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lated from the Dutch of D. Rembert Dodoens, by John Lite, 

 1578. 



FromT. W.Wilson, Esq., the "York Herald," Nos. 1 to 

 157, (1790 to 1792), half bound, in one volume, folio. 



From Edward Charlesworth, Esq., No. 2 of The London 

 Geological Journal (Duplicate.) 



By Purchase. 



A specimen of the Black Swan, from Australia. 



From the Ray Society, " Burmeister on the Organization, &c., 

 of Trilobites," — " Nudibranchiate MoUusca," by Messrs. Alder 

 and Hancock, part 3. 



The Chairman, after remarking upon the value of the 

 donations, announced to the meeting that F. J. Copsie, Esq., 

 lately deceased, one of the earliest members and warmest 

 supporters of the society, had by will bequeathed to it a legacy 

 of £100. 



The following letter from Chas. Newton, Esq., of the British 

 Museum, addressed to John Phillips, Esq., was then read :— 



British Museum, March 13, 1847. 



My Dear Sir, — 



As you are good enough to give me an 

 opportunity of addressing the Members of the Yorkshire Philo- 

 sophical Society once more on the subject of British and Roman 

 antiquities in this county, I will, in the first place, briefly recapi- 

 tulate what I stated in my Memoir at the Meeting of the 

 Archaeological Institute. On that occasion I pointed out that 

 by a series of dated monuments, the occupation of Yorkshire 

 by the Romans from the time of Domitian to the third 

 century, a. d. was satisfactorily proved, and that the extent 

 and permanence of that occupation was further shewn by the 

 number and importance of the Roman roads, camps, and other 

 military works. 



That while the Roman population was gathered together in 

 large towns, placed so as to command the navigable rivers, 



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