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MDCCCXXXVI.

PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING

FEBRUARY 7lH, 1837.

YORK:

THOMAS WILSON AND SON^, HIGH-OUSEG ATE.

1837.

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CONTENTS.

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

REPORT OF the Council .

Treasurer’s Annual Accounts ...

Scientific Communications .

Donations to the Museum

Donations TO THE Library ... .

New Members .

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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 YorJc, called “ The Yorkshire
Philosophical Society f for the use of the said Society,
the sum of to he paid out cf 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.

T II U S T E E S

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. AND 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.

AVILLIAM LAWSON, ESQ.

EUSTACHIUS STRICKLAND, ESQ.

RICHARD JOHN THOMPSON, ESQ.

PATRONESSES

OF

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Her Royai. Highness The DUCHESS OF KENT.
Her Royal Highness The 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 :

The Earl Fitzwilliam, F.R.S.

VICE-PRESIDENTS :

Rev. William Vernon PIarcourt, F.R.S.
Wm. Hatfeild, F.G.S.

James Atkinson.

Baldwin Wake, M.D.

George Lane Fox.

Henry Preston.

Rev. S. Creyke.

Thomas Barstow.

©FFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.

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TREASURER:

Jonathan Gray.

COUNCIL:

Elected 1835 . Rev. Robert Bryan Cooke, F.G.S.

Charles Heneage Elsley.
Francis Cholmeley, F.S.A.

Rev. Charles Wellbeloved.

Elected 1836 . James Barber.

H. S. Belcombe, M.D.

William Blanshard.

Rev. Thomas Egerton, F.G.S.

Elected 1837 . Edward Elgin.

Rev. John Kenrick.

Eustachius Strickland.

John Wolstenholme.

SECRETARIES:

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

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OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.

CURATORS:

Rev. John Graham
William Hatfeild, F.G.S. ...
James Atkinson
Thomas Allis
Rev. J. B. Graham

Geology.

Mineralogy.
Comparative Anatomy.

Ornithology.

Rev. I. J. D. Preston, F.C.P.S.
Rev. W. Hincks, F.L.S.

Rev. C. Wellbeloved
Henry Robinson

Entomology.

Botany.

Antiquities and Coins.
Library.

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

SUB-CURATOR:

Henry Baines.

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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 Mary gate, 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 a
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 cCrtain rnecessary 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 <F.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 Homan 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 has 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 tlie 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 Instil
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,
Hatieild, Mr. Prestwich, Mr. Wm. Gray, Professor Phillips,
and Mr. Plarcourt, to the already large collections in the
Geological Museum, the Council wishes to call especial at-
tention to the noble monument of the ancient condition of the
British Islands, the great extinct Elk of Ireland, presented
])y G. L. Pox, 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 Zoological
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 orchideae have been given by Mr.
S. 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 Library has been chosen as the place to receive one
of the most gratifying of ail 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 Y orkshire
iMuseum, to perpetuate the memory of the services rendered
to the Institution by the Bev. 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 (P130.) the amount of the general debt would have been
reduced <P40.

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 IMuseum 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.

CTENACANTHUS TENUISTRIATUS,
Exom. the Mountain Limestone of Shropshire,
Presented hj the Rev. T. Lewis.

ANNUAL ACCOUNT.

RECEIPTS.

£.

s.

d.

Received Annual Subscriptions from 220 Members at 21.

440

0

0

Ditto from 5 at IL

••• ••• • • •

5

0

0

C Sir Charles Ibbetson
Annual Donations i _

C Mrs. Danby

5 5 0)

2 0 0?

7

5

0

From Ladies, being Annual Subscribers

•••

31

0

0

For Keys of Garden

•e» ••• •••

10

15

0

For Gas consumed at Evening Meetings

••• •••

1

10

0

For Tickets of Admission, deducting expense

of Sale

56

3

0

Balance due to the Treasurer

e*« ««• 44*

65

17

10

^.617 10 10

Arrears clue to the Society on this account c. 0 0

ANNUAL ACCOUNT

9

PAYMENTS.

£9 s» (l» <£ • s» (I*

Rent and Taxes ;

Rent to the Crown ... ... ... ... 10 8

Rent to the Corporation ... ... ... 612 6

Rates ... ... ... ... ... 15 11 0

Water rent ... ... ... ... 4 4 0

Insurance ... ... ... ... ... 5 0 0

Salaries and Wages :

Keeper of the Museum
Sub-curator

Labour in Garden and Museum

Lodge-keeper

Collector and Messenger

Printing :

Report for 1835, including wood engraving
Miscellaneous

31 18 2

... 100 0 0
... 65 0 0
... 40 0 0
... 10 0 0
... 1 11 6
— - 216 11 6

... 17 0 6
... 4 6 0

Stationery

Books and Binding :
Books
Binding

Garden and Grounds ;

21 6 6
1 15 4

... 41 13 6
... 7 13 6

- 49 7 0

Buckley, for wall, improvements of entrance, &c.

Advanced towards greenhouse

Miscellaneous

33 15 6
20 0 0
29 11 6

Repairs and Furniture

Carriage, postage, and incidents
Gas and candles
Coke and coal

... 8 11 8

... 7 7 2

... 19 12 0

Purchase and preparation of specimens
Interest on debt

83 7 0
82 2 4

35 10 10
32 2 2
63 10 0

of.617 10 10

GENERAL ACCOUNT.

«

Received Arrears of for-

£,

s.

d.

By Balance due to

£.

the

d.

mer years

44

0

0

Treasurer, 1835

... 1728

12

9

....... Admission of six

By Balance due on

the

members

18

0

0

Observatory, 1835

... 130

2

10

. . Donation from

By Balance due on

An-

Miss Currer ...

25

0

0

nual Account, 1836

65

17

10

. . Ditto from

Earl Fitzwilliam

21

0

0

Balance due to the Treasurerl816

13

5

£.1

924

13

5

£.1924

13

5

£. s. d.

Arrears on Annual Account ... 58 0 0

Arrears on General Account ... 110 0 0

£.168 0 0

PRESENT STATE OF ACCOUNT AS TO THE

PURCHASE OF THE MANOR SHORE ESTATE.

s» d»

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 0

Received half a year’s
rents due to the Society,

Michaelmas, 1836 .. 68 14 6

Present deficit ... ... 69 7 0

£.2658 11 6

£. ds

Paid the Commissioners of
the Woods and Forests
for half a year’s rent due
Lady-day, 1836 ... 34 16 0

Paid them for purchase of
the ground ... ... 2500 0 0

Paid them for the expenses
of conveyance ... ... 30 0 0

Paid sundry expenses in
dividing and inclosing the
land, roads, &c. ... 43 15 6

Paid half a year’s interest
on the mortgage, due No¬
vember 4th, 1836 ... 50 0 0

£.2658 11 6

JON A. GRAY,

TREASURER.

SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS

TO THE

GENERAL MEETINGS.

March, 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.

October. — 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.

December. — Notices of the lower Jaw of Palseotherium, from the
Isle of Wight, &e„ 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 a circle of given radius, by W. D. Littledale, Esq.

Ingleborough, from the S. W.

Phillips's Geology of Yorkshire, Vol. II.

DONATIONS

TO

THE S 0 C I E T Y’S MUSEUM.

GEOLOGY.

Bristol Institution

Mr, J, F. Brown

Mr. F, J. Copsie

ee. Fine cast of the head and anterior parts of
ichthyosaurus.

0 0* 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.

Messrs. Craven and Co. coo Mass of pyritized wood, from near Castle-

thorpe, Northamptonshire.

Rev. T. Dury ... ... Calamites from millstone grit, Keighley ;

spirifera resupinata from the millstone
grit series near Brimham.

Rev. T. Egerton, F.G.S. A series of fossils from the detached basin

of lias in Cheshire.

G, L. Fox ... ... 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 vertebrse. 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

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.

ITm. Gray, F.G.S. and Fossils from the Yorkshire coast, including
Prof. Phillips new species of conchifera, hamites, &c,

from Speeton ; plants, Crustacea, &c,
from the oolitic system.

Wm. Gray, F.G.S. ..o New fossils, from Brandsby ; hamites,

Speeton large shelly masses from the
Kelloways rock, Scarborough.

Miss A. Gurney ... ... Bones of elephant, deer, &c. from Happis-

burgh ; ostrea canaliculata, &:c, from the
chalk of Norfolk.

Rev. W. V. Harcourt,
F.G.S.

W. Ilatfeild, F.G.S.

Rev. T. Lewis, F.G.S.

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 palseotherium, 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 sphsericus ; marsupites, spongia,
&c. from Bridlington.

Mass of fish bones, &c. from the Ludlow
formation (Silurian system).

Prof. Phillips, F.R.S., Remains of fishes, from Burdie House ;

G.S. 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 Ireland, Yorkshire, &c.

14

DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM..

J. Prestwichj 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 .

Mr. J. Yeoman ...

... A bivalve shell, from the Himalaya.

... Fore and hind paddles of ichthyosaurus.

MINERALOGY.

Mr. J. F. Brown .

Rev. J. Dunnington

Rev. W. Hincks, F.L.S —
Mr. W. Trueman

Mass of crystallized quartz.

Pyrites and calc spar from a 'fault'' in
coal measures near Barnsley.

Quartz from Trenton Falls, U. S.
Crystallized sulphate of lime from a col¬
liery in Durham,

ZOOLOGY.

T. Allis . . . Three species of columbadae ; eighty fishes

from the Mediterranean (in spirits).

Wm. Hatfeild, F.G.S. ... Heron, gull, eared grebe, siskin.

Achatina zebra.

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

Miss Jane Hird ...

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Terebra vittata and t. lineolata.
Phaeton asthereus, m. and /.

DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM.

15

Capt. E. Markham ... 137 Australian birds, including the lyre

tail, m. and f, ( mmura ) ; rifle
bird (promerops superhus) to. and f,;
Columba magnijlca, c. dilophus^ phaeton,
psittacidcB, &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
E. Strickland, Esq.
Mr. John Taylor ...
B. Wake, M.D.

... Fungia lima and fungia pileus.

... Faithful jacana ; bustard.

. . . Specimen of ceramby x in wood, from Africa.

... 29 Birds from the Himalaya, including

myophonus horsfieldii ; bucco grandis ;
garrulus bispecularis, g. lanceolatus;
pica erythrorhynchus, &c.

Flying squirrel.

B O T A Y.

T. Backhouse . Stem of tree fern ( cyhodium BiUaudierii ),

S. Stutchbury, A.L.S. ... A series of epiphytic orchideae.

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

Royal Astronomical Society

F. Baily, F.R.S. ...

British Association for the
Advancement of Science

E. Charlesworth, F.G.S.

P. Duncan^ F.L.S.

Mr. G. Edwards ...

Geological Society

Natural History Society of
Manchester •

Mechanics’ Institute^ Man¬
chester

Statistical Society of Man¬
chester

Nat. Hist. Soc. of Shrop¬
shire and North Wales

Win. Priestley, Esq.

Hull Lit. and Phil. Soc. ;
Leeds Lit. and Phil. Soc.;
Scarbro’ Lit. and Phil.

Soc.

; Whitby Lit. and
Phil. Soc.

John Wood, Esq.

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