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Sunday after the feast of St. Michael, A.D. 1528, and ending 

 with the same Sunday, A.D. 1529. The Curator hopes to he 

 able to present a transcript of this document, or at least, such 

 an abstract of it, as may exhibit the information it conveys 

 concerning the domestic state of the Abbey, at a period so near 

 to the time of its suppression. To Robert Davies, Esq., the 

 Society is indebted for a valuable addition to the Cabinet of 

 Coins ; consisting of 40 silver pennies, groats, &c., of various 

 kings, beginning with Canute, in excellent condition, and of 

 which 20 were struck at York. A valuable present of Roman 

 and mediaeval remains, found at Lincoln, has also been re- 

 ceived from Mrs. Hutton, of Beverley. 



Several members of the Society having expressed a wish to 

 subscribe towards the purchase of a Roman Altar and other 

 interesting relics found during the restoration of the church of 

 St. Dennis in this city, the Council became responsible for the 

 purchase, and they were finally secured at a cost to the Society 

 of £5. 8s. Od. An account of this very curious Altar, by the 

 Curator of Antiquities, will be found in the Proceedings before 

 alluded to. The Society is in possession of the largest collection 

 of Northumbrian Stycas probably in existence, amounting to 

 about 5000, formed from the two great hoards of St. Leonard's 

 Place, York, and Bolton Percy. The Curator has employed 

 much of his time in arranging these, and in drawing up a rough 

 catalogue of them, a fair transcript of which he hopes, ere long, 

 to lay before the Society. 



By means of donations and exchanges, several valuable 

 additions have been made to the Geological Collection. A fine 

 example of the Ichthyosaurus, from Lyme Regis, has been pre- 

 sented by Mr. E. Higgins. This specimen, which is about eight 

 feet in length, has the spinal column complete to the terminal 

 caudal vertebra : it also exhibits the four paddles and the bones 

 of the head in a very instructive manner. Before receiving this 

 donation, the Society possessed only a few detached bones and 

 casts of portions of the skeleton to illustrate this remarkable 

 extinct reptilian type. The Trustees of the British Museum 

 have presented to the Society some of the reptilian and mam- 

 malian Fossils, collected by Capt. Cautley and Dr. Falconer in 



