t HEPOllT OF THE 



Study and reference. * To provide additional cases for Bri- 

 tish and Foreign Entomology will be the duty of the next 

 Council. 



COINS AND ANTIQUITIES. 

 Besides some Greek and Roman Coins of interest, f the 

 most remarkable donations to the Antiquarian department are 

 the Roman Votive Stone, presented to the Society by the City 

 Council, inscribed 



GENIO • LOCI 

 FELICITER 



and two Roman stone coffins, found in the Castle Yard during 

 the alterations made there in November, 1835, and lately 

 transferred by the hberality of the County Magistrates from the 

 Castle to the Museum. On one of these coffins is the following 

 inscription : — 



AVR • SVPEllO • CENT 



LEG • VI • QVI • VIXIT ' ANIS 



XXXVIII M im T) XIH • AVRE 



LIA • CENSORINA ' CONIVNX 



MEMORIAM • POSVIT 



Encouraged by the interest which has thus been manifested 

 in the prosperity of the Society, by the public authorities of 

 the city and the county, the Council have made application 

 for some other architectural and sepulchral monuments which 

 might be fitly preserved in the Yorkshire Museum. In con- 

 sequence the statue of a knight templar has been saved from 

 further injury in a wall near Walmgate, to take its station 

 among the coeval sculptures of St. Mary's Abbey, and the 

 Council have not despaired of exciting attention to their 

 reasonable requests in other quarters. To complete the col- 

 lection of sepulchral relics in the multangular tower, one or 



* Mr. W. C. Hewitson, (author of British Oology) during the time of his stay 

 in York, gave able assistance as joint curator with Mr. Meynell. 

 t Presented by C. H. Elsley, Esq., Rev. Dr. Barnes, Rev. C. Wellbeloved, &c. 



