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REPORT OE THE 
expressed in it are considered to have exerted upon the direc¬ 
tion of the first French Revolution. 
Our Foreign Honorary Member, M. Boucher de Perthes, 
acknowledged his election by sending to the Society a complete 
set of his writings, not already in our Library. The Governor 
of the State of Iowa has forwarded the first two volumes of a 
beautifully illustrated work on the Geology of that State, 
published by its legislature, and distributed to public Institu¬ 
tions, and even to individual Geologists on this side of the 
Atlantic, with a liberality which we should wish to see imitated, 
in some degree, by our own Government. 
The Curator of Antiquities has not to report many additions 
to the Society’s collection during the past year. From our 
Honorary Member, M. Boucher de Perthes, of Abbeville, has 
been received a collection of flint implements, including speci¬ 
mens of the hatchets found in the valley of the Somme, which 
have lately excited much interest among Geologists and Anti¬ 
quaries. Mr. Drifiield has presented to the Society the valuable 
collection of Roman Antiquities found at the Mount, which 
had been deposited, during his minority, in the Hospitium. 
A Sepulchral Monument, found at the Convent, has been pre¬ 
sented by the Superioress of that establishment; and Dr. Eason 
Wilkinson, of Manchester, has presented to the Society the 
sculptured stone, lately found upon his property at Dringhouses, 
and representing, probably, an armourer of one of the Roman 
Legions who were quartered at York. Other contributions of 
objects of Antiquity have been announced at the Monthly 
Meetings of the Society. The most important event connected 
with the history of Roman York is the discovery of a portion 
of the original wall, in the rampart of the mediaeval wall on the 
Eastern side of Monk Bar. From the direction of the Roman 
wall, ascertained by previous excavations, no doubt was enter¬ 
tained that it must have existed in the position in which it has 
now been brought to light; but it is satisfactory to find that 
the inference drawn by the historian of Roman York* has been 
confirmed by the evidence of fact. 
* See “ Eburacum ; or, York under tbe Romansby the late Rev. Charles 
WellbeloA'Cd, p. 53. 
