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Sarcophagi known to have been found among Roman remains 

 in York. 



The Council, on some former occasions, have had to refer to 

 Floricultural and Horticultural Exhibitions, held in the Museum 

 Gardens during the preceding year. To these the Council still 

 look back with pleasure ; but it is with peculiar satisfaction they 

 have now to notice, that during the meeting of the Yorkshire 

 Agricultural Society in York, in August last, an Exhibition 

 of an entirely novel kind, was presented to the Members and 

 the Public, by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. It was 

 described by the Council, in one of the programmes, to be 

 " An Exhibition of Plants, remarkable for variety, beauty, and 

 utility in the Arts, comprising living plants and preparations 

 of the parts most curious in structure, most instructive in 

 physiology, or most valuable in food, medicine, and the Arts." 



To enable them to effect an object of such importance, the 

 Council sought from every quarter likely to afford it assistance 

 and co-operation ; and from the Royal Gardens, Kew ; the Royal 

 Botanic Society's Garden, Regent's Park ; the Royal Society's 

 Garden, Edinbro' ; the Honourable the East India Company ; 

 the Apothecary's Garden, Chelsea ; His Grace the Duke of 

 Northumberland ; Dr." Lindley ; Professor Balfour ; Professor 

 Royle ; and numerous other parties, the Council received the 

 most friendly and valuable assistance, for which the Society is 

 under lasting obligation. 



The result fully justified the most sanguine anticipations of 

 the Council, as to the success of the Exhibition ; and the Council 

 point with pleasure to the Appendix to this Report, containing 

 a detailed account of the specimens exhibited, and an accurate 

 list of the numerous friends who kindly rendered their valuable 

 aid on this occasion. 



Observations on the thermometer and barometer have been 

 kept up through the year, and the results have been exhibited 

 in the vestibule of the Museum. Observations have been kept 

 up on the transit instrument, which, with the clocks, is in a 

 satisfactory state. 



