i>' *-. t k i I > I I j, r" 1 . IT f* - - ;.7^^ I *s , ’ -■ . . > [fi K'' t-- t - X f- '•V. ' .A 'iJ. '< , ■ ., V.,a .i. s?c^i 1 ‘Wx- 4 'i i i ■ "■rv’y • ' ' • . ; t / ’ i C' A • ■* '> ANNUAL REPORT FO.U MDCCCXXXIX A N N U A L R E P 0 R T OF THE COUNCIL OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY MDCCCXXXIX. PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING FEBRUARY 4tH, 1840. YORK: THOM.AS WILSON AND SONS, HIGH-OUSEGATE. 1840. 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. AND 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 ^orfesljiiT iPItlosop^ifal ^ocictg. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. Her Royal Highness 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 IVHARNCLIFFE. THE LORD WENLOCK. * OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1840. PRESIDENT : Earl Fitz william, F.R.S. VICE-PRESIDENTS : Hon. W'jlliam Henry Dawnay, Rev. Thomas Egerton, E.G.S. Rev. William Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S, Baldwin Wake, M.D. Francis Cholmeley, F.S.A. Rev. Robert Bryan Cooke, F.G.S. William Garforth. Eustachius Strickland. TREASURER: Robert Davies. COUNCIL: Elected 1837 . Rev, John Ivenrice, Elected 1838 . George Goldie, M.D. William Hatfeild, F.G.S. Thomas Meynell, jun., F.L.S. Henry S males. Elected 1839 . Henry Philip Cholmeley, Rev, Stephen Creyke, Rev. William Henry Dixon, F.S.A. Elected 1840 ...... Thomas Allis, Favel James Copsie, William Gray, jun., F.G.S. Rev, Charles Wellbeloved. SECRETARIES: John Phillips, F.R.S., G.S Henry Robinson. a 3 VI OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. CURATORS: Rev. John Graham ... William Hatfeild, F.G.S.... Thomas Allis ThomasMeynelLjJUN.F.L.S. y Rev.J.J.D.PrestoNjF.C.P.S. j Geology. Mineralogy. Comparative Anatomy. Entomology. Rev. Charles Wellbeloved Joseph Munby... Thomas Hanley Barker i John Harwoob ... J Antiquities and Coins. Library. Laboratory. KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM: John Phillips, F.R.S., G.S., ke. SUB-CURATORr Mr. Henry Baines. YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEB. 4, 1840. The Council of tbe Yorkshire Philosophkal Society, on presenting the Report of their Proceedings since the last Annual Meeting, are desirous of directing the attention of the Members to those 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 into 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 4 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 vertebrated 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 Y ork, 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 llailv/ay 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 llEPORT 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 atten4ing 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 £^0. ; the profits arising from the exhibition were £6^. ; and as the Treasurer has since received L^IO. for the loan of the tent, the purchase may not be considered disadvantageous in a financial point of view. COUNCIL FOR 1839. 11 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 Mary gate, 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. 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 £^20. 8^. 9d., the annual rent receivable is T^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 gi'eat 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 reo:ardin2C 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 OP THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, IN ACCOUNT. Dr. 1839, Annual Subscriptiens of 194 Mem" bers at 2Z. each - . - - Ditto of 4 Members at IZ. each Arrears of former years - - - Annual Subscriptions of Ladies for keys of the gardens - - - For tickets of admission at Is. each For Admission of 19 new Members For Admission and Composition of 5 Members ----- For Composition of 1 Member Rents of the Manor Shore Estate and of the Marygate Houses re¬ ceived in 1839 - - - - Balance of the proceeds of the Hor¬ ticultural Exhibition - - - Lord Wenlock for the use of Tent Arrears of Subscriptions for the Evening Meetings for Gas Light - 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 Cr. £. s. 1838, December 31, £. s. d. By principal money owing 388 0 0 to the Yorkshire In- 4 0 0 surance Company - 2500 0 0 24 0 0 By principal money owing to Wm. Gray, 43 10 0 Esq. - - - - 1000 0 0 46 13 0 By eight principal sums 95 0 0 of 50?. owing to eight Members of the So- 126 0 0 ciety - - - 400 0 0 20 0 0 By balance due to Messrs. Swann & Co. this day 606 13 8 94 3 9 4506 13 8 1839. 67 7 1 Crown Rent, one year - - 1 0 8 10 0 0 Corporation Rent, ditto - 6 12 6 Water Rent, five quarters - 6 18 0 21 1 0 Insurance, one year - 5 0 0 1 10 0 Keeper of the Museum, one year’s Salary . - 100 0 0 Lodge Keeper, ditto - 10 0 0 5307 3 1 Audited Feb. 4, 1840, WM. GRAY,jun. EDWARD ELGIN. £.6247 7 11 Sub-Curator, on account of Salary, Labour in Garden, Incidents, &c. 250 One year’s Interest of 2500?. to the Yorkshire Insurance Company - 100 Ditto of 1000?. to Wm. Gray, Esq. 40 Purchase money of Houses in Mary¬ gate, and expenses of conveyance 720 8 Sundry annual bills, viz. perchecksonSwann&Co. 283 17 0 per Mr. H. Robinson - 100 17 10 per ditto - - - 11 13 0 per Treasurer - - 1 17 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 398 5 4 Purchase of Tent - - - 70 0 0 Interest to Messrs, Swann & Co. 32 9 0 £.6247 7 11 The arrears of subscriptions amount to about 200?. 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. : £. s. d. Rent to the Crown 1 0 8 Rent to the Corporation 6 12 6 Water Rent 6 18 0 Poor Rates 19 18 G Insurance 5 0 0 Salaries and AVages : Keeper of the Museum 100 0 0 Sub-Curator 70 0 0 Servant and Cleaning Rooms 20 0 0 Lodge-Keeper 10 0 0 Labourer 33 0 0 Boy, for 6 months... 9 12 0 Collector ... . . 5 0 0 Interest on Debt, &c. : Mortgage Debt on Manor Shore 100 0 0 Interest on £1000., at 4 per cent. 40 0 0 Interest to Bankers for being overdrawn 32 9 0 Museum : New Cabinet for Insects 20 0 0 Miscellaneous, including Furniture and Repairs 76 9 8 Purchase and preparation of Specimens 15 18 8 Expenses on antiquities from Railway 19 5 9 Garden, Grounds, &c. : Garden and Grounds 25 19 6 St. Mary’s Abbey, Repairs of 10 7 0 Library : Books and Binding Printing, &c. : Printing Stationery Advertising Subscription to Hospitium 42 13 1 18 24 12 0 6 1 39 9 8 247 12 0 172 9 0 131 14 1 36 6 6 11 7 3 69 3 Incidents, including Coals, Coke, Gas, Postage, Carriage, &c. ... 51 12 7 1 £759 14 2 Extraordinary Expenses. Executors of the late Dr. Wasse, Principal Money advanced by him to the Society Purchase of Ten Houses in Marygate ... ... 720 8 9 Repairs and alterations in ditto ... ... 34 18 9 Purchase of new Tent and Cord for ditto ... Making New Road, fixing new and altering old Fences, preparing Ground, &c. on the Manor Shore ... 50 0 755 7 71 1 123 12 0 6 7 1 £1000 1 2 RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEB. 4tll, 1840, The Rev. Stephen Creyke, M. A. in the Chair. 1 . That the Right Hon. Lord W enlock be requested to become a Patron of the Society. 2. That the Rev. Win. Hincks, F.L.S., late Curator of Botany, be elected an Honorary Member. 3. That the Report 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 Admission of Strangers 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 Admission to the Museum and Gardens to all persons ; the mode of admission to be regulated by the Council. 6. '’J’'hat the Resolutions of the last Annual Meeting, empowering the Council to authorise the holding of one or more Horticultural 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 £60., 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. S IT B S C }l I B I N G M E M B E R S OF THK YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, ELECTED IN 1839-40. 1839, Bosville, Alexander, Thorpe.^ near Bi'idlington. Bebb, George, Vorh. Bradwell, Joseph, Yoi'k. 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 Parky Cacstcmy Huntingdonshire. Drake, Rev. James Ashton, Motvhray Hilly near Masham. Gaskell, William, York, Grayston, James, York. Harris, Charles, Fuyoi^d GrangCy near York, Husband, William Dalla, York. Harrison, Rev. William Estcourt, York, Hardman, William, York. Hood, Wells, York. Key worth, Henry, Yoi'k. Matterson, William, jun., Yoyk. North, William Graves, York. Russell, Henry, York. Smith, Edwin, Acomhy York, Simpson, Green, Yoik. Spence, Joseph, Yoy'k. Swale, Joseph, York. Wilson, Edwardy Clifton y near York. 1840. Barnes, Robert, York. Carruthers, W. J., Arthington Hally Leeds. Dobson, Rev. John, York. Howard, Charles, York. Kay, Sir John Lister Lister, Bart., York. Markham, Rev. Henry Spencer, Residence y York, and Clif ton, Notts. Thurnam, John, York. SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS TO THE GExNERAL MEETINGS. Feb. 5, 1839. — Letter accompanying a donation of several beauti¬ ful Encaustic Tiles_, from H. Bower, Esq., F.A.S. May 7, 1839. — On Symbols, Avith reference especially to Numis¬ matics, by the Rev. Charles Welle eloved. Curator of Antiquities. Oct. 1, 1839. — Letter from W. Hateeild, 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. Cholraeley, Esq., Rev, C. Sykes, Mr. John Ford, Rev, \V. Blanchard, DONATIONS TO THE SOCIETY’S MUSEUM. GEOLOGY. Thomas Allis ..o ... Fossils from the lias of Gloucestershire, including TrocJius anglicus, Hippo^ dium ponderosim, &:c. Thomas Barstoiv, Esq. Masses of gypsum (variously crystal¬ lized), from the line of the York and North Midland Railway, near Fair- burn. H. P. Cholmeley, Esq. Fruit and investing leaves of Zamia gU gantea, from Kettle ness. Sir P. Egerton, Bart., F.G.S. Cast of the foot of Cheirotherium Her¬ cules, from the red sandstone of Che¬ shire. ■James Hamer ton. Esq. ... Fossil fruits (fir-cones, &c.), wood, and shells, all pyritized, from Herne Bay. Lady Frances Harcourt A collection of corals and shells, from the upper silurian rocks of Hereford¬ shire. Rev, C. V. Harcourt Wm. Hatfeild, F.G.S. George Pollard, Esq. ,. Trilobites (Isotelus, Calyraene,) 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. -J. Spence, Esq. . . ... Bones of horse, deer, &c., from near Well in Yorkshire. H. T, M. Witham, F.G.S. Cast of a jaw, from Burdie House, near Edinbura:h. T. o Jb ^ ZOOLOGY. Thomas Allis Wm. Allen^ Esq. ... Rev. C. Constable ... ... Skin of the tapir Mexicanus. ... A large species of pinna, taken round Cape Horn. ... A red- throated diver. Rev. Archdeacon Corbett, by T. Walker Miss E. Dalton Rev. J. Dalton Eighty birds, from the Himalaya moun¬ tains, &c. Eggs of the cut-throat sparrow. The porbeagle shark. Lieut. Edward Dixon, R. N.. by Dr. Wake Frank Foljambe, Esq. A species of diodon and the devil-fish, from the M^est Indies. Grey cat, shot in Rossshire. Mr. Mawson . A black and white rook, shot at Butler- crambe. T. Meynell, jun. F.L.S. Natural History Society of Newcastle, Durham, and Northumberland R. Parnell, M.D. ... 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. R, R. Pearce, Esq. ... Coccoon and perfect insect of the puss moth. James Richardson, Esq. ... A fine specimen of Scarabaeus Hercules. Joseph Clarke, f Cincinnati J Land and fresh- water shells, (including .many unionidae) from the United States of America. Lieut. Baldwin ArdenWake, Meandrina, nullipora, and other corals, R.N. from the VFest Indies. ~ ’^V'arren, (Dublin ) .. Forty species, including kocardia cor, patella clealandi, &c. (in all 250 speci¬ mens) collected in Ireland, chiefly ou the Eastern coast, near Dublin, B O T A N Y. Mrs. G. Brown Miss Cattley ... A collection of sea- weeds. 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 ... ... ... rans. Captain Porter Mr. Rivers ... Edwin Smith, Esq. ... Collection of 70 seeds, some of them new, fromPanama and other parts of America. ... Twenty-four roses. Portion of one of the cedars, of Libanus (cut from the tree by himself). Rev, Isaac Spencer ... Twenty species of seeds, from Brazil. ANTIQUITIES, &c. Oswald Allen, Esq. Mr. Baker ... ... H. Bower, Esq • • T. Hodgson Mr. Hands ... — — Keld, Esq. ... J, Mushin, Esq. , , .... Ancient inscribed stone, from St. Saviour- gate. ... Ornamented brass box. „.. Nine square glazed tiles. . . . An arquebuss.- ... Cast of tbe Venus de’ Medici. ... Stycas, from Hexham. ... Casts of Greek and other coins. 22 DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY. Mr. Pitcairn ... ... A glazed Roman vessel^ from the rail¬ way excavations. Edmund Horsfall Roper, The ancient brass horn, anciently used Esq. Sheriff of York for by the Sheriffs of York as a symbol of 1838 and 1839, and W. office. North, Esq., the present Sheriff York and North Midland Roman votive stone, portions of a bath. Railway Company 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 TO THE LIBRARY. Birmingham Philosophical Report for 1838. Institution British Association for the Reports of the Association, for 1838. Advancement of Science Cambridge Philosophical Society Transactions of the Society, Vol. VII. Part 1. C. H. Elsley, Esq . Ogilby’s Roads of England, 1698, folio. W. H.Fitton, M.D., F.R.S., Review of LyelFs Geology, 8vo, 1839. G.S. C the Author) Professor Forbes, F.R.S. Memoir on the Colours of Steam, 4to. ( the Author J Geological Society of London Proceedings of the Society. W. H. Hearon, Esq. ... Three old York Newspapers, viz. Cou- rant. No. 66, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 1726, 4to; Ditto, No. 159, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1728, 4to. ; Ditto, No. 582, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 1736, folio. DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY- 23 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.R.S. ... 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) Print of Orthagoriscus Mola. Catalogue of Remarkable Plants groAving 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¬ paedia, 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, 4to. A Delhi Gazette, in the Persian lan¬ guage. Report for 1837-8. Scriptural Geology, 1839, 8vo. (Thomas Wilso7i and Sons, High-Ousegate, York.) ■JS MAR 1886 ■ ■ ••■''5 I , ♦‘I / .' , •■'Vn ■ - Mi:!' ■ V jk V ' ^ ' . ■ ■■■ ; . • '.a-r- ,' ' . 4, . ■■.-■•' ■ ■ ifunt'i ■ ''..v; .„.v. 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