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The total sura, therefore, which has been laid out by the 

 Committee, is £8500, of which about £300 may be considered 

 as balanced by the value of two hundred copies of the 

 publication on St. Mary's Abbey, placed at the disposal of the 

 Council by the Society of Antiquaries. Thus the expenditure 

 has exceeded by £200 the sum at which the execution of 

 the whole undertaking was estimated in the last Report. 

 And though the work is in other respects essentially com-> 

 plete, no provision has been made for fitting up the interior 

 of the Museum with Cases, for the reception of the Society's 

 extensive collections. The error of the estimate, however, 

 will not appear considerable, when it is recollected that to 

 the usual causes which operate in carrying the expense of 

 such undertakings beyond the calculation, there is to be 

 added, in this instance, the variety of objects which were 

 to be accomplished, and the extent and peculiar character 

 of the ground which was to- be enclosed, and excavated, 

 and brought into use. 



The actual deficiency of the subscriptions is between five 

 and six hundred pounds ; and to raise this sum, and to 

 procure the means of fitting up the Museum, an application 

 has recently been made to the public. It is true that a 

 small additional donation from each member of the Society, 

 would relieve the Institution from embarrassment ; and it 

 will be observed with pleasure by the Meeting, that the name 

 of one of its most distinguished Patrons^ stands again at the 

 head of a list of Subscribers, who have come forward since the 



* The Archbishop of York. 



