WKWikitm-. ¥orfe0l|)ire pi^iUisopiiical SocWg. ANNUAL EEPORT c MDCCCLIII. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY MDCCCLIII. PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEBRUARY, 1854, H. SOTHERAN, BOOKSELLER, CONEYSTREET. 1854. r I r |o; i. i • r > '.i ' \ \ ..f*. 4> a • '.»- ...» ,. 1 A‘fl I \ % > i ■■■ . •'N' , . ♦ r^' V* ;• _ 4.-' '»T' I - , • . J • . ".f -1 . ,'» • 4 :i 'V i TRUSTEES OF THE YORKSHIRE MUSEUM, APPOINTED BY BOYAL GRANT. CHAELES WILLIAM, EAEL FITZWILLIAM. THOMAS PHILIP, EAEL HE GEEY. HON. AND VEEY EEV. HENEY HOWAED, D. D. SIE WILLIAM LAWSON, BAET., F. S. A. EEANCIS CHOLMELEY, ESQ., F.S.A. EOBEET DENISON, ESQ. EEV. WILLIAM VEENON HAECOUET, F. E. S. PATRONESSES OF THE HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. H. R. H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT. PATRONS. THE ARCHBISHOP OF A^ORK. DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, F.R.S. EARL OF CARLISLE, F.R.S. EARL FITZWILLIAM, F. R. S. LORD FEVERSHAM. OFFICERS OF TFIE SOCIETY, 1854. PRESIDENT : Earl Fitzwilliam, F. R. S. VICE PRESIDENTS : Lord Londesborough, F. R. S. Rev. C. Wellbeloved. John Phillips, F. R. S. Rev. J. Ken rick. Harry Stephen Thompson. Thomas Meynell, Jun., F. L. S. John Ford. TREASURER : William Gray, F. G. S. COUNCIL : Elected 1852. . . .Rev. W. V. Harcourt, F. R. S. Rev. R. B. Cooke, F. G. S. Robt. Davies, F. S. A. Thomas Allis. Elected 1853. . . .Francis Cholmeley. Wm. Frederick Rawdon. Rev. Wm. Hey. O. A. Moore. Elected 1854. . . .Thomas Barstow. Wm. Whytehead. Geo. Dodsworth. Wm. Procter. SECRETARY : Thos. H. Travis. 6 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. CURATORS : Mineralogy . Comparative Anatomy . . Foreign Ornithology . . British Ornithology . . . Insecta and Crustacea . . Antiquarian Department . Library and Manuscripts . Professor Phillips, F.R.S. Thomas Allis. Thos. Meynell, Jun., F.L.S. W. Rudston Read, F.L.S. Rev. Wm. Hey. Rev. Charles Wellbeloved. Rev. J. Kenrick. The Rev. W. V. Harcourt, F. R.S. Observatory & Meteorology, under the care of a Committee I consisting of . Professor Phillips, F.R.S. Wm. Gray, F. G. S. Wm. L. Newman, F.R.Ast. S. John Ford. \Rev. 'Wm. Hey. KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM: Edward Ciiarlesworth, F. G. S. SUBCURATOR OF THE MUSEUM & GARDENS : Henry Baines. REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, Feb. 7th, 1854. Although on former anniversaries the Council have congra¬ tulated the Society on the retrospect of the preceding year, they have seldom, if ever, been enabled to render a more satisfactory account of its acquisitions than they have now the honour of offering to the Annual Meeting. In the Geological department, the Plesiosaurus, extracted from the Lias Cliffs, south of Whitby, by Mr. Brown Marshall, and liberally presented by Col. Cholmley, stands first in im¬ portance on the list of donations. This fine specimen includes the dentary portion of the lower jaw ; a chain of 88 vertebrae, extending nearly 18 feet in length ; the pelvic, with other bones of the trunk more or less crushed though hut little displaced ; the humeri and femora displaced ; and two paddles restored, with bones which may perhaps he admitted to belong to the extremities of this Plesiosaurus ; although restorations of this kind are in general to be discountenanced, as being seldom satisfactory to the comparative anatomist. By a curious and happy coincidence the two Plesiosauri, now in the Society’s possession, represent extremely opposite types of form, in the relation which the developement of the head and neck bears to the rest of the skeleton. In P. Zetlandicus (Phillips) the head is the most bulky and the neck probably the shortest of any known species ; while in the Plesiosaurus 8 REPORT OP THE now under consideration, it would appear that the head, judging from what remains of the lower jaw, is reduced to the minimum developement, and that the neck (most of the vertebrae of which have been removed and replaced) exhibits the maximum of elongation. The vertebral column displays many of the spinous processes in situ, several of them being in an unusual degree of perfection, and it is otherwise remarkable for exhibiting certain structural peculiarities, which may probably prove this Plesiosaurus to be Plesiosaurus Platyspondylus, a species discovered by Professor Owen, since his report to the British Association in 1839. Among other additions to the Geological Collection, may be noticed a very singular non-descript fossil body, from the lias of Whitby, of which the nature has not yet been determined. To Mr. Bunting, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, the Society is indebted for this specimen. Several valuable fossils have been presented by the Committee of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Club. Of these, the most remark¬ able is a large bivalve shell, from the Chalk, near Flambro’, probably of the genus Inoceramus, but distinguished from any known species by very peculiar and strongly marked characters. Some important additions have likewise been made to the tertiary collection, by the British Natural History Society ; and Mr. Clark, of Cincinnati, has contributed another series of choice Silurian fossils from America. In other departments of the Museum, the following are among the most important of the additions. To Mr. Clark, whose name has already occurred in this report as a liberal contributor, the Society are also indebted for some specimens of North American freshwater shells, of great interest, thus enriching our series of this beautiful group of Molliisca to the extent of nearly one hundred species. The same gentleman has also kindly undertaken to aid the Keeper of the Museum, in the revision of the arrangement of this portion of our Foreign collection, and is now preparing a Catalogue, with notes, upon all the species of American shells with which, from time to time, he has enriched the Society’s jMuseum, COUNCIL FOR 1853. 9 To the British Natural History Society we are also indebted for the following valuable addition to our collection of British Testaceous Molluscs, now rapidly approaching completion : Natica delicoides. Fusus Norvegicus. „ Turtoni. Of these, the first is new to the collection, while the other two are more perfect than our previous specimens ; and all three having been obtained on the Yorkshire Coast, namely, from Staithes, they have the additional value of belonging to our local Fauna. Frederick Bell, Esq., of Thirsk, has kindly presented to the Society, a specimen of the Great Auk, in excellent preservation. From its extreme rarity, the specimen thus obtained is a very valuable addition to the Rudston Collection of British Birds. To the series of Comparative Anatomy no additions have been made, but the Council are glad to be able to hold out a hope, that the Curator of that department (Mr. Allis) will at an early period complete a Catalogue of the specimens now under his charge. The Library has received several additions of interest and value, amongst which the Council will only notice a few. A Catalogue of Medieeval rings, &c., in the possession of Lord Londesborough, drawn up by T. Crofton Croker, Esq., presented by Lord Londesborough. The first and second numbers of Gould’s Humming Birds, by Mr. Allis. The subsequent numbers of this beautiful and in¬ structive work have been purchased by the Society. Walker’s Astronomy and Geology, and also Walker’s Con¬ tributions to Astronomy, &c., from the Board of Admiralty. London Tradesmen’s tokens, from the London Guildhall Library Committee. Diagrams for Geology of Plants, from the British Association ; Wylie’s Fairford Graves, from the Author; and Roman Roads &c., between Tees and Swale, from the Archgeological Institute. The Council have also to announce the addition to the Library of the Transactions and Proceedings of several learned Societies. 10 REPORT OF THE During the past year some very interesting papers have been read at the Monthly Meetings of the Society. The Council are glad to stale, that a number of The Transactions of the York¬ shire Philosophical Society/’ will very shortly be published. In the department of Antiquities, it is a subject of great satis¬ faction, that the excavations which have been carried on, during the past year, in various parts of the city and suburbs of York, have brought to light many interesting relics of Roman times, several of which have happily found a place in the Museum of the Society. The most important of these is the beautiful tessellated pavement, discovered in Toft Green ,* which, having been presented to the Society by the Corporation, was carefully removed, and has been skilfully and successfully transferred, under the direction of a Committee, to the lower room of the Hospitium. Another pavement, differing in its design, yet not less beautiful though unfortunately less perfect, together -with a large portion of the border of a third, discovered at the same time, in the immediate neighbourhood of the first, have also been removed and deposited in the upper room of the Hospitium, ready to be reconstructed whenever a proper place can be found for that purpose. Beneath the first pavement, a small brass coin was found, inscribed on the obverse DIVO CLilVDIO (Gothico), and on the reverse CONSECRATIO, clearly shew¬ ing that the work could not have been executed earlier than the latter part of the third century of the Christian era. The foundations of a Roman building, composed of large stones of grit, one of which is placed in the Museum, were lately dis¬ covered in Micklegate, near St. Martin’s Church ; determining, as the Curator of Antiquities thinks, the site of the temple of Serapis, re-built, as a tablet of the same material in possession of the Society records, by the Legate of the sixth Legion Claudius Hieronymianus. The Society is indebted to Mr. \Yaddington for a deposit of several interesting Roman remains, obtained from recent or former excavations on the Mount. Among them is the Sarcophagus on which is inscribed, in beautifully formed letters, the memorial of Theodorianus by his mother Theodora. The Museum of the Society now contains all the existing inscribed COUNCIL FOR 1853. 11 Sarcophagi known to have been found among Roman remains in York. The Council, on some former occasions, have had to refer to Floricultural and Horticultural Exhibitions, held in the Museum Gardens during the preceding year. To these the Council still look back with pleasure ; but it is with peculiar satisfaction they have now to notice, that during the meeting of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society in York, in August last, an Exhibition of an entirely novel kind, was presented to the Members and the Public, by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. It was described by the Council, in one of the programmes, to he An Exhibition of Plants, remarkable for variety, beauty, and utility in the Arts, comprising living plants and preparations of the parts most curious in structure, most instructive in physiology, or most valuable in food, medicine, and the Arts.” To enable them to effect an object of such importance, the Council sought from every quarter likely to afford it assistance and co-operation ; and from the Royal Gardens, Kew ; the Royal Botanic Society’s Garden, Regent’s Park ; the Royal Society’s Garden, Edinbro’ ; the Honourable the East India Company ; the Apothecary’s Garden, Chelsea ; His Grace the Duke of Northumberland ; Dr.' Bindley ; Professor Balfour ; Professor Royle ; and numerous other parties, the Council received the most friendly and valuable assistance, for which the Society is under lasting obligation. The result fully justified the most sanguine anticipations of the Council, as to the success of the Exhibition ; and the Council point with pleasure to the Appendix to this Report, containing a detailed account of the specimens exhibited, and an accurate list of the numerous friends who kindly rendered their valuable aid on this occasion. Observations on the thermometer and barometer have been kept up through the year, and the results have been exhibited in the vestibule of the Museum. Observations have been kept up on the transit instrument, which, with the clocks, is in a satisfactory state. 12 REPORT OF THE The following Meteorological Registrar has been received from Mr. Ford, to whom the Society has been indebted on many former occasions for similar annual statements. METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, YORK, 1858. BAROMETER. RAIN. THERMOMETER. Nights at or below 32® Prevailing Wind. Highest. 1 Lowest. Mean. 1 Average 1 Maximum. Average Minimum. Mean Temp. Highest. Lowest. 1 Inches. Days 1 Jan. 30-282 29-056 29-547 1-94 22 43-8 34-0 38-9 51-5 28-5 12 S. Feb. 30-392 28-888 29-641 2-51 24 36-8 26-0 31-4 43-5 12-0 23 N. W. Mar. 30-276 29-440 29-850 1-38 14 42-4 29-4 35-9 50-5 22-0 23 N. April 30-346 29-026 29-729 1-46 13 55-7 38-1 46-9 62 28 6 N. May 30-380 29-594 29-902 •77 5 58-7 41-1 49-9 72- 31 1 E. June 30-266 29-500 29-772 2-48 13 65-8 51-0 58-4 72-5 43 — S. July 30-210 29-014 29-742 2-51 16 65'9 52-2 59-0 73 45 — w. Aug. 30-420 29-086 29-851 1-23 10 65-0 50-5 57-7 71 41 — V. Sept. 30-512 28-768 29-871 2-20 12 59-3 47-0 53-1 65 37 — N.E. Oct. 30-082 29-114 29-581 3-03 20 53-8 43-2 48-5 61 31 2 E. Nov. 30-516 29-693 29-947 2-05 11 43-2 33-5 38-3 54 22 14 V. Dec. 30-523 29-422 29-919 •77 14 37-0 29-8 33-4 50 15 20 N. 29.778 22-33 174 45-95 101 DIRECTION OF THE WIND. N. S. E. W. N.E. N.W. S.E. S.W. 41 51 30 33 63 58 54 35 The year 1858 has been the coldest experienced at Y'ork for more than twenty years, with the exception of 1888, which was about one-tenth of a degree colder. The temperature of 1888 was 45’83, that of 1858 45'95, COUNCIL I’OR 1853. 13 The following table exhibits the months of excess and defect respectively. Excess, Befcct. January . . 3-4 Februaiy . . . . 6-5 April . . 1-8 March . . 4-6 June . . 0-3 May . . . 2-5 October . . 1-2 Dily . . . 1-1 August . . 1-3 6-7 September . . . . 1-1 November . . . . 3-3 December , . . . 5-5 25-9 6-7 12)19-2 Defect for the whole year . . 1-6 The rain of 1853 was 22’SS being T94 inches below a mean of twenty years, and 4'85 below that of 185^, and yet the days on which rain fell were 174 in 1853, against 156 of 1852. A snow-storm commenced in the evening of the 10th of February, and it was not till the 28th of March that the white robe of winter was withdrawn ; the average minimum temperature during the whole of that period was below the freezing point. Thunder and lightning were of rare occurrence throughout the year. A single flash and a long heavy peal burst over York, amidst intense darkness, on the afternoon of March 15. The Gentiana verna, a beautiful native of Teesdale, of re¬ markably regular habits, was in full blow on the 17th of May, fully two weeks later than its mean time in the latitude of York. One thunder storm is noted June 6th, one July 22nd, The first two weeks of August, so uniformly marked by electric ex¬ plosions at York, were entirely free this year. Lightning w^as seen on the evening of September 1st, and a magnificent auroral arch spanned the heavens, on the evening of the 2nd. By the kindness of correspondents and from other sources, we have obtained accounts of the fall of rain from the following places : 14 REPORT OF THE 1 Huggate. Middleton. Brandsby. York. Ack worth. Leeds. o cd a Bradford. Bedale. Settle. Todmordcn. Jan. 3-00 2-50 2-92 1-94 2-03 3-00 2-40 4-84 4-78 7-69 Feb. 2-02 1*82 4-09 2-51 1-28 0-40 1-20 1-61 1-34 1-80 Mar. 1*38 1-75 1-58 1-38 1-70 0-90 2-00 1-84 2-54 1-67 April 1-50 1-18 1-90 1-46 1-25 1-20 2-92 1-09 3-40 May 1-75 1-47 0-76 0-77 3-09 2-40 1-03 0-24 0-77 June 3-00 2-89 2-90 2-48 2-77 3-50 3-83 4-47 4-24 July 2-12 3-02 3-19 2-51 2-36 2-30 2-24 2-56 3-73 5-19 Aug. 1-25 1-82 2-01 1-23 1-36 1-80 2-53 1-16 2-57 2-95 Sept. 1-50 1-53 2-84 2-20 2-07 2-80 CO 00 3-18 4-05 4-85 Oct. 3-13 3-26 3-66 3-03 3-09 3-20 3-40 4-59 3-10 3-54 6-59 Nov. 2-37 2-04 2-57 2-05 1-78 2-20 2-00 2-45 1-35 2-74 5-82 Dec. 2-50 1*14 1-16 •77 1-02 0-50 0-80 1-28 1-29 0-60 0-89 Total 25-52 24-42 29-58 22-33 23-80 25-80 33-00 31-69 45-86 The appointment of Professor Phillips to the Deputy-Reader¬ ship of Geology, in the University of Oxford, (which requires his presence in Oxford for six months in each future year,) has obliged him to resign the office of joint secretary of the Society, which the Council do not propose to fill up, Mr. Travis having kindly undertaken to perform, for the present, the duties of Secretary alone. The Council have great pleasure in stating that they have obtained Professor Phillips’ sanction to the proposal of his name as one of your Vice-Presidents, and they feel assured, that in this capacity he will still afford the same valuable assistance on all occasions as heretofore, and that his absence from York, for a part of each year, will in nowise diminish his interest in every thing that affects the credit and welfare of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. The ordinary income of the Society has exceeded its ordinary expenditure by £102 12s. 7d. The extraordinary net receipts (from the Exhibition) were £158 6s. lOd.; and the extraordinary COUNCIL FOR 1853. 15 expenditure of the year ■will be found to have been £110 13s. 9d. The Swimming Bath receipts have not this year equalled their usual amount ; but with this exception the receipts at the gates, from new members, and from almost every other source of income, are greater than in 1852. Thus the total income exceeds the total expenditure of the year by £145 5s. 8d., which has enabled the Society to pay off a balance of £89 2s. 7d., due to their Bankers on the 1st January, 1853, and has left a sum of £56 3s. Id., to the Society’s credit on the 1st January, 1854. During the past year the Council have to lament the death of Richard John Thompson, Esq., of Kirby Hall, one of the Trustees of the Society, in whom the Society have lost a liberal friend and patron ; Mr. Thompson kindly cancelling the debt of £50 due to him from the Society. After this review, whether the Council point to the rare acquisitions of the Society, in the Geological and Antiquarian departments, or to the instruction and gratification afforded to thousands during the Exhibition in August last, they trust they may fairly derive from the past year the strongest assurance that the peculiar objects of the Institution are becoming each year more and more appreciated, and that an increasing sympathy in those objects, thus awakened, may lead to the further prosperity of the Society, and extend its sphere of usefulness. 16 THE TEEASUEER OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL IN ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1853. RECEIPTS. 1853. £. Annual Subscriptions and Arrears 524 Admission of 12 New Members .... 60 Composition in lieu of Subscription 25 Associates . 7 Ladies’ Subscriptions . 53 Money received at tbe Gate . Swimming Bath (deducting expen- 200 Sale of Guide to Antiquities . 21 Temporai’y Subscribers . 3 Donation from W. E . 5 „ Thomas AUis, Esq., for purchase of Gould’s Humming Bu’ds . 6 Use of Tent . 7 Exhibition — Nett Proceeds . 153 Total Income . ; . T1264 12 10 Permanent Debt ; Yorkshire Insurance Company . £2000 0 0 Five Members at £50 each . Balance in hands of the Treasurer .... Total Debt of the So¬ ciety, Jan., 1854 . . Surplus of Income, 1853 . Debt due R. J. Thomp¬ son, Esq., cancelled by him . 250 0 0 2250 0 0 56 3 1 2193 16 11 145 5 8 50 0 0 - 195 5 8 £2389 2 7 6th Feb., 1854, Audited by us, ROBT. DAVIES, HENRY ROBINSON. SOCIETI' EXPENDITURE. s. d. 1853. £. s. d. 1 0 Crown Rent . 1 0 0 0 0 Rent to Corporation .... 53 8 0 0 0 Rates and Taxes . 5 14 2 0 0 Insurance and Water Rent 11 7 0 0 0 18 8 Salaries and Wages : 5 6 Keeper of the Museum 150 0 0 Sub-Curator . 100 0 0 12 4 Seiwant . 20 0 0 15 0 Lodge Keeper . 20 0 0 7 Labourers . 160 15 0 0 0 Clerk and Collector 25 0 0 0 0 Attendant, Hospitium 6 0 0 Interest on Debt : Insurance Company . . 6 0 Museum, Gardens, &c. : 0 0 General Repairs . 135 7 2 6 10 Purchase and prepara- tion of Specimens . . 48 0 2 Library, Books and Binding . Incidental Expenses : Printing, Advertising, and Stationei’y . 31 4 6 Coals and Gas . 52 4 3 Postage, Carriage, and Sundries . 61 6 2 Extraordinary Expenses : Weatherley, for remov- ing Pavement . 70 3 5 71 9 2 481 15 0 77 13 4 183 7 4 49 13 8 144 14 11 Balance against the So¬ ciety on Sale of Steam Engine . 40 10 Total Income . 1264 12 no J3 9 1119 7 2 145 5 8 1264 12 10 Permanent Debt : Yorkshire Insurance Company . 2000 0 0 Due to Six Members £50 each . 300 0 0 Overdiwvn Messrs. Swann and Co . 89 2 7 Total Debt of Society, 1st Jan., 1853 . 2389 2 7 VHLLIAM GRAY, Tkeasurek. 17 MEMBERS ELECTED SINCE FEB., 1853. 1 8 53. Col. Tower, York. Andrew Montagu, Melton Park. Thomas Graham, York. Michael Yarvill, York. James Scawin Tonge, York. J. G. Smyth, M. P., Heath Hall. Major John Norman, York. Richard Holden, York. Thomas Phillips, York. 1 854. Michael Charlton, York. IS RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEB. 7th, 1854. 1 . That the Report of the Council be adopted and printed for the use of the Members. 2. That the thanks of the Meeting be gratefully offered to Donors of Specimens, and all who assisted The Yorkshire Philosophical Society in the Exhibition in August, 1853. 3. That the thanks of the Society be given to the Vice-Presidents, and Members of Council retiring from Office, and to the Secretaries and Curators, for their valuable services. 4. That the Council be empowered to authorize the holding one or more Horticultural Aleetings, in the Society’s grounds during the pre¬ sent year. 5. That the Council be empowered, on certain days to be selected by them during the present year, to permit free admission to all persons to the Museum and Gardens, the mode of admission to be regulated by the Council. 6. That the Council be empowered to admit Strangers during the present year at the usual rates of payments. 7. That the Council be authorized to admit to the Museum and Gardens, as temporary subscribers, any occasional Visitors to York not residing in the County, at the rate of one pound for four Months for themselves and families, but in no case shall such privilege be granted for a longer period than twelve Months. 19 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE MONTHLY MEETINGS 1 853. January. — William Procter, Esq. — On some Antiquities lately added to the Museum. October. — Thomas Allis, Esq. — On Reparation of Injury to the Bony Structure of Yertebrated Animals. November. ~Saml. Anderson, Esq. — Letter and Drawing of a remarkable Flint Instrument. 20 DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. GEOLOGY. Bell, — , Esc{ . Bunting, Edwd., Esq., (Mansfield^ Notts.) . Cholmley, Col., ( Howsham ) Clarke, Joseph, Esq., ( Cin¬ cinnati ) . . . . Fox, Rev. T. H. Lane . Johnstone, Rev. Canon Club, Yorkshire Naturalists’ Society,BritishNatural-His- tory . 1 ) Specimen of Fossil Wood. Yery remarkable nondescript Fossil Body, from the Lias of Whitby. A Plesiosaurus from the Lias of Whitby. (See page 7.) Various Silurian North American Fossils. Lias Nodule from Whitby, having a curious resemblance to the human foot. Specimens of a very interesting unde¬ termined Bivalve, from the Oolite of Hambleton Hill. Star-fish, from the Calcareous Grit of Newton Dale, and Two Specimens of a remarkable undescribed Bivalve from the Yorkshire Chalk. Fossils from the Crag and other Tertiary Formations. ZOOLOGY. Barstow, Lieut., R. N . A young Turtle from Ascension, and a Horned Chameleon from Fernando Po. Bell, Fred., Esq . Specimen oftheGreat Auk. (Seepage 9.) Carpenter, Rev. P., f War- 'l Shell of Spirula, displaying the internal rington )' . j Septa. Clarke, Joseph, Esq., ( Cin- A series of American Land and Fresh- cinnati ) . . . j water Shells, including Unio spiuosus, and other rare species. Specimens of the seventeen year Locust (Cicada septemdecem). Head of a very singular Fish from the Ohio, (Platyrostra edentula). Munby, Giles, Esq . A Sand Grouse and Heron from Africa. Society, BritishNatural-His- ) Natica helicoides, from Staithes, and > tory. j several other rare species of British Shells. ANTIQUITIES. Bell, — , Esq., (Norton) ... A Fragment of an inscribed Mediaeval Stone. Buckle, Jno., Esq., (Riggs) Celt found at Pocklington. Coin of Trajan, found on the Manor Shore, 1829. Clarke, Joseph, Esq., f Cm- 1 Series of Antique Flint American cinnati ) . ; Arrow Heads. Goldie, Geoige, Esq., (Shef- | Impressions of foreign Seals. fold . ) Kendrick, Jas., Esq., M.D. Sulphur Casts of Two Ancient Chess Men, found in excavating the Moat Hill, Warrington, and Impression of Seal. Price, Thomas, Esq . Small Roman Coin, found in a Stone Coffin at Clementhorpe. Whytehead, Rev. Robt. ... Roman Urns, found on Spalding Moor. GARDEN. Hague, Barnard, Esq . Packet of Chinese Hemp Seed, with a specimen of the fibre. Oldfield, Joshua, Esq . Four Loads of Manure. Templeman, S,, Esq., . Ninety Sorts of Seeds, from the Botanic Garden. Wood, John. Esq . A Package of Seeds. BOTANY. Clarke, Joseph, Esq . . A Collection of Plants made in the vicinity of Cincinnati. 22 MISCELLANEOUS. Fox, the Rev. T. H. Lane... A Walking Stick, made of the Tusk of the Narwhal. Russell, Lady Frankland, Casts in Plaster from Autographs and C Thirklehy Park ) . j Devices, cut by former distinguished Prisoners on the Walls of Rooms and Cells in the Tower of London. Whytehead, Rev. Robt . A Caffrarian Musical Instrument. LIBRARY. Admiralty, Board of . Contributions to Astronomy and Geo¬ desy, second series, forming part of vol. 21, of the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. By Thomas Maclean, Esq., F. R. A. S. Astronomical Observations made at the Royal Observatory, in 1851, under the direction of Geo. Biddell Airey, Esq., M. Ae Association, British, for the Report for 1852, Diagrams for the Advancement of Science ) Geography of Plants. Committee, Guildhall Li- ) . _ . ^ , , , 7- 7 V [ London Tradesmen’s Tokens, brary, ( London ) . ; Government, British, by Observations made at the Magnetical direction of . j and Meteorological Observatory, at Toronto in Canada, vol. 2, 1843, 4, 5. Societe, D’Emulation d’Abbeville . Society, of Antiquaries, of London . Society, Chemical, of London Society, Cornwall, Royal Polytechnic . . Society, Historic, of Cheshire Memoires, 1849, 50, 51. Proceedings of. Nos. 18 to 35, vol. 2, and List of Members. Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity, vol. 33, part 1 and 2; vol. 34, part 1 and 2; and vol. 35, part 1. Journal for 1853. Report, 1852. Proceedings and Papers, 1852 and 1853. Society, Numismatic, of London . Charleswortb, Edward, Esq. Chambers, Messrs., (Edin¬ burgh) . . . Clarke, Joseph, Esq . Haldeman, S. S., Esq., A.M. (The Author ) Kendrick, Jas., Esq., M.D. j List of Members, 1852. Lea’s Synopsis of the Family of Naides. I Memoir of the Eight Hon. Sir J. Sinclair, ) Bart., with an account of his writings and personal exertions. Catalogue of Flowering Plants and Ferns, in the vicinity of Cincinnati. I Elements of Latin Pronunciation, for j the use of Students. Crypto-Cephalinarum Borealis Americas Diagnoses. Descriptions of North American Co- leoptera, chiefly in the Cabinet of I. S. Le Conte, M. D., with refer¬ ences to described Specimens, and history and transformations of Cory- dalus Cornutus. Description of Two Ancient Chessmen, discovered in the Moat Hill, Warring¬ ton, with Lithographs, &c. Lawton, Geo., Esq. ( The Author ) Leidy, Joseph, Esq., M.D. Londesborough, Lord . The Religious Houses of Yorkshire. Internal Anatomy of Corydalus Cor¬ nutus, in its three stages of existence. Catalogue of a collection of Ancient and Mediaeval Rings, and Personal Ornaments, formed for Lady Londes¬ borough. Lund, — . . . Leak on English Money. Museum Meadianum and a Catalogue of Coins, Antiquities, and Relics. Thompson, R. I., Esq . Principles of Human Physiology, by W. B. Carpenter, F. R. S. Warren, Sami., Q.C., F.R.S. \ The Intellectual and Moral Development (The Author ) ) of the present Age. Wood, John, Esq . . Journal of the Horticultural Society of London, 1853. Wy] ie, W. M., Esq., B. A. | Fairford Graves, a Record of Researches (The Author) ) in an Anglo-Saxon Burial Place in Gloucestershire. SERIAL WORKS SUBSCRIBED FOR. A Monograph of the Trochilidae or Humming Birds, by John Gould, F. R. S., (6 parts published). Churton's Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire, fob, (6 parts published). Bell’s British Crustacea, (completed). Birds of Asia, folio, by John Gould, Esq., (6 parts published). Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis, or Geology of the Sewalik Hills in the North of India, by Dr. Falconer and Major Cautley. (Part 1 to 9 of Illustrations, large folio, and part 1 of Letterpress, 8vo.) Forbes and Hanley’s British Mollusca, 8vo. col. plates, (completed). Illustrated Proceedings of the Zoological Society, for 1850. Publications of the Ray Society, (1852) ; A Monograph on the sub¬ class Cirripedia, with figures of all the Species, by Charles Darwin, F. R. S., &c. Bibliographia Zoologiae et Geologise, by Agassiz and Strickland, vol. 3. Publications of the Palseontographical Society, for 1 853. Fossil Corals of Great Britain, part 4. Fossil Brachiopoda, part 4. Fossil Shells of the Chalk, part 1 . Mollusca of the Great Oolite, part 2. Mollusca of the Crag, part 3. Fossil Reptilia, part 4. Reliquiae Antiquse Eboracenses, by Wm. Bowman, (3 parts published). Scientific Memoirs, edited by Richard Taylor, F. S. A., (20 parts published). Sowerby’s Thesaurus Conchyliorum, Svo. col. plates, (13 parts pub- blished). PERIODICALS. Loudon and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, monthly. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, monthly. The Phytologist, monthly. London Geological Journal, (3 parts published). 25 APPENDIX CONTAINING A LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EXHIBITION OF PLANTS, &c., IN THE MUSEUM GAEDENS, YOEK, AUGUST 1853. Northumberland, His Grace ) . ^ i , 1 A Collection of Tropical Fruits. Fitzvvilliam, Earl . . A Collection of above 100 Ferns. The Royal Botanic Gardens, ) Cut specimens of interesting Plants (' Kew ) . ) used in the Arts and for Food. Balfour, Dr., the Royal Bo¬ tanic Garden, ( Edin- hurgJi ) . The Hon. East India Com- A large Collection of Gums, Resins, pany, (per Prof. Royle) ; Silks and Fabrics, Yegetable Oils, &c., being a donation to the York School of Medicine and the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. The Apothecaries’ Company A Collection of Aledicinal Plants. The Roval Botanic Garden, (Regent’s Park^) through R. Marnock, Esq . Bindley, Dr . Original specimens of the Touzelle Wheat, Parasitical Loranthi, &c. &c. Embleton, T., Esq., (Middle- \ A Collection of interesting Plants, ton Hall^ near Leeds J ... ) amongst them the Exogonium purga, (The Jalap), Copaifera Balsaminea, &c. &c, A large Collection of curious Plants, and above 200 Grasses. Specimens of the Cocoa-nut Palm, Wax Palm, &c. &:c. 26 Allis, Tbos., Esq. Pease, J., Esq. (Darlington) Moore, 0. A., Esq . Waterbouse, John, Esq., ( Halifax ) . Russell, Lady Frankland ... Pulleine, tbe Rev. R . Creyke, tbe Yen. Arcbd. ... Simpson, Dr. E . Bould, T., Esq . . . Marshall and Co., Messrs., ( Leeds ) . Barber, J.,Esq. (Tang Hall) Yitcb, Messrs., ( Exeter) ... Preston, H., Esq. ( Morehg J Briggs, Mr. J., f Pavement^ York) . . . Tuke, S., Esq . Fisber and Holmes, Messrs. ('Wandsworth Nursery, Sheffield ) . Backhouse and Son, Messrs. Bainbridge and Hewitson, Messrs . Rollingson and Tooting, Messrs . Stark, Mr,, (Nurseryman, Edinburgh ) . A Collection of 100 Ferns, amongst them Dicksonia antarctica, Dipla- zium Seramporense, Marattia Kaul- fusia, Cibotium Sbiedii, &c. A fine Collection of Stove and Green¬ house Plants. Collection of curious Seeds and Seed- vessels. Fabrics from Pine Apple leaf fibre, from Manilla. Specimens of Peat Charcoal prepared for sanitary and agricultural pur¬ poses. Various Fabrics from the Vegetable Kingdom, and 75 Varieties of Wheat. Box of Fruit from China. Portfolio of Ferns gathered in Madeira. Several Varieties of Cotton in different stages of manufacture. Specimens of New Zealand Flax, with common Flax and Hemp in various stages of manufacture. Large specimens of Orange Trees, &c. Specimens of rare Cones, from various Countries. Flowering Stem of the large American Aloe. Specimens of Tobacco, Snuffs, Cocoas, Teas, Starch, &c. Collection of specimens of Teas, Cocoas, &c. 100 species of Coniferous Trees, &:c. Collection of various Plants, Collection of Fuchsias. Cephalotus follicularis, &c. Collection of Alpine Plants. 27 Marley, Mr., ( Darlington ) Three species of Drosera and other British Plants. Richardson & Dennis, Mes- \ Specimens of Roots, Barks, Extracts, srs., f King Street^ York ) ) &c. Holden, Mr., ( Pavement^ ] 200 specimens of Drugs, &c., from the York) . ) Vegetable Kingdom. \ 5 1886 H. SOTHERAN, BOOKSELLER, CONEYSTREET, YORK. ft i'- t *S 4 A' ‘ ^ • 4 4\ if*) ^ :AV 1' '*' ■ ‘-. 'K •'^Jk ' ' ' ■' '} i- I ' .;*>'l/ f * - I 'l*'' t ' h‘ ■ I k \- •V^A j'. ■-■■ ■J 1^ :• \ \ r* - .'a' , ■•. 't.'V't V , • ■'* i .r " ‘t •S V ■ \i •-^o ^: I ■u I ', -N %-/ "S k - s ^5‘ ) t ^'rf* \ It ' •’* ll" ' *-* 5 •- 1 -4... - •^•' t : . -U'- *• ,i :.' ' > • ■ . ■ •• / ' < . <(t.' sV,*/ ^V,t:’;'‘''',‘v‘',V\v' • t-yO'. i- ■■! ' , i .: ' '-V ■■y-Jj,!''-.' . *.. . -” ,' ,^' , "'.■ ■ • ' ■■' - ;r-' & '• ■ jdA ' ' •' 'r.v^' . ' ir*'^ .'••■^ ■ . ' -. hi' fV. .. - . 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