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REPORT OP THE 
Geology. —The past year has been marked by some very 
important additions; the Donors being :—Mr, W. Reed, F.G.S. 
(Honorary Curator of Geology), Mr. J. F. Walker, M.A., Lord 
Teignmouth, Captain Barstow, and the Yorkshire Geological 
and Polytechnic Society (through Mr. J. W. Davis of Chevin- 
edge, Halifax). 
Amongst these additions, the most noteworthy are two 
collections, presented by Mr. W. Reed, one consisting of over 
2,000 specimens from the Inferior Oolite of Dorset and Somerset, 
the other of remains from the Yoredale Rocks of Wensleydale; 
the latter containing 43 figured specimens. The gallery erected 
by the Honorary Curator in the ‘‘ Tertiary ” room was completed 
this year, and the splendid collection of Palaeozoic fossils, 
previously put away in drawers, has been transferred to it. 
This Society is to be congratulated on having a thoroughly 
representative general series of Palaeozoic fossils exhibited, while 
the collection of Yoredale remains, referred to above, together 
with a small series of Millstone Grit fossils, incorporated this 
year, fill up the gap in our Yorkshire Carboniferous collection. 
The Inferior Oolite series has been incorporated into the general 
collection ; most of the fossils in this series are in excellent 
preservation, and are not only intrinsically valuable, but are 
interesting for comparison with the homotaxial Yorkshire 
remains. 
Antiquities —Although the soil of York has not yielded 
many antiquities during the past year, the collections in the 
Museum and Hospitium have been considerably improved. 
Various additions have been made to the number of specimens 
of ancient pottery, and many of these have been displayed to 
great advantage on the walls and shelves of the Hospitium. 
Numerous examples of ancient wood car\dng, which the 
Curator has been gathering together for some years, have been 
exhibited during the year in the Ethnological Room. The 
Society has also acquired a very nice collectionuf ancient stained 
glass, of which it previously possessed little or nothing. This 
was offered to the Society for a certain sum of money by a 
gentleman resident at Wakefield, but, as our finances did not 
reasonably permit such an outlay, the Curator has fortimately 
been able to secure the Collection through the contributions of 
