REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YOEKSHIEE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
Feb. 4th, 1868. 
In their Eeport for the past year, the Council of the York¬ 
shire Philosophical Society have not to announce any very 
important additions to the Collections, or any such financial 
prosperity as that which characterised the year 1866. They 
are, nevertheless, able to state with much satisfaction both that 
the Museum has continued, from time to time, to receive con¬ 
tributions of objects of interest, and that the general prosperity 
of the Society has been maintained. 
The Curator of Antiquities reports that no considerable 
additions have been made to the Antiquarian Department of 
the Museum during the last year. By exchange of duplicates, 
specimens of the Eoman As, in its original and reduced size, 
as well as of its fractional parts, have been added to the 
Society’s Cabinet, supplying a deficiency in the series of Eoman 
Coins. No important discovery of Antiquities has occurred in 
York itself; but Archseological researches have been carried 
on, in other parts of the County, with valuable results. The 
Eev. Canon Dreenwell has continued his exploration of the 
tumuli on the Yorkshire Wolds, by which he is gradually 
accumulating a body of facts respecting their primitive inhabi¬ 
tants, which will throw a clear light on a period of history 
hitherto entirely dark and given up to vague conjecture. The 
excavations at Castle Dykes, between Eipon and North Stain- 
ley, have ascertained their character, which had previously been 
doubtful. Fragments of pottery and painted stucco, a tessel¬ 
lated pavement, and the pillars of a hypocaust, prove that it 
was a Eoman military post, though not connected, as far as it 
