25 REPORT OF 



its duty to the Crown and the Public, by earnest and dis- 

 interested efforts in the advancement of natural and antiqua- 

 rian Science in Yorkshire. 



To have added some portion of the newly acquired pro- 

 perty to the already spacious grounds connected with the 

 Museum, might have opened to the Members some monastic 

 reliques and architectural combinations of great pictorial 

 beauty; but was impracticable in the present condition of 

 the Society's finances. The Council therefore appointed a 

 Committee, by whose judgment they have been much guided 

 in apportioning the ground among some of the old tenants, 

 and various new claimants. 



In this duty they were sedulous to accomplish the re- 

 moval of unsightly walls and tenements, from the Abbey 

 lodge and gateway, the city wall and granary of the Abbey ; 

 all modes of occupation which might be likely to injure the 

 pleasing effects thus produced were rejected ; and in dividing 

 the land, care has been taken that if, at any future time, 

 the Society shall resolve to augment its botanic garden, 

 those parts likely to be most desirable shall be easily re- 

 claimable at a short notice, and in a state of improved adap- 

 tation. 



With a desfare to aid as far as may be the course of 

 improvements now happily begun in York, the Council 

 entertained proposals from a Company for the erection of 

 a public Swimming Bath, and allotted for their use an acre 

 of ground, under certain necessary conditions, adjoining the 

 Abbey waU and the river ; but this negociation is yet, in- 

 complete. 



The payment to the Crown for the five acres and a 

 half of ground, and the buildings and other property upon 



