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REPORT OF THE 
memorates Mars, and your Curator sees no reason as yet to 
deviate from this view which he formed at the first. He is 
happy, however, to say that the subject will soon receive a 
thorough elucidation from the Eev. C. W. King, of Trinity 
College, Cambridge, the best authority in this country on every¬ 
thing relating to Statuary and Gems. The Society is already 
indebted to Mr. King for the very remarkable result of his 
investigations into the history of Demetrius the Scribe, who is 
commemorated on some bronze tablets which have long been in 
the possession of the Society. We owe the possession of the 
Statue and the three Altars to the authorities of St. Mary’s 
Convent, who most generously ceded them for the public good, 
and the Society is also obliged to Mr. K. Hehden, Sculptor, 
who made the stone base on which the Statue is placed, and 
supplied the missing feet of the figure without any cost to us 
either in material or workmanship. The figime will long 
remain, it is to be hoped, one of the chief ornaments of the 
Entrance Hall in the Museum. 
The new case for English Antiquities has been completed 
during the year and placed in the Ethnological Boom. It con¬ 
tains a very large assemblage of cmiosities of various kinds, 
many of which have never been exhibited before. The upper 
part of the Case is occupied by between forty and fifty Anglian 
Urns, discovered in 1878-9, in an ancient Cemetery near 
Heworth, and unrivalled as yet in number and interest. They 
were built up from the ruins in which they were found by the 
skill and patience of the late Dr. Gibson. It is much to he 
desired that our scanty Collection of British Pottery should he 
larger than it is. 
It will he necessary during the current year to re-exhibit 
the Egyptian Antiquities, which from want of room have been 
laid to one side for the last two years. It is proposed to place 
the large Mummy from Thebes in the Entrance Hall among 
the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. The more minute 
remains can find a home in one of the smaller cases in the Ethno¬ 
logical Boom which must he slightly altered to receive them. 
The Curator of British Ornithology has to report the 
captiu’e of two rare British Birds during the past year. He is 
