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REPORT OF THE 



tion of finding tliat the design planned by Sir John Nasmyth, 

 and now far advanced towards completion under the superin- 

 tendence of the Garden Committee, has met with very general 

 acceptance. 



Amongst the happiest incidents of these improvements may 

 be enumerated the addition of an architectural platform which 

 has long been desired to give full efi'ect to the fa9ade of the 

 Museum, the exposure of the moulded base of the Hospitium 

 with the adjoining archway, and the opening out a better view 

 of the beautiful remnants of mixed Norman and Pointed archi- 

 tecture connected with the Abbey. 



That which still remains to be wished, for the perfection of 

 the alterations on which so much care has been bestowed, is to 

 include, if possible, within the Society ""s precincts those re- 

 mains of monastic antiquity contiguous to the principal 

 entrance, which the public spirit of the Corporation has re- 

 cently relieved from the mean sheds and walls by which they 

 were defaced -and concealed. 



On the subject of these remains the Council purpose to pre- 

 sent the following memorial : 



" To the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of YorJc, 



TUE MEMORIAL OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



Sheweth, 



That the Hospital of St. Leonard's 



was one of the most ancient and most richly endowed of the 

 Religious Houses established in York. Only one small por- 

 tion of this Hospital, which formerly occupied a considerable 

 space, is now remaining, supposed to be a part of a covered 

 cloister or ambulatory, and exhibiting an interesting specimen 

 of the architecture of the age to which it belongs. In the 

 changes which York is undergoing, it is not improbable that 

 it may share the fate of St. William's Chapel and other 

 relics of past ages recently swept away, unless it shall be 

 placed under the protection of some public institution, in- 

 terested in the preservation of the antiquities by which the 



