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which the Yorkshire Museum was founded, and justifies ,th«r 

 very liberal patronage which it has received. 



Whilst the collections of Natural History have been thus 

 enriched, there have been presented to the Library Fifty- 

 seven Volumes, with the numbers hitherto published of 

 M. Audubon's splendid work on the birds of America ; ' and to 

 the Antiquarian Cabinet, one hundred and fifty-five Coins, 

 Medals, and dies. The most interesting of the coins is that 

 of Archbishop Vigmund, ^ on account of its having been 

 found under the foundations of the rampart immediately 

 adjoining Micklegate Bar ; thus furnishing some additional 

 evidence as to the age in which that rampart was built. 

 Among the Miscellaneous Antiquities, the large and figured 

 iirn,^ found with human bones in a tumulus near Bishop- 

 Burton, in the East-riding of Yorkshire, is peculiarly curious ; 

 as it serves both to elucidate the mode of sepulture practised 

 among our British ancestors, and at the same time, to show 

 the progress which they had made, under their masters the 

 Roniians, in some of the arts of life. 



But on nothing, connected with Antiquarian Research, has 

 the Society so much reason to congratulate itself, as on 

 having been the means of uncovering to view, the foundations 

 of the Abbey of St. Mary ; of bringing again to light, many 

 exquisite specimens of sculpture which once adorned that 

 magnificent fabric, and of enabling the antiquary to correct 



' Subscribed for by several members of the Society. 

 ' Presented by Mr. Bleckly. * Presented by Dr. Hull, of Beverley. 



