COUNCIL FOR 1887. 
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some of the Members, whose readiness and kind assistance he 
most gratefully acknowledges. 
The Curator hopes to obtain the help of the Members and 
Friends of the Society, in the course of the present year, for a 
far more serious and important undertaking. The great 
collection of Prehistoric and Anglian Antiquities, which has 
been formed at Driffield, will probably be disposed of, and the 
Curator expresses his most earnest hope, that as large a portion 
of that wonderful Museum as can possibly be secured, may find 
a home within these walls. It will be the last chance that the 
Yorkshire Philosophical Society will have of securing what is 
called a great Yorkshire Barrow collection. - The acquisition of 
the Anglian Antiquities is quite, if not more, necessary, as there 
are among them numerous objects from two famous Tumuli at 
Driffield, the rest of which are already in our Museum. The 
collection at Driffield also contains by far the finest known 
gathering of Fossils from the Yorkshire chalk, exhibiting many 
forms which were previously unknown in our cretaceous rocks. 
A list of ancient Charters in possession of the Society will be 
given afterwards. 
Mineralogy —No changes have been made in the Mineral 
collection during the past year beyond the introduction of a few 
additional specimens. Major Cochrane, Lord Teignmouth, and 
Miss Dillon, have each presented specimens, and some of these 
are particularly good. 
Hitherto, it has not been found possible to find space for 
exhibiting a rock collection as recommended last year. It is 
suggested that if hanging cases were provided for the new 
gallery it might be found convenient to transfer the shells to 
to these. The space thus vacated by the recent shells could 
be utilized for the rock collection. 
The Honorary Curator has further to report that a teaching 
collection of Minerals, containing over 1,200 specimens, has 
been got together and is now available for the use of Students. 
Botany —The English and Foreign Herbaria are in a good 
state of preservation. 
Mr. Hailstone, to whom the Society is chiefly indebted for its 
excellent British Herbarium, has presented us with a manuscript 
Index of the list and habitats of the plants which it contains. 
