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REPORT OF THE 



very moderate cost, several highly useful and important works 

 on Natural History, part of a collection submitted to public 

 auction in this city during last summer, a list of which will be 

 found in the appendix to this report. The Council continue to 

 subscribe for, amongst others, the valuable publications of 

 the Ray Society ; for the splendid work of Mr. Gould on the 

 Birds of Australia, and Mr. Gray's no less beautiful publica- 

 tion on the Genera of Birds ; and in the antiquarian branch 

 of the Library, for the works of Archdeacon Churton on the 

 Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire, and of Mr. Browne on the History 

 of York Minster (the latter within one part of its completion). 

 The Curator of Meteorology has presented to the Council his 

 observations on the weather at York, the results of which are 

 contained in the following Table : — 



METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER— YORK, 1846. 



Barometer. Thermometer. 



