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Members of the Society, tbat it would be desirable to tbin the 
trees and shrubs in most parts of the Grarden, as they were not 
only encroaching considerably upon the space intended for the 
accommodation of visitors, and preventing the free circulation of 
air in the Grrounds, but actually causing injury to each other by 
interference during growth. Nevertheless, the Grardens were still 
so beautiful during the summer, and the effects of the skill and 
taste with which they were originally laid out were so obvious, 
that the Council naturally hesitated before giving orders for the 
extensive thinning out and pruning that had become requisite, 
fearful lest some error in the performance of a necessary 
o]3eration might injure the general appearance of the Grardens. 
On the acquisition of the new ground the necessity of im- , 
proving the approaches to it brought the general question of 
the condition of the trees in the Grardens more prominently 
before the Council, and a Committee, consisting of the Rev. 
Canon Hey, W. H. Rudston Read, Esq., R. Denison, Esq., 
and the Secretary, was appointed to determine what was 
required to be done for the improvement of the Grrounds in this 
particular, and to superintend the operation. The Society is 
much indebted to these gentlemen, and especially to Mr. Read, 
for the attention which has been paid to this important matter; 
and the Council is convinced that as the summer advances it 
will prove that their labours have effected a great improvement 
in the appearance of the Grounds. 
The Donations to the Collections in the Museum have neither 
been numerous nor generally of great importance. 
The chief additions to the Geological and Mineralogical 
Collections have consisted of a selection of Minerals and 
Fossils, the latter chiefly from the Crag, presented by the 
Rev. James Raine; and of a fui’ther series of Fossils from the 
Tipper Greensand of Cambridge, with a few Rom other forma¬ 
tions in the same district, presented by Mr. J. F. Walker. 
In the year 1854 considerable portions of a Roman Tesselated 
Pavement were brought from Dalton Parlours, near Collingham, 
where a Roman Yilla stood.* They have since remained in 
detached fragments in the possession of the Society, but have 
* See Proceedings of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, p. 270. 
