14 REPORT OF THE 



The Provincial Medical Association of England met again 

 in York in August last, and on this occasion, as on that of 

 their previous meeting in 1841, the Council gladly acceded 

 to their requdfet to be allowed to hold their sittings in the 

 Library and Theatre of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 

 The members of the Association inspected with much in- 

 terest the Roman surgical instruments which are preserved 

 in the Society's Museum, and which they had an oppor- 

 tunity of comparing with the engravings of similar in- 

 struments discovered in Herculaneum, and Pompei, and 

 figured in the dissertation of the Cavaliere Vulpes.* With 

 that friendly feeling which they will always entertain towards 

 every Society which has for its object either the discovery 

 of truth or the diffusion of knowledge, the Council opened 

 its collections to the members of the Yorkshire Union of 

 Institutes, which met here in the month of May under the 

 presidency of Lord Goderich. By an arrangement with the 

 York Horticultural Society, a Flower Show was held in the 

 grounds of the Museum, on the 3rd and 4th of July. The 

 display of flowers was very brilliant, the weather was auspicious, 

 and nearly 4000 persons were present. The Treasurer's 

 accounts will show that the result was in a small degree bene- 

 ficial to the finances of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 



From the register kept at the gates it appears that nearly 4000 

 persons annually pay for admission : 7000 more are admitted 

 by written orders. The strangers introduced personally by 

 members, though their numbers cannot be accurately ascer- 

 tained, probably exceed those who pay for admission ; and if to 

 these be added the multitudes who throng the Museima and 

 Gardens on the days of free admission at Whitsuntide, it will 

 be seen how largely our Institution ministers to the instruction 

 and gratification of the public. 



When the new arrangement, sanctioned by the last Annual 

 Meeting, was made with Mr. Charlesworth, he undertook to 

 give some lectures, bearing on those facts in Natural History 

 which could be illustrated by specimens in the Museum. He 



* Illustrazione di tutti gli stnunenti chirurgici scavati in Ercolano c in Pompei, 

 Napoli 1847. 



