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May 4th. Dr. Goldie, V. P., in the Chair. 



John Wilson, Esq., (Solicitor,) and William Webster, Esq., 

 both of York, were elected Subscribing Members. 



The following additions were announced to the Museum and 

 Library. 



By Donation. 



From the Rev. G. R. Read, two specimens of fan-coral, 

 from the East Indies. 



From John Wood, Esq., a Roman or Roman-British vase, 

 found about four feet below the surface at Scoreby. 



From H. Tuke Holmes, Esq., a large fragment of a Roman 

 (Samian) bowl, found in York, and belonging to the late 

 F. J. Copsie, Esq. 



From Dr. Goldie, a Saxon sceatta, according to Ruding, of 

 Egbert, King of Kent, A. D. 665-674 ; but according to Haw- 

 kins, of Eadbert, King of Northumbria, 737-758. 



From F. B. Hacket, Esq., a coin of Gallienus, third brass, 

 found in the Garden of the donor, Bootham. 



From the Directors of the East India Company, per Dr. 

 Forbes Royle, twelve species of Orchidea?, from the Botanic 

 Garden at Calcutta. 



From Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (the Author), " On the 

 Silurian Rocks of part of Sweden," extracted from the Journal 

 of the Geological Society ; and " A brief review of the Classifi- 

 cation of the Sedimentary Rocks of Cornwall," from the Trans- 

 actions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. 



From the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, their Four- 

 teenth Annual Report. 



From Giles Mimby, Esq. (the author), " Flore de I'Alg^rie 

 ou Catalogue des Plantes indigenes du Royaume d' Alger, accom- 

 pagne des descriptions de quelques especes nouvelles ou peu 

 connues, par G. Munby, Colon d' Alger," Paris, 8vo., 1847. 



(Froceedinga T. P, S., 1M7.) G 



