstracts of Communications made to Natural Science at Vienna. the Society, 4 vols., 8vo, edited by Wm. Haidenger. ; Collection of Memoirs relating to Geology and other branches of Natural Science, 2 vols., 4to., with numerous plates, ed. Wm. Haidenger. Society, Numismatic .......... Proceedings for 1848-9. Society, Royal of Edinburgh. Proceedings and Transactions for 1847-9. The Makerstown, Magnetical and Meteo- rological Observations for 1844-6. Edingburgh Astronomical Observations, vol. 8, 1842.
Annual Report for 1848.
\ Report for 1848.
Proceedings and Papers for 1848-9. \ Vol 5 of the Proceedings.
Report for 1848.
Society, Royal, Cornwall, \ POmtechnic cseccssccoceees Brady Mr. Joseph, Coloured Section of a Railway Cutting
(the Author.) near Settle.
Charlesworth, Ed., Esq....... Delabeche, Sir H.
(the Author.) Denny, Henry, Esq.
(the Author.)
Halliwell, J. O. Esq. .........
Phillips, Rev. G. H. ......... Priestley, Wm., Esq.......---
Smith, C. R., Esq. Spence, Wm. Esq. (the Author.) Watson, Mr. Wm., (the Author.)
Wood, John, Esq. ...+++.....-
LIBRARY. 25
Plates to Schlegel’s. Work on Serpents. Address to the Geological Society of London, February, 1849. A Glance at the Fossil Flora of the Carboniferous Epoch, with especial refereiice to the Yorkshire Coal-Field.
M. S. Rarities of the University of Cam- bridge.
Rara Mathematica.
Connection of Wales with early Science of England.
Introduction to Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Fine copy of Gerard’s Herbal.
A Glossary of North Country Words with their Etymology and Affinity to other Languages; and _ occasional Notices of Local Customs and Popu- lar Superstitions—By I. I. Buckett, F.S.A. 4 vols.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries.
Anniversary Address to the Entomo-
logical Society of London, 1848.
Plan of the Town of Market-Weighton.
Vols. 1, 2, and 3, of the Journal of the Horticultural Society of London.
SERIAL WORKS SUBSCRIBED FOR. Gray and Mitchell’s Genera of Birds, fol., col. plates, completed.
Doubleday and Hewitson’s plates.
Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, fol., col.
Sowerby’s Thesaurus Conchyliorum, 8vo. col. plates, (10 parts pub-
lished)
Waterhouse’s Natural History of Mammalia, 8vo., col. plates, (2 vols.
published).
Churton’s Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire, fol. (6 parts published).
Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis, North of India, by Dr.
or Geology of the Sewalik Hills in the Falconer and Major Cautley. (Part | to
9 of Illustrations, large folio, and part 1 of Letterpress, 8vo.)
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26 LIBRARY.
Forbes and Hanley’s British Mollusca, 8vo. col. plates, (24 parts published).
Scientific Memoirs, edited by Richard Taylor, F. S. A., (19 parts published).
PERIODICALS.
London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, monthly. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, monthly. The Phytologist, monthly.
Z London Geological Journal, (3 parts published).
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