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interpretation of one portion of it has exercised, hitherto in 

 vain, the ingenuity of several learned antiquaries. 



The Roman pavement at Oulston, near Easingwold, still 

 remains in the state described in the last Report. The death 

 of the late Sir George Wombwell, and the absence of his 

 successor from England, prevented its removal during the 

 favourable season of the year, but when this returns, the 

 Council will proceed to act upon the permission which they 

 have received to transfer it to the Museum of the Society. 



Towards the close of the year 1854 the Council were informed 

 that it was intended to destroy the gateway of the ancient 

 Priory of the Holy Trinity, in Micklegate. Desirous to preserve 

 this last relic of the dependent buildings belonging to a religious 

 house, which is connected with the history of York before the 

 Norman Conquest, they addressed a representation to the pro- 

 prietor of the ground on which it stood ; but were informed 

 that its preservation was impossible, except on conditions with 

 which it was not in their power to comply. While the Council 

 deeply regret the destruction of another of those monuments 

 which gave to our city its interesting and characteristic appear- 

 ance, they may be allowed to congratulate the citizens of York 

 and the lovers of antiquity in general, that so many of these are 

 now secured from destruction, by being included within the 

 precincts of a Society which appreciates their importance and 

 is pledged to their preservation. 



Among the additions made to the Library in the course of 

 the last year, the largest and most valuable is that of the 

 Philosophical Transactions from the year 1835, the donation 

 of the Rev. Wm. Taylor, F. R. S., an honorary member of this 

 Society, who has promised to present the future volumes as they 

 appear. Lord Londesborough has presented five more numbers 

 of the Miscellanea Graphica, containing engravings of works 

 of Mediaeval art from his Museum, recently enriched by many 

 valuable additions from the collection of Mr. Bernal. This 

 work is curious not only as illustrating the state of art in the 

 middle ages by many exquisite specimens, but as exhibiting the 

 perfection to which chromolithography has attained. Professor 

 Sedgwick has presented a copy of the beautiful and elaborate 



