10 REPORT OF THE 



St. Mary's Abbey and other mediseval edifices in York, and, with 

 an addition now in progress, will further afford an appropriate 

 depository for the more bulky Roman remains (altars, sarco- 

 phagi, inscribed stones, &c.), mostly discovered in and around 

 York; so that the entire building will comprise a Museum 

 of Local Antiquities, adding greatly to the stores of instruc- 

 tion and interest which the Society is enabled to present 

 to its Members and Visitors. The whole collection, however, 

 will require complete and careful arrangement, to render it as 

 instructive as it is intrinsically valuable ; and the Council have 

 reason to hope for very efficient assistance in this necessary 

 work. The addition to the accommodations in the Hospitium, 

 to M'hich reference has just been made, the Council have been 

 enabled to accomplish by the liberal benefaction of a deceased 

 Member and zealous friend of the Society, the late Mr. Copsie, 

 who bequeathed to the Society the sum of £100,, accompanied 

 by the expression of his desire that it should be applied to some 

 object connected with the department of Antiquities ; a condi- 

 tion with which the Council could not hesitate in complying. 

 Concurring cordially in the opinion of the Curator of Antiqui- 

 ties, that the legacy could not be devoted to a better purpose, 

 or one more in accordance with the wishes of the testator, the 

 Council at once decided to apply it to the substantial restoration 

 of that part of the lower story of the Hospitium which still lay in 

 ruins. This work is now proceeding, and will be completed as 

 soon as the season permits, at a cost little exceeding the amount 

 of the proceeds of the legacy. 



In the department of Natural History, the report of the 

 Keeper of the Museum shews the continued exertion of his 

 zealous care of the collections committed to his superintendence, 

 and records many valuable additions to their contents. Those 

 to the Geological collection include the valuable purchase 

 effected by Mr. Charlesworth, of two Saurian heads from the 

 Lias of Whitby, the one a Teleosaurus, the other an undeter- 

 mined species of Ichthyosaurus. " These specimens," observes 

 Mr. C, " form a great addition to our collection of extinct Rep- 

 tilia, and I believe they may, in some respects, be respectively 



