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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE COUNCIL

OF THE

YORKSHIRE

PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

MDCCCLXXVIII.

PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETINO,

FEBRUARY 4th, 1879.

Y 0 E K :

J. SOTHERAN, BOOKSELLER, CONEYT STREET.

1 8 7 9.

PATRONESSES

OF THE

¥orfc^1jire Pjtlo^opljiral ^ocieti).

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

H. E. H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

PATRONS.

11. R. H. THE PRINCE OF WALES.

H. R. H. THE DUKE OF CONNAUOHT.

HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.

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OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1879.

PRESIDENT :

Ills Grace the Archbishop of York, F. R. S.

VICE-PRESIDENTS :

The Right Hon. Lord Londesborough.

The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of York, D. D.
William Henry Rudston Read, M. A., F. L. S.
Egerton Vernon Harcourt, M. A., F. G. S.

The Ven. Archdeacon Hey, M. A.

The Rev. Canon Raine, M. A.

William Reed, F. G. S.

John Francis Walker, M. A., F. L. S., F.G. S., F. C. S.,

(London and Berlin) F.Z.S., Member of the Committee
THE British Association.

William Walker, F. G. S.

J. H. Gibson, M. D.

TREASURER :

William Gray, E\R. A. S., F. G. S.
COUNCIL :

Elected 1877. .John P. Wood.

Richard Pearson.

Edward W. Smithson.

Elected 1878. .James Melrose.

The Rev. Robert Daniel.

Alfred Henry Spence.

William Lewin Newman.

William Barnby (for 2 years.)

Elected 1879. .W. 0. Anderson.

W. Atkinson.

Rev. G. H. Hewison.

Rev. T. B. B. Ferris.

HON. SECRETARY:

T. S. Noble, F. R. A. S., F. G. S.

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omOERS OE THE SOCIETY.

CUEATOES :

Geology .

Mineralogy .

Comparative Anatomy . .

British Ornithology . .

Insects and Crustacea . .

Ethnographical Collection

Antiquarian Department

Library .

Botany .

CONCHOLOGY .

Obse rvatory & Met eo rolog y
imder the care of a Committee
cornkting of .

W. Eeed, F. G. S.

W. H. Hudleston, M. a.,

F. G. S.

T. Anderson, M. D.

W. H. Eudston Eead, M.A.
F. L. S.

Yen. Archdeacon Hey, M.A.

( Eev. W. Green well, M. A.

( Eev. J. Eaine, M. A.

Eev. G. Eowe, M. A.
William Matterson, M. D.

W. Gray, F. E. A. S., F. G. S.
Yen. Archdeacon Hey, M. A-
T. S. Noble, F.E.A.S., F.G.S.

KEEEEE OF THE MUSEUM:
J. C. Purves, M. D.

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL

OF THE

YOEKSHTRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,

February 4th, 187j

The Council in presenting their report of the Society’s affairs
for the year 1878, have much pleasure in congratulating the
Members on its continued usefulness and prosjDerity.

The actual income for the past year has been one of the
largest ever recorded in the annals of the Society, and although
the expenditure has been exceptional in respect of the various
sums spent in improvements and in extending the space in the
Museum for the recently acquired Geological collection, as well
as in the purchase of Antiquities, yet when the facts are more
particularly stated, as will appear fn this Report, the members
will at once perceive that the debit side of the Treasm’er’s
balance sheet discloses an expenditure absolutely necessary for
the welfare of the Society.

The total income for the past year amounts to £1450 6s. 3d.

The two principal sources of income are the subscriptions and
the money received at the Gate. The former has amounted to
£991 Is. Od., being a higher sum than has ever been received
from this source in any previous year ; whilst the admission
money received from strangers at the Gate has amounted to
£312 7s. 9d., the largest amount with one exception in the
experience of the Society.

On the debit side of the Treasurer’s account it will be found
that £104 12s. 7d. has been expended in the pmuhase of
Roman and Saxon Antiquities, chiefly discovered in the various
excavations which are being made in York and its neighbour¬
hood.

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REPORT OF THE

The arrangements in respect of the Greological collection
presented by William Eeed, Esq., have cost the Society <£264
19s. 5d. The presentation of tliis extensive and valuable
series rendered it a work of absolute necessity to alter and
re-arrange the whole of the Society’s collections in the large
Greological room and the Foreign Bird room.

A further sum of £263 11s. lOd. has been expended in the
enclosure and laying out of the additional ground adjacent to
Marygate, and now forming part of the groimds of the Society.

This work has been carried out with great care and skill
under the direct superintendence of your honoured Vice-
President, William Henry Eudston Eead, Esq., to whom the
Society is so largely indebted for many valuable donations and
for the kind interest he continues to take in the success of the
Society which he has done so much to promote.

The other items of expenditure are of so ordinary a character
as to require no special notice, but will be found detailed in the
Treasurer’s balance sheet.

The Council will now follow the usual custom, and notice in
detail the various scientific departments of the Institution.

Department of Antiquities. — The past year has witnessed
considerable improvement in the Antiquarian departments, and
large additions have been made to the Collections which the
Society already possessed.

The chief event in the year has been the completion and
opening of the Ethnological and Pre-historic room in the upper
part of the Museum Buildings. The work of re-arrangement has
been going on for some time, and has necessitated very great
labour and considerable expense. The members will now be able
to see for the first time many interesting objects which have been
hitherto concealed in drawers for want of space. The Saxon,
Danish and Pre-historic antiquities in this room are under the
charge of Mr. Grreenwell, who has kindly added very consider¬
ably to their number. An ancient Saxon biuial ground has
also been discovered in the vicinity of York, in which the ashes
of the dead, who had been burnt on the fimeral pile, were
deposited in urns. Many of these urns, which were in a state

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of great decay, have been acquired and have been carefully
repaired, and mil he exhibited in the new room in the course
of the present year. It will he necessary also to remove to
the same place, before long, some of the objects that are at
present in the Hospitium, which has become inconveniently
crowded, and for these, fresh cases will be required.

The progress of the Roman and more recent collections in
the Hospitium during the past year has been most marked, and
this is owing to the piuchase by the Society, of two private
collections, which had been formed in York during the recent
excavations on the Railway. Many beautiful ornaments,
especially of jet, have been acquired, which make our Collection
of wrought jet by far the finest that is known. The same
opinion may be passed on our collection of Roman Antiquities,
as a whole. Ho single City or Gamp in Britain has yielded so
large a number of curious and valuable objects, and it is earnestly
to be hoped that in coming years no trouble or expense, within
reasonable bounds, will be spared to make our Roman Museum
a still more adequate representation of ancient Eburacum and
its inhabitants. There are still one or two other collections in
this City, which the Society, when it has the opportunity, should
do its best to acquire. A few fragments of a fine inscription
were discovered in the summer of last year, in the front of the
new Station Hotel, but they are too mutilated to be fitted
together or interpreted. The excavations on the site of the
Exhibition buildings have yielded much less than was expected.
The object of greatest interest that has been found there, is a
fine aiu*eus of Yespasian in excellent condition.

There is, however, no portion of the Antiquarian Departments
that has not received during the past year many valuable
additions.

Greological Department. — In the Geological Department, as
already intimated, the Council have formally to announce the
presentation to the Society of the valuable Geological collection
of their respected Yice-President, William Reed, Esq., F. G. S.

The collection presented by Mr. Reed, has been formed at a
great cost over a period of many years, and has been well

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REPORT OE THE

known to G-eologists as one of tke most valuable private
collections in the United Kingdom.

The Council congratulate the Society on its acquisition of a
collection, which, when displayed in the Society’s rooms, will
raise our Museum to the first rank among similar scientific
Institutions in this country. The arrangement of the collec¬
tion will be a work of some time, and is now being actively
and systematically carried out, under the personal superin¬
tendence of Mr. lleed, by Dr. Purves, the recently appointed
Keeper of the Musemn.

The Collection presented by Mr. Peed consists of : —

1. A complete series of shells of the Land, Fresh- water and
Marine Mollusca of Grreat Britain, comprising many fine
specimens of the rarer species and several of those forms first
ascertained to be still living members of the British Fauna
during the dredging expedition of the Lightning ” and

Porcupine.”

2. An extensive collection of Mammalian remains from
English Post-Tertiary deposits, remarkable among which, for
their fine state of preservation, are the teeth and bones of
Phinoceros, Horse, Hippopotamus, Urns, Megaceros, Elephant,
Bear, Lion, Hyaena, Beaver, &c.

3. A large series of shells of the same period from Fluviatile
and Marine deposits in various parts of England, Scotland and
Ireland.

4. A magnificent collection of Fossils from the Norwich,
Ped and Coralline Crags. The suite of Yertebrate remains,
especially, is of great value. This is probably the finest
private collection of Crag fossils in England, and it is doubtful
whether it can be equalled in any of oiu’ great public Museums.

5. A series of Plant remains from the Miocene beds of
Bovey Tracy and Antrim, which, with similar lacustrine
deposits in Mull, are the only formations of Mid-Tertiary age
in the British Isles. The animal life of the period is illustrated
by collections of Shells from Touraine, the neighbourhood of
Bordeaux, and the Basin of Vienna.

6. A large collection of Eocene fossils in a beautiful state
of preservation, and in which the several subdivisions of the
deposits of that period in England are fully represented.

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7. Au extensive assemblage of fossils from the Chalk,
Greensand, Gault, Neocomian and "Wealden. Many of the
silieitied forms are shown in heantifnlly polished sections.

8. A very large and valuable series of Jurassic forms.

9. All the British Paloeozoic formations are well represented,
especially the Carboniferous Limestone of Yorkshire, in the
neighbourhood of Settle, of the fossils in which there is a fine
collection (upwards of 200 species).

An invaluable feature, from a scientific point of view, in
Mr. Heed’s collection, is the great care which has been taken to
indicate the exact locality from which the several specimens
have been obtained, so that thorough reliance may be placed in
them as geological data.

In a review of this Department, it is of interest to refer to a
statement published by the Society, on its foundation upwards
of 50 years ago.

“ The more particular object of the Society is, to elucidate the
Geology of Yorkshire. There are few counties in England
which are traversed by so great a variety of Strata as this, few
of which the Strata contain so many Fossils interesting to the
Geologist, or so many minerals important to the Aids, and few
of which the Geological relations are so imperfectly and doubt¬
fully determined. Towards tlie illustration of this subject, the
Society hope that much may be done by the combined observa¬
tion of many individuals in the respective neighboimhoods, and
by a contribution of Specimens from every part of Yorkshire
to a Central Museum.”

How faithfully the object referred to has been kept in view,
and promoted by those who have had the direction of the
Society’s affairs in years past, the labours of Professor Phillips,
the Heverend W. Y. Harcouid, and others, abundantly prove,
and in the possession of this magnificent collection the Society
can now offer to Students of Geology most valuable help in the
study of this interesting and valuable department of Science.

British Ornithology. — The Cm’ator of British Ornithology
has to report the purchase of the Great White Pleron, Ardca
Alba, at the sale of James Hall, Esqume, for the Museum.

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REPORT OE THE

This specimen was killed at Scorhorongli, near Beverley, 1834,
and is mentioned in Yarrell and Gould : also the addition of a
specimen of the Great Snipe, Scolopax Major, shot at Hayton,
September 24, 1878, and a variety of the common Starling,
presented hy Alderman Melrose, shot at Clifton Croft.

He has also to record a curious pied variety of the Peewit,
shot at Whitley Bridge on the Pontefract and Goole Pailway,
hy Major Eadon; its appearance was so varied and singular
that he wrote to the Major about it, who kindly replied hy
stating that if he ever parted with it, the Museum should
possess it. Sea Mews, Goosanders, and Wild Swans have visited
this neighbourhood during the severe storm this Winter.

Botany. — The Curator of Botany reports that the British
and Foreign Herbaria are in a good state of preservation.

There have been no additions to this department during the
past year.

Department of Comparative Anatomy. — The Curator of
Comparative Anatomy reports that the Irish Elk was re-articu¬
lated and set up in the new Ethnological room, in close
proximity to the Flint Implements and other works of pre¬
historic man with whom it is supposed to have been con¬
temporary. It was placed on a platform well adapted for its
display and as high as the room would admit, hut it was found
not to be sufficiently elevated to he free from handling hy
visitors and consequent risk of injury designed or unintentional.
It has been remounted in the centre of the foreign bird room,
the platform being raised on the top of a new stand which is
arranged to hold hones, and other specimens recjiiired for
reference hut not of sufficient general interest to displace other
objects iiov/ exhibited in the wall cases.

The work of re-arrangement, which is urgently required, has
not been carried out in consequence of want of funds. It is
hoped that these may be shortly forthcoming so that other
valuable specimens not exhibited at present m^ij be incor¬
porated Avith the collection before the Meeting of the British
Association.

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Mr. Wakefield reports that the chief meteorological features
of the past year were the prevalence of uniform barometrical
pressure, the mildness of the first four months, the entire
absence of frost in May, the genial weather of July, the wetness
of August, the heavy snow storms of November, and the severe
cold of the same month which also prevailed during the whole
of December.

The mean height of the mercurial column, corrected to 32°
F. and mean sea level, was 29*8941 inches ; the highest reading
was 30*679 inches on March 16th, and the lowest 29*032 inches
on April 1st, giving a range of pressure of 1*647 against that
of 1877 of 2*022 inch.

The mean temperature for the year was 48*10 or 0*5 of a
degree above a mean of fifty years. The first five months each
showed an excess over the average. June alone out of the first
ten fell below its normal warmth. January, February, July
and October, were 3*21, 3*55, 3*44 and 2*36 degrees above the
respective means. Seven times the thermometer exceeded 80
degrees, viz., on June 26th, 27th, and July 17th, 18th, 19th,
20th, 21st; and the hottest whole days were June 26th and
July 19th, with a mean temperature of 74*5 and 72*5 degrees
respectively. The coldest mean day temperature was on
December 14th, with 19*5 degrees. The difference between the
highest point reached in the year and the lowest, amounted to
77 degrees, while in 1877 the range was 5*7 degrees between
the extremes ; and the difference between the warmest whole
day and the coldest was 55 degrees. There were 85 frosty
nights in the year, viz., in January 10, February 10, March 14,
April 6, October 1, November 14, and December 30. The
mean temperatiu’e of December was 30*01 degrees or 8*69
degrees below the average of 50 years. Every day except the
last four was below the mean. The mean daily temperatime of
the fifteen coldest clays consecutively was 25*1 degrees, while
that of the same number of days, though not consecutive, in
1874 was 26*4 degrees. The lowest reading of the thermometer
was 11 degrees on the 24th as against 5 degrees on the 29th of
the same month in 1874, and 4 degrees on 24th December,
1860. The following table exhibits the months of excess and
defect of temperatui’e.

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REPORT

OE THE

Excess.

Defect.

January .

. . 3-21

June .

February .

. . 3-55

November . . .

. . 3*93

March . .

. . 1-66

December . . .

. . 8*69

April . .

. . 1-21

May . .

. . -36

12*97

July . .

. . 3-44

August

. . 1-77

September

. . 1-41

October .

. . 2-36

18*97

12*97

12)6*00

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Excess for the whole

year *50

The rainfall for the year, including melted snow, amounted
to 28'72 inches or 4'735 inches above the average of fifty years,
in great part arising from the exceptionally wet August in
which no less than 5*07 inches of rain were registered.

The greatest rainfall, in twenty four hours, for the year was
on August I'ith, when 1'26 inches of rain were measimed.

Excess.

Defect.

January .

*320

February ....

•580

Nay .

1*951

March .

*603

June .

*758

April .

*264

August .

2*357

July .

•759

September .

•348

October .

•474

November .

1*977

December ....

•296

7*711

2*976

2*976

Excess for the whole year

4*735

The Eiver Ouse rose above its summer level on J anuary 23rd
10 ft. 8 in. ; June 12th, 9 ft. ; November 17th, 12 ft. 3 in. ;
and December 31st, 12 ft. 10 inches.

Comparative prevalence of winds ; from N. to E. on 97 days,
E. to S. on 11 days, S. to W. on 114 days, W. to N. on 113
days.

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METEOEOLOaiCAL EEGISTER, TOEK, 1878.

BAROMETER.

RAIN.

THERMOMETER.

Month.

-1^

02

02

fco

w

Lowest.

Mean.

Inches.

Days.

Average

Maximum.

Average

Minimum.

Mean Temp.

Highest.

Lowest.

Jan.

30-605

29-374

30-0853

2-02

21

44-94

34-06

39-50

56

24

Feb.

30-580

29-788

30-2330

-89

11

47-46

35-21

41-34

59

24

Mar.

30-679

29-373

30-0365

-99

13

49-39

34-52

41-95

59

19

April

30-247

29-032

29-8595

1-24

10

55-57

38-23

46-90

65

28

May

30-166

29-260

29-7503

3-64

20

59-87

45-23

52-55

69

33

June

30-198

29-375

29-9379

3-10

13

66-13

49 37

57-75

88

40

July

30-393

29-657

30-0246

1-67

10

70'52

53-55

62-03

85

41

Aug.

30-384

29-211

29-7407

5-07

22

69-35

52-77

61-06

75

45

Sept.

30-267

29-417

29-9055

2-56

15

63-47

48-53

56-00

72

37

Oct.

30-318

29-055

29-7152

1-95

17

57-03

43-87

50-45

67

29

Nov.

30-465

29-185

29-7566

4-05

23

42-77

32-57

37-67

50

26

Dec.

30-320

29-047

29-6845

1-54

17

35-77

24-26

30-01

50

11

30-679

29-032

29-8941

28-72

192

48-10

88

11

EAINFALL, 1878.

Mouth.

Total

Depth.

G reate
in 24 I

St Fall
louts.

Days on

1 which -01 or

more fell.

Mai ton.

Langton.

!

Jan.

Inches

2-02

Depth.

•50

Date.

27

21

Inches.

2-22

Inches.

2-09

Feb.

•89

•44

14

11

0-95

1-52

Mar.

•99

•23

9

13

0-84

1-06

April

1-24

•50

20

10

1-80

1-78

May

3-64

•50

23

20

4-19

3-44

June

3-10

•70

9

13

3-24

2-89

July

1-67

•58

28

10

0-72

0-55

Aug,

5-07

1-26

13

22

7-00

5-79

Sept

2-56

•44

25

15

1-53

1-60

Oct.

1-95

•43

21

17

2-02

1-99

Nov.

405

•59

15

23

4-20

4 60

Dec.

1-54

•38

25

17

1-90

2-21

28-72

192

30-61

29-52

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REPORT OF THE

COMPAEATIYE PEEYALENCE OF WINDS.

K.X.E.

N.E.

E.X.E.

E.

E.S.E.

S.E.

S.S.E.

70

4

15

8

19

8

6

8

s.

s.s.w.

s.w.

w.s.w.

w.

w.x.w.

N.W.

x.x.w.

61

9

30

14

60

13

24

16

The following observations made at Langton, Malton, have
been kindly supplied by the Eev. A. Sbadw^ell, M. A.

Mean of Barometer corrected, 30'04 inch. Eainfall 2*310
inches over average of 25 years. Very dry July, exceedingly
wet August, only surpassed by 1857 with 6*435 inches. Highest
flood on record on November 18, 14 ft. 7 in. above summer
level.

Mean temperatrme 0^*36 below average.

January, 3°*20, February, 3°*54, July, 2°*42, in excess.

June, 2°*90, November, 4°*40, December, 12°, in deflciency.

Highest in shade, July 18, 82°*5.

Lowest in shade, December 25, 3°.

It will be in the remembrance of many of the Members of
the Society that in the year 1867, Mr. Dallas resigned the
Office of Keeper of the Museum, on his appointment as
Secretary to the Oeological Society. Since that date the oflB.ce
has remained vacant.

For the reasons stated in the report of 1870, the Council did
not think it advisable to All up the appointment. In that year
Mr. Baines, who for upwards of 40 years had discharged the
duties of Sub-Cm*ator of the Museum and Orounds, from old
age and increasing infirmity, placed his resignation in the
hands of the Council. The Council allowed him to retme on a
pension of £100 a year with the use of the Sub-Curator’s
residence house for life. The Coimcil also at the same time
granted to James Davison, one of the gardeners, who had been
in the Society’s employ for a similar period, a pension of £25 a
year, and vnth these heavy charges on the Society’s income,
the Council did not feel justifled in electing to the vacant office
of Keeper of the Museum. The Council, however, retained the

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17

services of Mr. Charles Wakefield as an assistant in the Scientific
and other work of the Museum during the vacancy, an office
which he had previously filled on the resignation of a previous
Keeper of the Museum until the appointment of Mr. Dallas.
On the 15th of May Mr. Baines died, at the ripe old age
of 84, having heen for several years past in feeble health.
It would be unjust to the memory of this valued Officer of
the Society to close this Deport without a brief record of
his services, extending over a period of many years. Mr.
Baines first entered the service of the Society as Sub-Curator
in the autumn of 1829. The report for the year 1830 contains
this paragraph on the appointment of Mr. Baines. “ The
Council consider themselves fortunate in the person whom they
have engaged to take charge of the grounds under the Curator,
a person qualified by his skill and industry not only to cultivate
the garden with scientific diligence, but to render essential
service to the Museum. His activity has already obtained for
the Society 500 plants.” How the hopes raised on his appoint¬
ment were fulfilled by the labours of a long life is best
evidenced by the state of the Museum and grounds during the
period of his curatorship.

Mr. Baines had not only a fair knowledge of Natural History,
Antiquities and Greology, but he was a Botanist of high repute,
and his work on Flora of Yorkshire ” will long remain an
evidence of his attainments in this department of Science.

The Council, after the decease of Mr. Baines, thought the
time had arrived when an appointment ought to be made to the
Office" of Keeper of the Museum, and they have selected for
this office, out of many candidates, J. C. Purves, Esq., M. D.,
of Edinburgh, lately engaged on the Greological Survey of
Scotland, who produced testimonials of the highest class. The
Council have decided to sever the management of the Society’s
finances from the other business which devolves upon the
Keeper of the Museum, and your respected Treasurer has
kindly consented to allow one of his principal Clerks to take
charge of this department under his own superintendence.
Dr. Purves, therefore, after attending in the first place to the
general wants and interests of the Museum, will be able to

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REPORT OF THE

devote more time than any previous Keeper to the scientific
work, particularly to the re-arrangement of the Greological
Department.

The following Lectures have been delivered in the Theatre
of the Museum during the past year.

Subject.

Ealph Thoreshy, of Leeds, and

his Museum .

The Great Pyramid .

A Visit to the East in 1876 ....

The Greeks .

Weather Lore .

The Sequence of Climatic fluctu¬
ations and on permanent cli¬
matic changes in the British
Islands . .

Name oe Lectukek.

I Eev. Canon Eaine.

E. A. Pkoctor, B.A., F.E.A.S.
Eev. F. Lawrence, B. A.

J. W. Barry, Esq., B. A., Oxon.
Eev. a. Shadwell, M.A.

I Eev. a. Shadwell, M, A.

During the present session the lectures have been discon¬
tinued. The great labours entailed in re-arranging many
departments of the Museum have prevented your honorary
officers from devoting further time for the delivering of
lectures, whilst the many claims upon the income of the
Society have compelled your Council to decline the usual
grants to scientific experts, for lectures in the York Museum.

The following Members of Council retire by rotation, and
are ineligible for re-election during the present year : W.
Matterson, Esq., M. D., The Eev. George Eowe, Tempest
Anderson, Esq., M. D., and Joseph Wilkinson, Esq.

The Council recommend for election: W. C. Anderson, Esq.,
W. Atkinson, Esq., The Eev. T. B. B. Eerris, The Eev. G. H.
Hewison.

They recommend also the following additions to the list of
Honorary Members : Professor Oswald Heer, of the University
of Zuiich, E. G. S., Lond., author of the Primaeval World
of Switzerland. Professor Heer is specially distinguished for
the knowledge which he possesses of Fossil Botany, having
described the Plant remains from the Miocene beds of Bovey

COUNCIL FOR 1878.

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Tracy, and also the Plants from the Polar Eegions obtained
by the British Arctic Expeditions. Professor Paul Gervais,
Member of the Institute of France, Professor of Comparative
Anatomy in the Museum of Natural History, Paris, F. G. S.,
Loud. ; Professor Gervais is one of the most distinguished of
Continental Paloeontologists and is specially known by his
writings on the Fossil Yertebrata.

THE TREASUREE IN ACCOUNT WITH

THE YOEKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

FOR THE YEAR 1878.

,0 INCOME.

1878. £■ s. d. £. s. d.

Annual Subscriptiotis, Sj-c.:

Members . 71.5 0 0

Lady Subscribers . 78 1 0

Associates . 16 0 0

Arrears . .... 10 0 0

- 819 1 0

Admission Fees of New Members :

Paid in Full . . 27 0 0

Paid by Instalments .... 65 0 0

- 92 0 0

Composition in lieu of Subscriptions 25 0 0

Keys of the Gates . 52 0 0

Temporary Subscribers . 3 0 0

Fents :

New Manor Shore Pro¬
perty . 19 18 3

St. Mary’s Lodge . 54 6 3

Swimming Bath . 40 0 0

Boat Yard . 5 0 0

Water Works Co . 0 1 0

- 119 5 6

Gate Money . 312 ’7 9

Sale of Guide to Antiquities, &:c . 12 16 3

Use of Tent . 13 15 9

Sale of Duplicate Antiquarian Speci¬
mens . 1 0 0

1450 6 3

Excess of Expenditure, 31st Dec.,

1878 . 438 10 6

XT888 16 9

Pcnnancnt Debt:

Yorkshire Insurance

Company . 1900 0 0

Due to Two Members,

£50 each . 100 0 0

- 2000 0 0

Balance due to Trea¬
surer, 31st Dec., 1877 . 418 10 6
Excess of Expenditure

for 1878 . 438 10 6

- 857 1 0

.. £2857 1 0

EXPEND ITUEE.

1878. £. 8. d.

Crown Bent . 1 0 0

Corporation Rent . 19 11 8

Water Eent . 10 9 0

Eates and Taxes . 14 2 11

Insurance . 5 11 6

Salaries and Wages :

C. Wakefield . 140 0 0

H. Baines (Pension).... 26 17 10
J. Davison (Do.) .... 26 0 0

J. Fieldeu . 70 4 0

Lodge Keeper . 37 4 0

Attendant, Museum .... 46 16 0
Do., Hospitium . . 16 18 0

Gardeners . 182 2 0

Interest to Insurance Company ....

Interest and Commission to Bankers

General Expenses and Repairs :

Museum . 85 18 2

Estate . 29 19> 10

St. Mary’s Lodge . 24 12 2

Colouring Walls of Mu¬
seum, &c . 28 13 3

Entrance Lodge . 18 4 4

Entrance Hall Painting 6 14 6
Antiquities fixing in do. 16 12 2
Ethnological Room .... 77 7 9

Foreign Bird Room .... 11 5 0

Alterations in Geological

Eoom, &c . 198 2 9

Dr. Purves arranging

Specimens in do . 55 11 8

Mounting of Irish Elk. . 18 9 4

£. 8

d.

50 15 1

546 1 10
74 11 8
26 15 4

571 10 11

Gardens, Greenhouses, 4'c.;
General Expenses and

Repairs . 31

Seeds, &c . 5

10

1

Coals and Coke . 9 15

Inclosure of New

Grounds . 263 11

o

3

8

10

- 309 19

Purchase & Preparation of Specimens 19 16
Library: Books and Binding . 38 14

Miscellaneous Expenses :

Printing of Report and
Communications ....

Printing, Stationery, &c.

Coals and Gas . 41

Expenses of Lectures. .

Do. Bauds ....

Do. Roman

Antiquities, &c.

Subscription to Temple-
boro’ Fund . 20

Postages and Bridge

14

10

0

8

18

3

41

18

2

30

4

7

29

10

6

104

12

7

20

0

0

0

18

0

- 250 12 1

£1888 16 9

Permanent Debt:

Yorkshire Insurance

Company . .... 1900 0 0

Due to Two Members,

£50 each . 100 0 0

- 2000 0 0

Balance due to Treasurer, 31st Dec.,

1878 . 857 1 0

£2857 1 0

Audited and fouud correct, 23rd January, 1879,

F. L. MA^^AESLEY.

W. GRAY,

Treasurer.

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MEMBERS ELECTED IN 1878.

Stewart, Mrs., 2, St. Peter^s Terrace^ Clifton.
Mountain, J. W., Goodramgate.

Lambert, T. M., Parliament Street.

Brown, James, 19, Feasegate.

Swales, John, Goodramgate.

White, W. A., Clifto7i.

Ainsley, E-obert, 20, Pavement.

Dennison, William, Marygate.

Hardcastle, John, 19, Coney Street.

Sotheran, John, Coney Street.

Masterman, William, Parliament Street.

Smith, E. J., 38, Mount.

Hunter, Thomas, 21, Portland Street.

Thomjpson, Edward Percy, Sheriff Hutton Park.
Swaine, Mrs., St. Leonard'' s Place.

Paterson, Miss, Lord Mayor'' 8 Walk.

Kendall, E. B., 30, Pavement.

Yarey, W., Lord Mayor of York.

Inchbald, Miss, Bootham House.

Foster, L., Junior, 3, Tower Street.

Eitzsimons, H., M. D., Minster Yard.
Kitchingman, Philip, 10, Museum Street.

Eox, M. P., 12, Parliament Street.

Dove, E., Blake Street.

Lowe, A. T., North Eastern Hotel.

Hines, 0. H., Junior, St. Saviour's Place.

Faiers, William, Museum Street.

Bellerby, John, Holly Croft.

LADY SUBSCRIBERS, 1878.

Horsley, Miss, The Mount.

Eadcliffe, Mrs. Mary Anne, Be Grey Street.
Stephens, Mrs., 27, Be Grey Street.

Sutton, Mrs. George, 61«, G illy gate.

Sotheran, Mrs., Clifton.

Jakell, Mrs., The Mount.

ASSOCIATE.

Stephenson, Marshall, Museum Street.

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EESOLUTIONS

PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING-, FEBRUAEY 4th, 1879.

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1. That the Report of the Council now read be adopted and
printed for circulation amongst the Members, Lady Subscribers,
and Associates of the Society.

2. That the thanks of the Society be given to the Members of
Council retiring from office, also to the Treasurer, Secretary, and
Curators for their valuable services ; and that authority be given
to the Council to give admission to the Public to the Museum on
Whit-Monday and Tuesday, under the same regulations as last
year. >

3. That the thanks of the Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire
Philosophical Society be given to William Eeed, F. G. S., for the
donation of his valuable Collections in Geology to be added to
those in the Museum of the Society.

4. That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Chairman.

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DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM.

GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY.

Crompton, Miss Henrietta A Collection of Quartz crystals and

polislied pebbles.

Norcliffe, Rev. C. B . Aerolite wbicb fell in 1868 in the

Forest of Cbinon.

17 Fossils from Yals (France).

9 do. Cbinon (do.)

9 do. Prissac (do.)

3 do. Lisbon.

Raine, Rev. Canon . 2 Fossils from Marske.

Specimen of Amber.

Reed, Mr. W . Cast of Rostrum of Zipbius medilin-

eatus. Red Crag, Woodbridge.

Cast of tbe Cranium of Halitberium
Canbami, Flower. Red Crag,
Foxall.

Cast of basal portion of skull of
Tricbecodon Huxleyi. Red Crag,
Suffolk.

Cast of stem witb leaf-scars and fruits
of Mantellia inclusa, Carruthers.

Walker, Mr. J. F . 8 species of Yorkshire Permian Fossils.

- 0 -

ZOOLOaY.

Club,YorksbireNaturalists’ Carabus nitens, taken on Strensall

Common.

Crompton, Miss . Coral {Madrepora corymlosa).

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Hind, Mr. E . 9 specimens of Nepticnla snbbimacu-

lella.

3 do. Coleopbora genisticolella.

Krobn, Mrs . Sknll of Wild Boar.

SkiiU of Kaffir.

Eaine, Eev. Canon . Specimen of a Beetle {2Ionocliamns

dentator\ found at tbe Eailway
Works.

Eead, Mr. W. H. Eudston Two very fine specimens of tbe Great

Snipe (Scolo])ax major) shot at
Hay ton.

Walker, Mr. J. F . Yiper ( ; aEemora; Flying

Fisb ; Centipedes, Lizards, &c.
Specimen of Great Bat.

Do. Long-eared Bat.

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ANTIQUITIES.

Edston, Mr. G .

Leak, Mr., Walmgate . . . .

Norcliffe, Eev. C. B .

Nankivell, Mr. J. H .

Newton, Mr., Tower Street
Eaine, Eev. Canon .

A Eoman Vase.

Silver Penny of Edward II. ; Do. of
Edward YI., struck at Y'ork.

Calendar in bronze, 1777.

A number of Egyptian Antiquities.

4 Brass Coins ; 1 Silver do. ; Chinese
Gold Coin ; 3 do. Silver do.

2 Photographs of the recent Eoman
excavations at Lincoln.

Silver Pennj^ of Edward the Confessor,
struck at York.

Silver Coins struck at York; Penny
of Ethelred ; Do. of Eichard II. ;
Do. of Henry I. ; 3 Pennies of
Henry III. ; 2 do. of Edward I. ;
6 Groats and Half-Groats of
Edward I. and III. ; 3 Half-Groats
of Henry YI. ; 2 Pennies of

Edward lY. ; 3 Half-Groats and a
Penny of Henry YII. and YIII.

Key found on Scarbro’ Castle Hill.

Eeed, Mr. W

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Hobinson, Mr. T. W . 2 Pennies of Edward I., struck at

York.

Pookledge, Mr. W . Part of burnt boss and moulded rib

from York Minster old ceiling ;
Board from do. ; Carved Pose of
York ; parts of Beams of Belfrey
and Castlegate Churches ; Altar-
rails from St. Maurice and Castle¬
gate Churches ; Stall end from
South Kilvington, and do. from
Swillington ; Moulded piece from
St. Maurice ; 2 pieces of Oak

Cornice ; specimen of Brass work.

Smithson, Mr. E. W . Glass Bottles from Bairn.

Strephens, Pev. T . Medimval Pot, found in Goodramgate.

Valentine, Mr. A., Wliixhij Carnelian Ping-stone, conqueror tear¬
ing a captive away from an altar,
found in Blossom Street.

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LIBEAEY.

Academy, The .

Association, Geologists’ . .
Astronomer Poyal ......

Author, The

Author, The
Author, The

Author, The
Author, The

Atti della P. Accademia dei Lincei for
1878.

Proceedings, vol. v., Nos. 3, 4.

Astronomical Observations made at
the Poyal Observatory, Edinburgh,
1870 — 77, vol. xiv.

Pemarks on Shakespeare, his birth¬
place, &c., by C. Poach Smith.

Historia Filicum, by J. Smith, A.L. S.

On the Geology of Leicestershire, and
Peport of the Excursion of the
Geologists’ Association, by W. J.
Harrison.

Geology of the West Piding of York¬
shire, by W. J. Harrison.

On the Chalk of Yorkshire, by Pev.
J. E. Blake, M. A.

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Club, Tyneside Natui’alists’ Natural History Transactions of North¬
umberland and Durham, vol. vii.,
pt. 1.

Club, Dorset Natural His- \

tory and Antiquarian } Proceedings, 1877.

Field . '

Hudleston, Mr. W. H. . . Descriptive Catalogue of the Minerals

and Fossil Organic Pemains of
Scarborough and the vicinity.

India, Geological Survey of Palteontologia Indica, ser, ii. 3., ser.

iv. 2, ser. x. 3, and ser. xi. 2.

Pecords of Geological Survey of India,
vol. X., pts. 3, 4.

Indian Government . The Meteorology of the Bombay

Presidency, 2 vols.

Institution, Poyal, of Great ) _ .. _ ... ^ ^ ^

_ . . > Proceedings, vol. viii., pts. 3, 4.

Britain . )

Institution, Smithsonian. .
Institution, Hull Poyal . .
Kenrick, Mrs .

Mayer, Mr. Joseph .

Publishers, The .

Pead, Mr. W. H. Pudston

Paine, Pev. Canon .

Society, Chemical
Society, Hull Literary and

Philosophical .

Society, Leeds Literary and

Philosophical .

Society, Leicester Literary
and Philosophical ....
Society, Meteorological . ,

Peport for 1876.

Peport for 1877 — 78.

Numismatique de la Terre Sainte, par
F. de Saulcy.

Catalogue of the Mayer Collection,
pt. 1 . The Egyptian Antiquities.

The Mayer Collection in the Liverpool
Museum, considered as an educa¬
tional possession, by C. J. Gatty.

Nature for 1878.

Journal of the Linnean Society :

Zoology, Nos. 72 — 76.

Botany, Nos. 93 — 99.

Peports of the Whitby Philosophical
Society, 2 vols.

Journal for 1878.

I Peport for 1877 — 78.

I Peport for 1877 — 78.

j Peport for 1877.

Quarterly Weather Peport, pt. 3, 1875.

Meteorology of the North Atlantic,
during August, 1873, 2 vols.

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Society, Warwickshire
Natural History and

Archaeological .

Society, Zoological .

Society, Edinburgh Eoyal

Society, Geological .

Society, The Historic, of
Lancashire and Cheshire
Trustees, The . .

Eeport for 1877.

Transactions, vol. x., pts. 3 — 5.
Transactions, vol. xxviii., pt. 1.
Proceedings, Session 1876 — 77.
Quarterly Journal for 1878.

Transactions, 3rd ser., vol. vi.

11th Annual Peport of the Peabody
Museum of American Archaeology
and Ethnology.

SEETAL WOEKS SUBSCEIBED FOE.

Birds of x4sia, by John Gould, F. P. S.

Natural History of the Tineina, by H. T. Stainton, P.P. S.
Nautical Almanack.

Proceedings of the Zoological Society.

Publications of the Palaeontographical Society.

Publications of the Pay Society.

Sowerby’s Thesaurus Conchyliorum.

London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine.
Annals and Magazine of Natural History.

Geological Magazine.

Journal of the British Archaeological Association.
Numismatic Chronicle.

Memoires de la Societe Paleontologique Suisse.

D’Orbigny’s Paleontologie Erancaise.

Geological Pecord for 1875.

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