6 REPORT OF 



this department the proceeds of his lectures, frames have been 

 constructed to shelter the more tender herbaceous plants 

 during the winter, and thus provide a source of increasing 

 beauty and interest. 



The Library is indebted to a similar act of generosity, 

 originating with the Rev. Archdeacon Markham, for the 

 addition of Brown''s Conchology , Hooker'^s Jungermanniae, and 

 Knorr's Petrefactenkunde. Mr. Hunter has presented to it 

 his admirable Histories of Hallamshire, and of the Deanery of 

 Doncaster ; and Dr. Pearson has given fifty copies of his 

 Tables for the reduction of astronomical observations. 



This munificent Patron of Astronomy will contemplate 

 with satisfaction the Observatory which is now rising to 

 receive his instruments and employ his useful tables. The 

 Committee appointed for this object have been scrupulously 

 attentive to the main point of a solid foundation and an im- 

 moveable basis for the instruments ; they have made provision 

 for a large transit and a circular instrument, and, by placing 

 the revolving telescope on a separate foundation, believe that 

 they shall at once secure accurate observations for time and 

 position, and allow, on suitable occasions, more popular views 

 of the heavenly phenomena. 



The Committee to whom the Society confided the duty of 

 inquiring into the Axtiquities of Yorkshire, and of collect- 

 ing materials for a general topographical history of the county, 

 had the great advantage of being aided in the commencement 

 of their labours, by the learning and experience of the Rev. 

 Joseph Hunter, who kindly furnished them with a most com- 

 plete series of queries, embracing every point on which the 

 topographer requires information. These queries the Com- 

 mittee have caused to be extensively circulated through the 

 county ; and they have received expressions of cordial appro- 



