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would have been removed to the Museum of the Society three 

 or four months ago, by permission of the late Sir G. Wombwell, 

 on whose estate it was found, and with the sanction of the 

 Council, if the weather had not been so unfavourable. Effec- 

 tual means have been taken to secure it from injury during the 

 winter ; and there is no reason to apprehend that the present 

 owner will revoke the gift of his predecessor ; especially as this 

 beautiful specimen of Roman decoration must inevitably be 

 destroyed, if the Yorkshire Philosophical Society abandon it. 



It may perhaps be thought not advisable, to incur the 

 expense of adding to our Antiquarian Collections more objects 

 of this description, interesting as they may be, since in the 

 present state of our finances, it is not possible to provide a 

 suitable place for exhibiting them to the public. This is 

 certainly a circumstance to be deeply regretted. But the 

 Council would beg leave to suggest that it is a matter of great 

 importance, not to say, the duty of the Society, even at some 

 inconvenience, to rescue such interesting objects from destruc- 

 tion ; and it surely may be hoped, that by the improvement 

 of its finances, or by the revival of that zeal which the 

 public manifested, when the pavements in Toft Green were 

 discovered, the Society will be enabled, at no very distant 

 period, to erect a building in which all these specimens of 

 Roman domestic ornamentation may be preserved and dis- 

 played. 



Some deficiencies in the series of English coins in the cabinet 

 of the Society, particularly of Hen. V. and Hen. VII., have 

 recently been supplied by Mr. Davies. The Curator has 

 added several denarii to the series of the Roman Families. 

 Mr. Procter has presented five antient brass coins, Greek, and 

 Roman Provincial, not in very good condition, but interesting 

 as having been found by Dr. Layard at Nineveh. 



The Rev. John Ward, of Wath, has presented to the Society 

 a large collection of drawings, representing the decorated pave- 

 ment in encaustic tiles at Jervaulx Abbey, made by order of the 

 late Earl of Ailesbury in 1807, when the ruins of the Abbey 

 were excavated. 



The additions made to the Library by donation or purchase 



