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paper which he was about to read at the Meeting of the 

 Archaeological Institute, in that city. Edward H. Reynard, 

 Esq., of Sunderlandwick, near Driffield, has presented to the 

 Museum a coffin, supposed to be British, of unusual dimen- 

 sions, hollowed from the trunk of an oak, and containing, 

 when discovered, the remains of several skeletons. 



Other antiquities, not of a local character, have been 

 received during the year : from the Rev. J. J. Harrison, some 

 fictile vases and other objects from the Museum at Kertch ; 

 from the Misses Cheap, a collection made by their late brother 

 during his travels in Egypt. 



The Library has received from Lord Londesborough the 

 successive numbers of his Miscellanea Graphica, now ap- 

 proaching completion ; from the Spalding Club a beautiful and 

 instructive volume " On the Sculptured Stones of Scotland ;" 

 from the Board of Admiralty a volume of Magnetical Obser- 

 vations ; and from various Scientific and Literary Societies 

 copies of their Transactions and Proceedings. Some valuable 

 Works have also been added, by purchase, to the Library ; 

 in Natural History, the beautiful work " On the Ferns of 

 Great Britain and Ireland," illustrated by the new process of 

 nature printing. In antiquities, the concluding numbers of 

 the Monastic Remains of Yorkshire, published by Mr. Sunter, 

 under the editorship of Archdeacon Churton; Artis's Duro- 

 brivse, and Faussett's Inventorium Sepulcrale, containing an 

 account of those researches among the Kentish Tumuli, which 

 gave the first insight into the proper classification of Saxon 

 antiquities. 



The Alphabetical Catalogue has been transcribed, and is 

 ready for printing, whenever it may be thought expedient. 



According to the report of the Curator of Meteorological 

 Instruments (Mr. Ford) the amount of rain for York has 

 exceeded, in the last year, a mean quantity of about 2 inches. 

 This excess has not compensated for the defect of the three 

 previous years. The following statement seems to indicate a 

 tendency to a diminished annual fall in the plain of York : — 



