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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE COUNCIL

OF THE

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PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING

FEBRUARY 7TH, 1832,

YORK®

THOMAS WILSON AND SONS, HIGH-OUSEGATE,

1832,

CONTENTS

Page,

List of the Trustees, Patrons, Officers, &c. ... v

REPORT of the Council . I

Treasurer’s Annual Accounts . 20

Scientific Communications . 23

Donations to the Museum . . . . 25

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Donations to the Library. . 33

New Members . 38

Additional Subscriptions to the Building Fund 39

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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 The Yorkshire
Philosophical Society f for the use of the said Society ,
the sum of to be paid out of such part

of my personal estate , as I may legally charge therewith .
[Or here enumerate the effects or property intended to 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.

VISCOUNT MILTON, F.R.S., F.S.A.

LORD GRANTHAM.

HON. AND REV. HENRY E. J. HOWARD.
FRANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ.

ROBERT DENISON, ESQ.

REV. W. VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S.
WILLIAM MARSHALL, ESQ. F.G.S.
EUSTACHIUS STRICKLAND, ESQ.
RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.
WILLIAM WRIGHT, ESQ.

PATRONS

OF

THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,

HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,
EARL OF CARLISLE,

EARL OF TYRCONNEL, F.G.S.

VISCOUNT MORPETH.

VISCOUNT MILTON, F.R.S,

LORD STOURTON.

LORD WHARNCLIFFE.

LORD MACDONALD.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETAL

PRESIDENT :

The Viscount Milton, F.R.S., F.S.A. &c. &c.

VICE-PRESIDENTS :

James Atkinson.

Francis Cholmeley, F.H.S.

Hon. and Rev. Henry E. J. Howard.
Rev. Charles Wellbeloved.

TREASURER:

Jonathan Gray.

Elected 1829
Elected 1830

Elected 1831 ..

Elected 1832

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. vii

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. . . . Eustachius Strickland.

. . . . Barnard Hague.

Rev. William Lund.

J. P. Pritchett.
o . . Rev. Stephen Creyke.

Rev.. William Flower, jun.

Rev. William Hincks, F.L.S.

Jonah Wasse, M.D.

, . . . Rev. D. R. Currer.

George Goldie, M.D.

Rev. John Baines Graham.

Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S., &c.

SECRETARIES:

William Gray, jun.
John Phillips, F.G.S.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY,

Rev. Henry Atcheson, F C'.P.S

viii OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.

CURATORS:

Rev. John Graham ...... Geology.

William Marshall, F.G.S. Mineralogy.

James Atkinson . . . . . Comparative Anatomy.

Rev. J. B. Graham . Ornithology.

Thomas Backhouse . Entomology.

Rev. W. Hincks, F.L.S. . . Botany.

Rev. C. Wellbeloved .... Antiquities and Coins.
Rev. W illiam Lund . Library.

KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM :
John Phillips, F.G.S.

SUBTURATOR:

Henry Baines.

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REPO R T

OF

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The Society, since its last Annual Meeting, has been called
Upon to take an active share in transactions which, there is
reason to hope, may prove the commencement of a new era in
the history of British science.

In the beginning of April, the Council received a communi¬
cation, through one of its Secretaries, from a distinguished
philosopher, 1 proposing that Meetings of men of science,
similar to those which for some years past have annually as¬
sembled in Germany, should be extended to our own country,
and inquiring whether it would obtain the concurrence of the
Society, that the first Meeting should be held at York.

Convinced of the general benefit which might be derived
from this proposal, if it should lead to a better system of
scientific co-operation than has hitherto prevailed, and sensible
at the same time of the honour and advantage which would
redound to the Institution from contributing in any degree to
the accomplishment of so important an object, the Council
replied by expressing the satisfaction which the Society would
feel in giving to such a Meeting the best reception in its

1 Dr. Brewster,

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power, and having ascertained through its Secretary, Mr,
Phillips, that the design would meet with adequate support
from scientific men in various parts of the kingdom, proceeded
on the 3 2th of July to issue a general circular inviting the
friends of science to meet in the apartments of the Society
during the last week in September.

To give publicity to the invitation, the Committee which the
Council appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the
Meeting, addressed copies of the circular to the Presidents
and Secretaries of all the Philosophical Institutions in Eng¬
land. As President of the first of our scientific establish¬
ments, the Duke of Sussex was solicited to honour the Meeting
with his presence. His Royal Highness replied, that if his
engagements had permitted him, nothing would have given
him greater pleasure than to have accepted the invitation ; and
he desired that his best wishes for the success of so praise¬
worthy an object might be communicated, with an assurance
of his warm co-operation in promoting any measure which
might be suggested and sanctioned by such a Meeting.
Copies of the circular were also sent to correspondents,
for distribution in Scotland and Ireland ; the substance
of it was publicly advertised, and the invitation was ad¬
dressed individually to a numerous list of persons who were
known to occupy themselves in the cultivation of science. Of
the arrangements which subsequently occupied the attention
of the managing Committee, it is sufficient here to state
that they satisfied the objects, and obtained the thanks of
the Meeting.

On the 27th of September, the Society had the satisfaction
of seeing collected within its walls an assemblage of many
eminent Members of learned and scientific bodies from dif¬
ferent parts of the united kingdoms, before whom it became
the duty of the Council, by the previously expressed desire of

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the principal promoters of the Meeting, to propose a plan for
the conduct of it, and for the establishment of a general
system on which similar Meetings might continue to be
conducted hereafter.

It is not requisite, in this Report, to enter into a detailed
account of the provisions of this plan, because they are on the
point of being published in the Report of the British Associa¬
tion for the advancement of Science, by the order of the
Committee appointed to revise them. The general principles
which distinguish it from the plan of the German Meetings
are these : in the first place, instead of confining the Meetings
to authors only and professed men of science, whilst it invites
such persons to be the leaders and rulers of the Association, it
aims also at diffusing more widely the spirit of scientific inquiry,
and bringing new labourers into the field ; in the second
place, instead of being content with deriving indirect advantage
from the Meetings, it employs them expressly as the means of
giving a powerful impulse and determinate direction to philo¬
sophical inquiry, and of carrying on the advancement of
science by a comprehensive system of co-operative exertion.

The object of this system is not only to give connection to
the efforts of insulated inquirers, but to link Societies them¬
selves together, in unity of purpose and in a common partici¬
pation and division of labour. There are many important
questions in philosophy, and some entire departments of science,
the data of which are geographically distributed, and require
to be collected by local observations extended over a whole
country ; and this is true not only of those facts on which
single sciences are founded, but of many which are of more
enlarged application. Thus, for instance, were the elevation
above the sea of all the low levels and chief heights and emi¬
nences in a country ascertained, so generally that every

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observer of nature might have a station within his reach from
which he could fix the relative position in this respect of
whatever might be the object of his research, of how many
questions in how many sciences would these facts contribute to
the solution ? Again, supposing it to be ascertained also at
these stations what is the temperature of the air, and of the
water, as it falls from the sky, and as it is held in the reservoirs
of the earth, these are data of the same kind, interesting not
only to meteorological science, but to the philosophy of organ¬
ized and animated existence. Yet, extensive as may be the
importance of such facts, and simple as are the processes for
ascertaining them, and numerous as are the individuals capable
of contributing to their investigation, how little nevertheless
even of this preliminary work has yet been accomplished, either
by insulated observers, or by those who are associated together
for the express purpose of advancing the sciences to which it is
of such essential interest.

None of our Societies has ever pretended to collect observa¬
tions of this kind on a regular system, nor to form a national
catalogue of the scattered particulars of any one science accu¬
rately detailed ; and yet the great value which would attach
to such collections, when reduced and analyzed, must often
have occurred to the enlightened conductors of such institu¬
tions. But that which has prevented any single Society from
venturing on the undertaking, has been the impracticability of
carrying it on over so extensive a territory as an entire kingdom.
There is a method however, by which the object might be
achieved. Were there in every county one or more provincial
Societies, having some Members competent to superintend, and
others ready to execute the observations within definite limits,
and were these Societies willing; to work together on a common
plan, the natural history of the country, and all the geogra¬
phical data of philosophy, might easily be collected in a manner
far more perfect than has ever yet been attempted.

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With a just sense, therefore, of the importance to science, of
combining the Philosophical Societies dispersed through the
different provinces of the kingdom in a general co-operative
union, the British Association has not only invited them to
join its Meetings, but has given to those whom they may
specially depute to represent them, the privilege of becoming
Members of the Committee by which its affairs are conducted.

It appears to the Council that in availing themselves of the
bond of connection thus offered, Societies will not only contri¬
bute most essentially to the success of this extensive plan, but
will add greatly to their own efficiency. When individuals meet
for scientific objects, the effect of the general effort, emulation,
and example is to produce a spirit of exertion which gives to
such Meetings their principal value. And if Societies shall
concur, as is now proposed, in thus meeting each other, in pro¬
posing certain common objects, in communicating from year to
year the means which they are using, and the progress which
they are making, it seems impossible that this should be done
in the presence of an assembly concentrating a great part of the
scientific talent of the nation without kindling an increased
ardour of emulous activity ; it seems impossible that the
Deputies of any Society should attend such Meetings without
bringing back into its bosom an enlargement of views, and
conveying to its members new lights of knowledge, new motives
to inquiry, and new encouragement to perseverance.

The actual assembling of one of the Meetings at the place
in which any Society is established, has a tendency to produce
the same effect in a still more powerful degree, and the Council
does not hesitate to state that this Institution has received a
sensible impulse, in all these respects, from the visit with which
it has recently been honoured. The plan, indeed, on which this
Society was first founded, and on which it has always been
conducted, is in the spirit of the design which may now be

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contemplated for the kingdom. Its especial aim has been to
collect information respecting its own county ; and the end to
which it aspires has been described in a former Report to be
4 the execution of such a history of Yorkshire as the Antiquary
and the Natural Philosopher may be contented to possess.’ But
how greatly will the importance of this object be heightened
when it is incorporated into a national system, and when
all the results of our inquiries become part of the materials
of a far more extensive analysis ! It could not but be felt
before by a provincial Society, that in executing the task which
it had undertaken, advice and consultation were wanted. With
how much more confidence may it now proceed, when it has the
advantage of consulting with the Committee of this great national
Association ! In comparing the views which it entertains and
the methods which it employs, with those that may be offered
to its consideration, how largely may it profit by such a com¬
merce, without sacrificing any portion of its real dignity or
independence !

The first accomplishment which the Society had the satis¬
faction to witness of its designs as a County Institution, was
the valuable publication in which its Secretary, Mr. Phillips,
described the Geological relations of the north-eastern dis¬
trict of Yorkshire, and delineated its fossils with so much
accuracy and success. The Council are happy in being able
to state that, having since proceeded to combine materials for a
continuation of the work, its author now proposes to publish
by subscription a similar survey of the north-western part of
the county, in which his labours will have this additional
interest, that he has there, not only a highly interesting field
of research, but one of which the greatest part has never been
before described.

In the Botanical department of the natural history of
Yorkshire, a material advance it is hoped will be made, in a

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work which the Society's Sub-Curator, Mr. Baines, is pre¬
paring for the press. His plan is to give a systematic catalogue
of the native plants of the comity of York, to which there may
probably be added hereafter a Fauna of the same district.
The catalogue will be accompanied by notices of the situation
in which each species is found, with the circumstances of the
soil, substrata, and climate. The Curator of Botany has stated
that the materials which Mr. Baines has already obtained,
through his own exertions, the assistance of his friends, and the
use of the Society's collections, with the aid which he has
reason to expect from individuals and Societies in other parts
of the county, will fully authorize a strong recommendation of
the work to the attention of Botanists, and to the patronage of
the Members of the Philosophical Societies of Yorkshire.

A third subject of extensive interest, to which several
Members of the Society have for some time past paid at¬
tention, and which it now appears practicable to prosecute in
a systematic manner, is that of Meteorological observations.
Whilst there is no science which is more in want than Meteor¬
ology of extensive and well conducted observations, there is
none, perhaps, in which it is so easy to observe under proper
directions. The instruments for measuring the pressure, tem¬
perature, and moisture of the atmosphere, which are sometimes
sedulously used to very little purpose, might thus be made to
minister useful materials to the highest speculations of science.
To offer the requisite instructions, to promote as well as to
make observations, and to extend them to all parts of the
county, would be an office too laborious for any individual to
undertake, and the Council have, therefore, constituted a
Meteorological Committee, and engaged it to make an Annual
Report of its proceedings and progress.

With the pursuits of science the researches of Antiquarian
learning have been combined in this Institution, and though

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the object of the antiquary is different from that of the natural
philosopher, the method which he follows is the same. He
also is a collector of facts ; and the facts which he records for
the use of the moralist and the statesman, are spread over a no
less extended geographical surface, and are to be amassed in
like manner by combining and directing the industry of many
persons. A history of the antiquities of Yorkshire has been
already stated to be one of the professed objects of the Society,
and the Council has been advised by the Curator of that
department that a plan is now proposed for carrying the object
into effect. The Members who cultivate this branch of research
have in consequence been requested to form a Committee, for
the purpose of inviting and collecting topographical, and other
antiquarian information from all parts of the county ; a task of
which the nature will be best explained in the words of the
learned Curator. 1

6 i There are not only in this ancient city and its neighbour¬
hood, but in every part of the great county of York, many
most interesting remains of days gone by, with which matters
of history, both general and local, public and private, are con¬
nected, which are continually suffering from the silent ravages
of time, or exposed to the danger of being swept entirely away
by the unsparing hand of improvement. There are Druidical
circles, and sepulchral tumuli ; ancient roads, and artificial
boundaries ; Roman camps ; Saxon or Danish earth-works,
and Norman baronial castles ; there are ruins of religious
houses, and decaying churches ; monumental tablets, and
sculptured effigies ; writh many other things perishable in their
nature, but connected with deeds and persons, the memory of
which ought not to pass away, and wdiich can be preserved
only in the faithful records of the antiquary.

s The Rev. Charles Wellbeloved.

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The Yorkshire Philosophical Society may hope to make its
library the depository of such records. It counts among its mem¬
bers many who, residing in different parts of the county, might
with little trouble collect and transmit to the Museum much cu¬
rious and valuable information respecting the past and present
state of their neighbourhood, and thus accumulate a treasure of
inestimable worth, in which topographers in time to come may
find laid up for their use what they would otherwise be com¬
pelled to search for at the cost of much time and labour, and
for which, perhaps, they might search in vain, when time, and
accident, and innovation have made havoc of the existing mo¬
numents of antiquity, and the remembrance of that which is
now familiar has been worn away.1’

The Curator proposes that an extensive application shall be
made to individuals, for accounts of their own immediate vi¬
cinity ; and for this purpose a list of minute and well-considered
queries has been drawn up by that able topographer,1 the his¬
torian of Hallamshire, and of the Deanery of Doncaster, who
states that the “ value of the information which will be obtained,
whenever these queries fall into the hands of a gentleman who is
disposed to bestow on them the easy labour which the answers
will require, would be highly appreciated by any one who had at¬
tempted to describe a considerable extent of country, and who
must have found that it is often easier to collect accounts of what
passed two or three centuries ago, than of the occurrences of the
century preceding our own.” By employing these means, and by
referring, where it may be practicable, to documentary evidence
in order to verify the oral information obtained, it is hoped that
materials may by degrees be collected for the history of that
large portion of this county which remains yet undescribed, and
also for the future continuation of the history of those districts
which have been of late so amply and so satisfactorily illustrated.

1 The Rev. Joseph Hunter,

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Such are the objects to which the exertions of the Officers
and other Members of the Society are directed, and to which
they may now be fully devoted. The general arrangements of
the establishment have been at length completed, as far as
circumstances will at present permit. The various means which
have been for some years employed to excite a spirit of science
have not been without their effect, and the system of scientific
Committees gradually applied, as opportunities occur, to
different branches of knowledge, will doubtless have a still
greater efficacy in enlisting new recruits in the service of
philosophy. There are many Members who have it in their
power to give at least a portion of their time to these in¬
teresting and useful pursuits : to its younger Members
especially the Society may look for zeal and activity in ad¬
vancing its scientific objects, in satisfying the expectations
which its progress and conduct have raised, and making its
utility and reputation answerable to the pains which have been
bestowed upon its affairs, and the liberality with which its
expenses have been supported, and its collections increased.

The donations which have been made since the last Report
to the collections of the Society, have been as numerous as in
former years, and of even more than usual value. The most
valuable specimen, perhaps, which has yet been presented to
the Geological Museum, is that which has been given to it
by the Rev. Christopher Sykes. It is well known to geologists,
that in the Stonesfield slate one instance has been found,
which, solitary as it is, suffices, if well established, to over¬
turn the whole body of negative evidence from which it might
otherwise have been inferred that no terrestrial animal of a
high order had existed before the deposition of the chalk, and
places in a strong light the precariousness of all geological
propositions which rest upon a negative deduction. This
instance is the lower jaw-bone of an animal which Cuvier has
determined to be allied to the marsupial division of carnivora,

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and has not hesitated to place near the genus Didelphis.
Three specimens of the same bone were already known ; the
fourth which has now been presented to this Museum, was
contained in a collection made for Sir Christopher Sykes by
Mr. Platt, of Oxfordshire, more than forty years ago. It was
found in that collection by Mr. Phillips, who, having declined
the offer of it to himself, afterwards accepted the proposal of
the liberal donor to place it in the Yorkshire Museum.

A zealous patroness of geological science, Miss Benett,
has honoured the Society with an extensive donation of fossils
belonging to the chalk and inferior beds, and including speci¬
mens of the alcyonites of Wiltshire, accompanied by a copy of
the unpublished work in which they are figured. From Mr.
Mantell there has been received a selection of the fossils of the
Tilgate beds and of the chalk of Sussex, augmented by a
contribution from the same county by Archdeacon Croft, — from
the President of the Geological Society,1 specimens of the insects
preserved in the lacustrine deposits of Aix, in Provence, — from
Dr. Buckland, fossils and casts of bones illustrative of some of
his discoveries, — from Mr. Chantrey, a cast taken by him from
the magnificent specimen of Plesiosaurus, in the Duke of Buck¬
ingham’s collection, — from Mr. Henwood, a series of specimens
illustrative of the rocks and mineral veins of Cornwall, — from
Mr. Grimston, the fossil shells of the most ancient depository
of organic remains in Britain, the slate of Snowdon, — from
Mr. Lewis, those of the transition slate of Herefordshire ;
and from Mr. Loscombe, a miscellaneous collection which has
supplied many desiderata in the geological catalogue.

A few additions have been made, illustrative of interesting
facts in the Geology of Yorkshire. To the Curator of the
Philosophical Society of Leeds, 2 the Museum is indebted for

1 R« I. Murchison, Esq.

2 John Hey, Esq.

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casts of fossil fishes, in the collection of that Institution, found in
the coal measures, near Bradford, and unlike any which have yet
been discovered elsewhere. One of the Vice-Presidents of our
own Society 1 has presented some minute specimens of delicate
and unbroken fresh-water shells, (including cypris, cyclas, &c.)
found by him in a white and light deposit which lies on the
diluvial cliffs of Bridlington, locally known by the name of
rotten-stone, and employed in cleansing the floors. The
remnant of one of the collections of fossil bones from the cave
of Kirkdale, which formed part of the first nucleus of the
Museum, lias been contributed by Mrs. Thorpe, in addition to
other donations of minerals and books ; and Mr. Smith
has given to the Society a map of the hills of Hackness, ac¬
companied by a memoir in which the stratification of that
district is minutely described.

But the fact of greatest interest to Yorkshire geology,
which the donations of the past year have illustrated, is
one connected with some fossils from the vicinity of Halifax,
presented by Mr. Christopher Bawson. It has been long
known to the geologists of this county that there exists in
the lower part of the coal series of Yorkshire, in connection
with a particular bed of coal, one layer of shale which encloses
the remains of shells belonging to the marine genera pecten and
ammonites, strongly analogous to, if not identical, with fossils
of the mountain limestone series beneath. This shelly layer
has been observed, with the same characters, at several points
in the vicinity of Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, and Sheffield. In
the vicinity of Halifax, it contains argillo-calcareous connections
of a spheroidal figure, in the interior of which Mr. Rawson
has discovered the same ammonites {a. Listen ) in every stage
from the youngest to the full-grown shell, with the same pecten,
(p- papyraceus ,) and in addition, several specimens of ortho-

1 The Rev. Wm. Vernon Harcourt.

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cera, and plants, and a very extraordinary species of fish,
different entirely from those in the collection of the Leeds
Society, which were obtained from a higher part of the coal
series of Y orkshire.

It has also been long known that in connection with coal-
seams, at a considerable height above this layer of marine
remains, there occur in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, several
bands, as they are termed, of shells admitted to belong to the
fresh-water genus, unio.

To these distinct zoological indications of a marine origin
for the lower part of the carboniferous series, and a fresh-water
origin for the upper parts, Mr. Phillips has added the important
fact, that, in the neighbourhood of Halifax, shells referred to
the fresh-water genus, unio , occur in a layer at some depth
below the layer of marine shells, parallel thereto, and separated
therefrom by two seams of coal.

This is therefore a case analogous to some examples in the
series of tertiary strata, from which it has been inferred that
the same basin has experienced periodical alternations of
marine and fresh-water currents. And, if the zoological cha¬
racters may be depended on, we are assured that, of the old
carboniferous formation in the north of England, the whole of
the lower part associated with limestone, is of marine origin,
but that the whole of the upper part , which has no limestone,
is of fresh-water origin, while the intermediate series shews,
in one situation, a definite alternation of the deposits of the
sea and fresh waters.

The miner alogical collection has been enriched with many
additions, and especially by the valuable contributions of Mr-
Loscombe and Mr. Carne. The latter gentleman, residing in
Cornwall, having had his attention directed to one of the So¬
ciety’s Reports, in which the deficiency of the Museum in the

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minerals of that county had been stated, was induced, in conse¬
quence, to forward to it a well-chosen series of specimens from
the Cornish mines, to assist in supplying the defect.

In Zoology, a specimen of crocodilus acutus presented
by Mr. Kirlew, of meandrina labyrinthica , by one of the
Secretaries of the Philosophical Society of Whitby, (Mr.
Ripley,) of plcicuna sella , by Mr. Brown, and of malleus
vulgaris , by Mr. Danby, and a selection of fresh-water shells
by Miss Benett, are worthy of the notice of the Meeting.
The latter afford an useful comparison with the analogous
specimens of the north of England, and may contribute to
clear up the characters of the ill-understood species of fresh¬
water mollusca.

The series of skeletons of British birds, deposited in the
Museum by Mr. Allis, whether considered in respect to beauty
of preparation, or utility to the student of ornithology, pro¬
mises to be one of the best in England, and continues to be in¬
creased by him, from time to time, with equal assiduity and skill.

The botanical collection has been augmented by a donation
of living plants from the public garden of Liverpool, and by the
addition of many species obtained through the liberality of
Members of the Society, and the exertions of the Sub-Curator,
Mr. Baines. The herbarium has received three hundred
dried plants Rom Russia, presented by Mr. Cattley, of St.
Petersburgh.

The Society's library 1 has been favoured with the Tran¬
sactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the Society of
Arts, of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and of the

1 A donation of £.5 has been given by Archdeacon Markham to the
library, and an annual contribution of c£.l offered, in case a subscription
should be entered into for the highly desirable object of enlarging the
number of scientific books.

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Literary and Philosophical Society, and the Natural History
Society of Newcastle ; it has received the Proceedings of the
Geological Society of London, the Report of the Cornwall
Geological Society, and the Programme de la Societe des Anti -
quaires du Nord . Many authors, eminent in various branches
of science have presented copies of their publications. A mong
these, the valuable work of the Vice-President of the Astronomi¬
cal Society, on Practical Astronomy, requires more especially
to be noticed, as having been accompanied by a promise on
the part of the author, when he attended the Meeting of the
Association in this Museum, that if the Society should proceed
to add an Observatory to its other scientific objects, he would
present to it two of the best instruments in his possession.
In consequence of this munificent offer, a Committee has been
appointed to inquire what disposition there may be in this
county and neighbourhood to encourage and cultivate the
important science of Astronomy. 1

There is no more important desideratum, in respect to the
means which this Institution possesses of promoting science,
than that of philosophical instruments. The Secretaries have
constructed for its use an accurate Barometer with an adjustable
cistern, and the Treasurer has contributed a clock.

Among the objects of antiquarian interest which have been
presented to the Society, are maps in tapestry of three of the

1 The Committee have since received from Dr. Pearson an offer of a
clock, a telescope, and a transit instrument ; they have obtained an
estimate of the expense of erecting an observatory in the Society’s
Garden, which amounts to £.300, and have invited the subscriptions of
the members of the Society and others who may take an interest in
promoting so useful an object. Contributions will be received by the
members of the Committee, (Mr. Donkin, Mr. Jonathan Gray, and the
Rev. Wm. Taylor,) the Secretaries, (Mr. Wm. Gray, jun., and Mr.
Phillips,) and the Banks in York.

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REPORT OF

midland counties, bearing the arms of Sheldon and the date
1588, originally put up at Weston in Warwickshire, and
afterwards in the house of Earl Harcourt in Oxfordshire. 1

To the cabinet of Coins there have been added a considerable
number of pennies from different mints of Henry III. of
England, and two of William I. of Scotland, found during the
recent excavations within the choir of York Minster, which
have disclosed remains of the ecclesiastical architecture of
three eras anterior to that of the present choir. With these
were presented 2 a Roman coin of Constantine, and some frag¬
ments of Roman pottery, dug up between the walls of that
portion of these remains which appears to have been a Saxon
church. A stone coffin with its contents, from the gravel-pits
in Heslington-field, exhibiting an unusual mode of sepulture,
has been presented by Major Yarburgh. The body had been
imbedded in plaster, which retains the impression of it ; and
in the plaster were found strings of beads, and ornaments of
jet and amber, similar to those observed in the ancient tumuli
which have been opened on the Wolds.

But the most valuable acquisition which has been added
to the antiquarian objects of the Institution, it owes to the
liberality of the Corporation of York. The Society has been
permitted to excavate on the site of the multangular tower
and by the side of the adjoining wall which has always been
considered the most ancient part of the fortifications of York :
in the course of the work indubitable evidence was discovered
of the Roman origin of those remains, and additional portions of
them were exposed. These, in consequence of a memorial from
the Council, have since been put into the possession of the
Society ; and thus, through the favour of the Corporate body,

1 Presented by the Archbishop of York.

2 By the Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt.

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THE COUNCIL.

the Society has been the instrument of tracing and preserving
the most venerable of the antiquities which record the an¬
cient greatness of this city, a memorial of the mighty power to
which we owe the first civilization of our country, and of the
era when York was the strong hold of the Roman power in
Britain, and when the court of the sovereigns of the world
was contained within these walls,

A subscription was opened to meet the expense of the ex¬
cavation and enclosure of the remains so unexpectedly brought
to light, and the Council contributed to it £50. on the
Society's account. This sum is therefore added to the stand¬
ing debt, which has been further augmented by the expendi¬
ture required in completing, as far as prudence would permit,
the furniture of the Museum on the principle laid down in the
last Report.

It was there stated that there existed “ an immediate and
pressing want of further means for arranging the specimens
and books, and that the Council could not advise the supply¬
ing this want by a system of shifts and expedients, which in the
end entail more expense with less either of ornament or use/'
When it had been determined that a general scientific Meeting
should be held in York, it became the more necessary to exe¬
cute at once the contemplated arrangements. The furnishing
of the theatre and two of the Museums, has in consequence
been completed ; such cases as were required for the collections
in the other rooms have been added, the Library has been
fitted up, and the Laboratory rendered available. These
expenses, with that of the enclosure of the Roman wall, have
occasioned an increase in the Society's debt of about d?3Q(b
and it may now, therefore, be stated as amounting to i?170Q,
The sum, however, which will bear interest will be less than
this by several hundred pounds, on the supposition that the
Members will take care that their annual subscriptions shall

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REPORT OF

be paid in the commencement of the year, when they become
due ; for whatever money is paid into the Bank on the
Society’s account, before it is required to be drawn out, is
balanced against the debt.

Thus far the Council have exercised a discretion, which
they hope will meet with the approval of the Meeting, for
the important purpose of enabling the Curators of the various
collections to arrange the valuable and multiplied donations
which they annually receive ; but they do not propose to go
further in increasing the debt even for this object. To com¬
plete the establishment in a satisfactory manner, an additional
expenditure, estimated at <F400, is still wanted to fit up in a
permanent manner the principal room, which contains the
specimens in Zoology and Ornithology, and in which a gallery
will be required. But the Council is compelled to recommend
that the deficiency in that part of the arrangements of the
Museum should be submitted to, till the public liberality
shall furnish the means of supplying it. In the mean time
contributions which members or others may be induced to
subscribe towards this specific object, will be allowed to accu¬
mulate till they shall be sufficient to effect it.

Were it practicable to raise a subscription of i?2000, that
sum would at once finish the Museum and pay off the debt ;
and the Society would thus be left in possession of a clear
income sufficient to remunerate fully the services of the men
of science professionally attached to it, and to carry on the
extensive and important objects which are unfolding themselves
before it, with an efficacy which would do honour to all who
should be concerned in conducting or promoting them. For
such purposes it might not be difficult perhaps in this county
to raise such a subscription. For the present, however, it
appears advisable that the plan proposed in the last Report
should be adhered to, and that a gradual reduction of the debt

THE COUNCIL.

19

should be attempted. But whilst the Council think it prudent
to recommend this course, they must remind the Meeting, that
it would require a long course of years to discharge the incum¬
brance by so tardy a process ; and considering the place
which the Institution now holds in the opinion of the public,
they hope that it will be relieved from these difficulties by
more speedy means. Forming part, as it now does, of a
system which promises, ere long, to bring again within the
area of this Museum an array of all that is distinguished in
British Science, it may justly expect that before the time
arrives when the national Association shall 66 return in its
periodical revolution, to the point of its first attraction,” an
object so important to the character and exertions of the
Society will be accomplished, and that it will be rendered in
all respects worthy to be numbered among the efficient scien¬
tific establishments of the country.

20

ANNUAL ACCOUNT,

RECEIPTS.

Annual Subscriptions from 213 Members at 21.
Ditto from 3 at 1 1. ...

From Ladies, being Annual Subscribers
For Keys of Garden ... ...

Due to the Treasurer on this Account

£. s. dr

426 0 0

3 0 0
23 0 0
10 10 0
79 9 0|,

£.541 19 0

The above Balance due to the Treasurer ... ... 79 9 0

Arrears due to the Society on this account ... ... 87 0 0

Balance in favour of the Society ... ... ... £.7 10 11

I I M|«1

ANNUAL ACCOUNT

21

PAYMENTS.

Rent to the Crown ...

Rent to the Corporation
Parochial rates, &c. .. .

Water rent
Insurance ...

Salaries and Wages :

Keeper of the Museum
Sub-curator
Lodge-keeper
Collector and Messenger
Day-labourer

Incidents ...

Sundry small bills ...

Printing and Advertising :

Report for 1830

List of Members and Donors ...

Miscellaneous

£. s. d,
10 8

6 12 6

12 11 4

4 4 0

5 0 0

of o So d.

29 8 6

100 0 0
54 12 0
10 0 0
2 12 6
38 10 0

- 205 14 6

31 11 3
... 8 5 4

30 9 6
9 18 0
8 9 0

Stationery

Books and Binding :

Books o-»« « o • 37 10 0

Binding ... ... ... ... ... 23 18 5

Miscellaneous Repairs
Garden

Gas ... ... ... ... . . . .. .

Coke, 1830, 1831

Purchases and preparation of specimens .. ...

Paid expenses relating to the arrangements for the ad- )
mission of Members to the Scientific Meeting ... S
Paid Interest on debt

48 16 6
6 8 10

61 8 5

11 14 0

6 18 3
14 0 9
36 0 0
11 2 2

6 13 0

63 17 6

£. 541 19 0

c 3

tor*

GENERAL ACCOUNT

<£ 9 So do

Surplus of Annual Income,

1830 ... ... 101 2 10

Received the following ar¬
rears 2

. . of Annual Sub¬
scriptions ... .... 28 © ■©

. . of Subscriptions

to the Building ... 65 5 0

.......... of sums due, for

History of St. Mary’s

Abbey . . ... 21 0 0

. . Subscriptions to

the Building, 1831 50 © 0

Composition and payment

in part of Composition . 50 0 0

Admission of 27 Mem¬
bers, deducting their first
year’s subscription ... 81 © 0

Balance due to the Trea¬
surer on this Account ... 1753 1 6|

2149 9 44

£. e. d.

Balance against the So¬
ciety on the Building
Account, Jan. 1831 1659 32 0
2 Bills unpaid, 1830 . 30 11 6

Payments for additional
fitting up of the Mu¬
seum, 1831 ... 409

Payment for excava¬
tion, &c. of Mul¬

5 101

tangular Tower

50 0 0

The Balance due to the Treasurer on this account

Deduct Arrears due to the Society on this account » 142 2 0

Deduct Balance due on Annual Account ... ... 7 10 <114

Leaving a Balance against the Society of

The Society is under further liabilities to the amount of about ..
Final Balance against the Society ...

2149

9

J

I 1

s.

d .

1753

1

149

12

1U

2

1603

8

7

100

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8

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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS

RECEIVED AT

THE SOCIETY’S MEETINGS.

February,, 1831.— A Clock of MfDowalTs construction, with spiral
seeth instead of pinions, was exhibited and explained to the Meeting, by
Jonathan Gray, Esq.

March.— Notice of a simple method of measuring certain inacces¬
sible distances notice of the construction of a new perpetual Sunday
Calendar, by the Rev. Wm. Taylor, A.M.

On a new and very easy construction of the Dipping Needle, by
John Phillips, F.G.S.

Summary of Meteorological Obser rations at Ackworth, in 1830,
by Luke Howard, F.R.S., &c.

April.— Remarks on the materials employed at different times in
the ancient buildings of York, by the Rev. W. V. Harcourt, F.R.S., &c.

Observations on a specimen of the lower jaw of a didelphine
quadruped, obtained forty years since from the Stonesfield slate, and
presented to the Museum by the Rev. C. Sykes, by John Phillips,
F.G.S.

July.- — A description of the skeleton of a plesiosaurus from
Hawsker, now in the Scarborough Museum, by John Dunn, Esq.

Observations on an ancient leaden coffin, lately opened in York
Minster, by the Rev. C. Wellbeloved.

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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS.

Notices of Museums in the South of England, by John Phillips,
F.G.S.

October.— A description of the new volcanic island near Sicily;
communicated by Captain Hotham, R.N.

November. — On the contents uf a stone coffin, lately dug up in
Heslington-field, by the Rev. C. Wellbeloved.

Memoir on the stratification of the Slackness Hills, accompanied
by a Geological Map of the district, by W m. Smith, Esq.

December. — Electro^magneiie - experiments, by Wm. Gray, jun..
Esq.

Plan of a hot air bath, by the Rev. Wm. Taylor, A.M.

Remarks on the change of colour occasioned by the transmission of
light through plates of coloured glass of the same kind, hut varying in
number or thickness, by the Rev. W. V. Har court, F.R.S.

Notice of a peculiar condition of his own vision, arising from in¬
disposition. — On the mean temperature of York, as deduced from
twenty-five years observations by Jonathan Gray, Esq., by John
Phillips, F.GJ5.

January, 1832.— Electro-magnetic, and magnetic experiments,
by Wm. Gray, jun.. Esq., and John Phillips, F.G.S.

Summary of observations on the temperature of the -air, and
quantity of rain at Brandsby, in 1831, by Francis Cholmeley, Esq.

DONATIONS

TO

THE SOCIETY’S MUSEUM.

GEOLOGY,

Mr. Thos. Allis .

Fossil shells from tertiary strata in the
interior of Barbadoes.

Miss J. Bonomi .

Laminated magnesian limestone, Sunder¬
land.

Miss Benett . . . ....

Large series of fossils from the chalk of
Wiltshire, green sand of Wiltshire and
Blackdown, Portland oolite of Chicks-
grove, &c. &c.

Rev. Wm. Buckland, D.D.

Coprolites from Lyme Regis, with il¬
lustrative preparations, casts of parts of
megalosaurus, pterodactylus, &c.

R. Bevan, Esq. Rougham.
by H. Bower, Esq. F.A.S.

Mr. Henry Baines .

Phosphate of iron from the Lagoon, near
Lowestoff.

3 fossil plants from Wakefield.

Mr. Copsie . .

Pinna folium, from the diluvium of Filey.

Miss Croft .

Corals and shells from the crag of Suffolk.

Rev. Archdeacon Croft ...

Series of fossils from the chalk, chalk-
marl, green sand, &c. of Kent and Sus¬
sex.

fvcv, Hi B» C ooke » * * s « • • o •

Elephant’s tooth from the coast, two miles
north of Hornsea.

26

DONATIONS TO

Francis Chantrey, R.A. ... Cast of the specimen of plesiosaurus doli-

chodeirus, in the possession of the Duke
of Buckingham ; cast of ichthyosaurus
communis, in the collection of the Geo¬
logical Society.

W. Danby, Esq . . Dapedium politum from Lyme Regis.

Mr. Henry Downing ...... Deposit of carbonate of lime in the interior

of the water-pipe of a coal-pit.

Mr. Ellison . . . . Several polished specimens of rocks, pro¬

duct® in mountain lime. South Wales.

Rev. Robert Ellis ......... Specimens from a peat deposit near Escrick,

Sir Philip G. Eger ton, Bart, Horn of deer, probably cervus elaphus,

from the gravel in Wharfdale.

Mr. J. Gilbertson, Preston Mass of weathered mountain limestone,

full of crinoidal reliquiae, near Clitheroe.

The Hon. Miss Robinson . Fossil fish from Bedfordshire.

John Grimston, Esq,

Fossil shells from the slate rocks of Snow¬
don.

Samuel Hailstone, Esq. ... Pecten papyraceus from the coal shales

near Bradford.

John Hey, Esq. ............ Casts of specimens of fishes in the Leeds

Museum, from the coal measures of
Bradford.

W. J. Henwood, Esq....... Series of specimens illustrative of the

Geology of the Lizard Point, and other
parts of Cornwall, and of the mineral
veins of that county.

Rev. W. V. Harcourt...... Ammonites, zoophyta, and other fossils

from the chalk of Bridlington ; fishes
from the Speeton clay ; cyclas, cypris,
&c., from the lacustrine deposit near
Bridlington, &c.

C. Loscombe, Esq. . . . Pentacrinus briareus from Lyme Regis;

zoophyta, testacea, fish teeth, &c., from
the oolitic rocks of Pickwick, Steeple
Ashton, &c. ; shells from the London
clay and calcaire grossier, &c. eve.

THE MUSEUM.

27

Rev. Thos. Lewis . . Catenipora, and other zoophyta, trilobites,

&c. from the transition limestone and
slate of Herefordshire.

Viscount Milton ............ Vesicular coke, formed hy combustion in a

colliery at Rawmarsh.

Gideon Man tell. Esq. ... Fishes in various states of preservation ;

ammonites, hamites, and other fossils
from the chalk of Sussex ; plants, teeth
of iguanodon, and other fossils to illus¬
trate the Geology of the Wealden forma¬
tion.

R. I. Murchison, Esq. Pre- Insects from the lacustrine formation of
sident G. S. Aix, in Provence.

H. Osbaldeston, Esq. ...... Tufa from Askerne.

Cooper Preston, Esq . Bones of wolf, ox, &c. from an ancient

river-channel near Flashy, in Craven.

H. Pease, Esq . . Bones of horse and ox from Hessle.

Mr. J. P. Pritchett . . Granite and slate from Wicklow.

R. H. Roundell, Esq . Corals, product®, cirri, and other fossils

from the mountain limestone of Gled-
stone, in Craven.

Miss Frances Strickland ... Unio Listeri, from the lias of Craycombe,

Worcestershire.

Rev. E. Stillingfleet . . Fragments of concamerated shells. Hotham.

Rev. Christ. Sykes ......... Lower jaw of didelphine quadruped, ob¬
tained from the Stonesfield slate more
than forty years since, by Mr. Joseph
Platt, of Oxford,

Mrs. Thorpe .. . . Teeth and bones of hyaena, rhinoceros, ox,

&c. from Kirkdale Cave ; large mass of
wood, portions of ichthyosaurus, and
other fossils from the coast of Yorkshire.

Miss Wickham ............ Galerites from the chalk.

MINERALOGY

Ignatius Bonomi, Esq. ... Specimens of coralloidal and other varie=

ties of arragonite, from Dufton.

Miss Buckle . . . Concretionary agate, coast of Yorkshire.

Rev. W. Buckland, D. D. Crystallized sulphur, sulphate of strontian,

sulphate of lime, &c., from Sicily.

Mr. R. Burdekin . Septarimn filled with pearl spar, &c.

Rev. D, R. Currer . . Mass of galena.

Rev. Stephen Creyke . Tabular quartz, radiated iron ore.

Joseph Carne, Esq. * ...... 100 Cornish minerals, including various

sulphurets of copper and silver, tennan-
tite, bournonite, arseniates of copper and
iron, wood iron ore, uranite, pinite, nectic
quartz, arragonite, apatite, &c.

John Grimston, Esq. . . Octohedral sulphuret of lead, and dog’s

tooth carbonate of lime, Derbyshire.

Mr. King, Hull . . Specimens of the iron ore of Dannemora. ^

Mrs. Knapton ... . Large crystal of carb. of lime, Derbyshire.

C. Loscombe, Esq . Apatite, tourmaline, haytorite, uranite,

capped quartz, and other minerals of
Cornwall and Devonshire.

Mrs. Roddam . . . Mass of crystallized sulphate of barytes

from the mines near Pately Bridge.

Mrs. Thorpe . . . A series of minerals from Siberia, Ger¬

many, &e.

Dr. Wasse . . . Brown arseniate of lead from Caldbeck

fells.

Mr. Copsie . . . . Arseniates of lead and copper, with other

minerals from Cumberland.

* This donation was received in 1830, but accidentally omitted in the Repoit
for that year.

ZOOLOGY,

Rev. J. Acaster . . .

Skull of a babyrussa.

Mr. Thos. Allis . .

Pair of gadwalls ( Anas strepera.)

Three living testacellae.

Mr. Oswald Allen . .

Four Taeniae.

Mr. Thomas Backhouse ...

20 foreign insects.

Mr. James Backhouse .

100 foreign shells.

Mr. Henry Baines . .

100 British insects.

Mr. Barclay . . .

Large specimen of fungia patella.

Mr. John Bugg, Rise . .

A bittern.

Wm. Blanshard, Esq .

A Solan goose.

Mr. S. Barber . . .

A young cuckoo.

Mr. John Bell .

Triton variegatum, cassis tuberosa.

Varley Bealby, Esq .

A bittern.

Mr. J. F. Brown . . .

Placuna sella, murex crassispina, and
other shells from Ceylon.

Mrs, Best .; . .

Egg of the alligator, emperor moth,,
( Saturnia pavonia Linn.) &c.

Miss Benett .

Series of uniones, anodonta, &c. from
Wiltshire ; Corallines, stellerida, crus-*
tacea, &c. from Weymouth.

Mr. Bolland .

A flying fish.

Lieut. Col. Chatterton . .

Pholas crispata in perforations of red
marl, from Exmouth.

Rev. Stephen Creyke . .

20 foreign shells, including select species;
of the genera helix, pyrula, ranellsu
mitra, terebra, cassis, &c.

30

DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM.

Miss Croft...... . .

Thomas Duesbury, Esq.'...
Mr. Dunn, Hull ... .

Wm. Danby, Esq. . . .

Lieut. Dixon., R.N .

Mr. Edward Elgin .........

C. H. Elsley, Esq .

Mr. T. Hornby . .

John Gould., Esq. M.Z.S. .

Head of a toucan.

20 birds from South America.

Eggs of several marine birds from the
Orkneys.

Fishes, Crustacea, and corallines from
Hastings.

Horn and foot of the rein deer.

Specimens of cetonia aurata from Spain.

A sparrow-hawk.

A white rook.

Horny excrescence on the ear of a sheep.

Several new species of birds from the
Himalya mountains.

N. C. Gould, Esq. ..
George Kirlew, Esq.

Rev. Joseph Reade . .

Mrs. Wharton Myddelton .

Capt. H. J. Porter . . .

Mr. Richard Ripley ........

John Robinson, Esq. ......

Capt. Slyfield, RsM. ..

Several birds from Brazil.

Crocodilus acutus, ( Cuv. Young,') Jamaica;
cassis cornuta, and c. tuberosa ; malleus
vulgaris, madrepora muricata, &c.

Pair of Leiochiton Readii.

Series of foreign and British shells.

8 birds from South America.

Meandrina labyrinthics.

Cast of the head of a dugong.

Insects, snakes, &c. from the West
Indies.

Mrs. Short . . .

Miss Tomlinson . .

Miss Wickham... . . . .

A Lady . . . .

Mr. Wm. Whytehead......

Mrs. Henry Wood .........

Death's-head moth, ( Sphinx atropos.J
24 species of British shells.

Euryale caput medusae, comatula.
Turbo iris.

Tridacna gigas, and other shells.
Spirula peronii, (Shore at Sidmouth.)

BOTANY.

DONATIONS TO THE HERBARIUM.

Mr. Cattley, St. Petersburgfi 300 Dried Plants of Russia.

J. S. Walton, Esq. ......... Fruit of the Seychelle islands palm ;

legume of Acacia scandens.

Rev. E. W. Stillingfleet ... Lusus of an Ash tree.

DONATIONS TO THE GARDEN,

Directors of the Liverpool A collection of Hardy Plants.

Botanical Garden

J. W. Childers, Esq . Section of a large oak from the alluvium of

Sykehouse.

COINS AND ANTIQUITIES,

Mr. Bell, Bridge-street ... Coin of Henry V.

Mrs. Best . Various Roman antiquities.

Dr. Beckwith . . Various coins, Roman and English,

Rev. D. R. Currer . 19 silver coins ; 4 silver tokens ; 21 cop-

Miss Grimston and
Mrs, Regard . .

A collection of copper tokens.

32 COINS AND ANTIQUITIES.

Mrs, Hawkesworth ......... A coin of Athelstan; Edward VI. shilling;

Elizabeth sixpence ; Charles I. Newark
shilling; dollar of Phillip III. of Spain ;
Albertin et Eliz. ; six small copper coins
of Holland,, &c.

Rev. W. V. Harcourt Coins and antiquities, found in the choir

and nave of the old crypt.

R. Hobson, Esq. ............ Fragments of ancient pottery, dug up m

York.

W. H, Hearon, Esq . Silver tokens ; 147 copper tokens.

C. Loscombe, Esq . . Medal of Oliver Cromwell.

Miss Phillips . . 27 modern coins.

Wm. Priestley, Esq. ...... 115 silver modern coins ; 159 copper.

Rev. J. Reade . . Coin of Cunobelin.

E. Strickland........... . 18 Roman coins, found out of Micklegate

Bar.

Mr. Todd . . . Small Greek sculpture.

Mr. R. Tuke . . . A ring.

N. E. Yarburgh, Esq. ...... A stone coffin, containing the remains of

a body covered in plaster, and various
ornaments, found in Heslington-field.

Mr. S. Woodward ............ 14 seals, and several duplicates.

Rev. C. Wellbeloved. 2 fragments of capitals, &e. found under

the Bar Walls, and 1 small gold ring*

Mr. Crabtree . . Roman curiosities, excavating at York.

DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.

Wm. Alexander . . Two MS. records, relating to the History

of York, folio, formerly belonging to
the late Dr. White, of York.

The Society of Arts . Vol. 48, Part. 1, of their Transactions.

Miss Atkinson . Drawing of the dislocated strata in Alum

Bay.

Societe des Antiquaires du Programme de la Societe.

Nord

Thomas Allan, Esq . . 4 Engravings of Fingal’s Cave, and the

“ Foot prints” of Lochmaben.

John Atkinson, jun. Esq. Drawing of a fossil tree, near Leeds.
Leeds

Miss Benett . 2 copies of her Catalogue of Wiltshire

fossils, folio and 4to, with plates.

Rev. W. Buckland, D. D. On the elephantine and other remains in
(the Author) Escholtz Bay, &e,

Mrs. Best . * Rousseau’s Botany, 8vo.

Fawkes’s Modern Chronology.

Mr. J. F. Brown . Portrait of Mr. Beckwith, the antiquary.

Dr. Brewster, (the Author) On a new Analysis of solar light, 4to.
Professor Babbage . His Table of Logarithms, 8vo„

Cambridge Phil. Society ... Transactions, Vol. 4, Part 1.
Cornwall Geological Society 17th Annual Report.

Rev. W. Conybeare . . His Inaugural Address to Bristol College.

Mr. Copsie . Goedart de Insectis, 3 vol. 12mo, plates.

Rev. S. Creyke ............... Schotti Teehnica Curiosa.

D

34

DONATIONS TO

Dr. Crook idiibHI • • • •

M. Von Dechen, Berlin ...

Dr. Daubeny, (the Author)

Wm. Danby, Esq. .........

(the Author)

John Dalton. Esq . .

Edinburgh Royal Society. .

James D. Forbes, Esq. ...

Charles Frost, Esq .

Rev. W. Flower, jun. ......

Geological Society . .

Jonathan Gray, Esq. ......

Mrs. F. Grimston and ...^
Mrs. G. Legard . J

H. H. Goodall, Esq. ......

Blr. James Harrison, Bar¬
ton on Humber

Rev. Joseph Hunter .

(the Author)

Dr. Henry . ...

J. F. W. Johnston, Esq. .
(the Author)

Dr. Johnston, (the Author)

John Murray, Esq . .

(the Author)

Chart of Phrenology.

Geognostiche Charte der Rheinlander, &e.
by Oeynhausen, de la Roche, and Von
Dechen.

On Bromine and Iodine in English
Mineral Waters, 4to.

On the Atomic Theory, 8vo>

Three Volumes of his Works.

His Meteorological Essays, 1787.

Transactions of the Society, Vol. XL
Part I.

His Essay on the Horary Oscillations of
the Barometer.

His Address to the Hull Literary and
Philosophical Society, 8vo, 183CL

Translation of the two first volumes of
Cuvier’s Comparative Anatomy, 8vo»

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