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REPORT OF THE 
The YarioTis items of expenditme are set forth in detail in 
the Treasurer’s Report. The total amount of the outgoings 
for the year is £1566 7s. 7d., being an excess of expenditime 
over income for the year of £62 2s. Id., leaving a balance due 
to the Treasurer of £919 3s. Id. It has been stated in previous 
Reports that the greater portion of this debt has arisen in 
consequence of the cost of the new entrance-lodge and improve¬ 
ments, and it will be seen when the Geological Department is 
treated of, that the Society has been at a very considerable 
expense in making arrangements for the display of the magnifi¬ 
cent Geological Collection recently presented to the Society by 
its respected Yice-President, W. Reed, Escp, and which is found 
to be of far greater extent than was at first anticipated. This 
collection will place our Museum in the first rank of the 
provincial museums in the country, so far as the science of 
Geology is concerned ; and in anticipation of the visit of the 
British Association to York in the year 1881, the Council have 
spared no efforts to do justice to the collection in order that it 
may be of the utmost assistance to the workers of Science and 
a credit to the City of York. 
The Honorary Curator of Geology reports that the Yorkshhe 
Collection of Fossils has been enriched by the presentation of a 
series of fossils, chiefly Ammonites, from the Lias of Whitby, 
by Mrs. Lloyd, of Lincroft Lodge, Fulford. 
Mr. J. F. Walker, F.G.S., has presented two specimens of 
Productus horridm, Sow., from Well, near Ripon. Mr. G. 
Brown, Monkgate, a very fine Ganoid Fish, Lepidotus semi- 
serratiis, Ag., from the Lias of Whitby ; and Mr. W. Horne, 
of Leyburn, a Collection of Corals, Brachiopods and Selachian 
teeth from the Carboniferous Lime-stone of Wenslejvlale. 
The General Collection has been increased by the following 
donations:— 
A series of Fossils from the lowest beds of the Upper Siliulan 
at Skellgill, above Lowood Inn, in Westmoreland, from Mr. 
W. Gray, our valued Treasimer. 
Two hundred species of Shells from the Newer Pliocene of 
Sicily, and the same number of species from the Older Pliocene 
of Tuscany; sixty species of Upper Miocene Fossils from the 
