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logical Institute, during their recent visit to York. It has, 

 however, been found advisable to postpone the completion of the 

 alterations connected with St. Leonard's Hospital, and the 

 entrance to the grounds, until the plans of the Corporation for 

 the splendid improvements contemplated in the adjoining streets 

 shall be finally and accurately defined. 



The improvements on which the Corporation have resolved, 

 and which now await the sanction of an Act of Parliament, 

 will prove in an especial manner advantageous to the Society, 

 by rendering the approach to the Gardens more handsome and 

 commodious, and the Museum more easily accessible to strangers. 



The Donations to the Collection of Antiquities during the past 

 year have not been numerous. For the most important of these, 

 a small Roman Altar, dedicated to the local deity Veterinus or 

 Veterineus, and found in a farm-house near the Roman Station 

 Magna, on the wall of Hadrian, the Society is indebted to 

 Edwin Smith, Esq. 



But if the Antiquarian department of the Museum has not 

 been enriched by many donations, it has received by purchase a 

 large addition of peculiar interest, — the Collection of the 

 remains of Roman York, formed during the course of more 

 than twenty years, with great industry and at considerable 

 expense, by Mr. W. Hargrove. This extensive collection con- 

 sists chiefly of an interesting portion of a tessellated pavement, 

 of inscribed monumental stones, earthen vessels, urns, and 

 lachrymatories, of various shapes and sizes, of fragments of 

 Samian ware, of vessels of glass, and of Roman coins, all found 

 in York. In addition to these, bronzes and fragments of enamel, 

 partly, perhaps, Roman, and partly Saxon or Mediaeval ; and 

 more than 2000 Northumbrian coins or Stycas, which being 

 added to the 1000 already in the cabinet of the Museum, it 

 may be safely affirmed that the Society is in possession of more 

 than half the hoard found in St. Leonard's Place in 1842 ; the 

 fourth of the great hoards of these coins (of which so much is 

 yet to be learned) discovered in this kingdom. 



The Yorkshire Philosophical Society already possessed a most 

 interesting collection of the remains ofEburacum; and when these 



