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The Curator of Antiquities reports, that the principal 

 additions made to his Department in the present year, have 

 been the result of excavations carried on at the Mount, which 

 has in past times yielded so many objects of the sepulchral 

 class to the Museum. In an excavation at the corner of Hol- 

 gate Lane, a fictile urn was discovered, of a character almost 

 unique, having the shape of a human head, with the counte- 

 nance distinctly expressed. In digging for the foundation of a 

 house on the Driffield estate at the Mount, a sarcophagus was 

 found, bearing the name of ^lia Severa and dedicated to her 

 manes by her husband. It was covered by an incised slab, 

 dedicated by Caeresius, a soldier of the Sixth Conquering 

 Legion, to the manes of his wife, Flavia Augustina, and two 

 children who died in their infancy. The upper part of the 

 stone represents the parents and their children. The sarcopha- 

 gus contained the remains of a body which had been enclosed 

 in liquid plaster, a mode of interment very common in Roman 

 York, but rare elsewhere. Near the same place another sarco- 

 phagus was found, containing a similar interment, but without 

 any inscription. All these antiquities have been given to the 

 Museum, and the names of the donors will be found in the 

 lists appended to the Report. 



From Dr. Smart, of Northiam, have been received several 

 specimens of what has been called Kimmeridge Coal Money, 

 but is really the refuse of the pieces of this material which had 

 been worked by the lathe into bracelets and other ornaments, 

 in the Roman times. The cabinet of coins has received the 

 accession of some silver denarii, among which is one of the 

 family Memmia, and an Attic tetradrachm, bearing the names 

 of Diodes and Medeius. 



The only addition to the collection of Minerals has consist- 

 ed of a case of specimens presented by the Rev. Danson Rich- 

 ardson Roundell, to whom the Society was already indebted 

 for the magnificent Ichthyosaurus exhibited in the new room. 

 The collection sent by Mr. Roundell included none that call 

 for special notice. 



Besides the important series of fossils purchased from Mr. 

 Bean and already referred to, the Geological collection has 



