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REPORT OF THE 
The Mineralogical Collection has been enriched with some 
line specimens of Haematite and Associated Minerals from 
Dalton, in Furness, presented by Dr. Gibson. No other 
minerals of importance have been acquired. 
The Curator of Antiquities has little to report, except the 
addition of a few Coins to the Society’s Collection. The Lease 
about to be granted by the Crown of a large part of the ancient 
Close of the Abbey of St. Mary will realise a wish long enter¬ 
tained, that all which remains of the Church should be included 
within the grounds of the Society. 
The recent restoration of a Tomb in the North Aisle of the 
Minster excited a hope that an examination of its contents 
might afford some information respecting the personage who 
had been interred there. From the small size of the sepulchral 
chest which the tomb contained, it was evident that the bones 
deposited within it had been removed from their original place 
of interment, and the remains of a vestment of cloth of gold 
indicated that the relics were those of a person of high ecclesi¬ 
astical rank,—probably an Archbishop. The tradition of the 
Church, which cannot, however, be traced higher than the end 
of the seventeenth century, assigns the tomb to Archbishop 
Roger, who died in 1181, having occupied the See from 1154. 
He was the founder of the Chapel of St. Mary and All Angels, 
close to the door of which the tomb has been placed; subse¬ 
quently to the erection of the Nave this body may have been 
removed from that Chapel into the Church: there is, however, 
no record of a burial there, or a removal. The style of the 
tomb seems to refer it to the end of the fifteenth or the 
beginning of the sixteenth century. 
The Curator of Comparative Anatomy reports the addition 
of only one specimen to the Collection under his charge, 
namely, a Skeleton of the Iceland Falcon, purchased by the 
Society. 
The Curator of British Ornithology has to report no 
additions to the Collection during the year 186^. He hopes 
in the course of the present year to see the commencement, 
at least, of a Collection of British Mammalia, the formation of 
which he urged upon the Council in his last Report. 
