COUNCIL FOR 1863. 
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Congress this year at Leeds, and that one day would he devoted 
to a visit to York and the examination of its antiquities. The 
Council gladly agreed to open its Grounds and Collections to 
the Association, and prepared the outline of a route by which 
the principal objects of antiquity in the city might he most 
conveniently inspected. About fifty Members of the Association 
visited York on the 19th of October, and the Council have 
received from the Treasurer and Secretary acknowledgments of 
the success which attended their arrangements. To this result 
the kind co-operation of the Lord Mayor (W. Fox Clark, Esq.) 
and The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean contributed in no small 
degree. 
Two works published by Members of this Society in the 
course of the past year call for special notice in connexion with 
our local antiquities. The Rev. W. H. Dixon, F. S. A., by 
whom the Fasti Eboracenses were projected, was a Member of 
the first Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, at its 
foundation in 1823. The memory of many readers of Mr. 
Raine’s Preface to the learned and interesting work in which 
he has enlarged and completed Mr. Dixon’s plan, will bear 
testimony to the truth of the character given of him by the 
editor. In the “ Life of Marmaduke Rawdon, of York,” 
published by the Camden Society, the social condition and 
internal history of our city in the 17th century, have received 
from Mr. Davies that ample and accurate illustration which no 
other editor could have so well supplied. 
Mr. Rudston Read, the Curator of British Ornithology, 
has much gratification in reporting an important addition to 
the Museum by the formation of a Collection of British 
Mammalia, in accordance with the wish already repeatedly 
expressed by him in his annual reports. This Collection is still 
by no means complete as regards the smaller British Quadru¬ 
peds ; but the larger and some of the rarer species have been 
obtained with unexpected readiness. The expense of its form¬ 
ation has been somewhat greater than was anticipated, but Mr. 
Read trusts that it will serve as an additional attraction to 
Members, and increase the interest taken by the public in the 
Museum. The chief additional outlay has been occasioned by 
