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REPORT OF THE 
further sum of £27 7s. 6cl. lias "been spent upon new Geological 
cases required by the Curator of that Department for the 
Yorkshire Doom; and a sum of £107 4s. 9d. has been laid out 
in improvements to the Hospitium. The amount of £64 5s. 6d. 
has been expended by the Council in the purchase of Doman 
and other Antiquities. 
The total expenditure on the New Lodge and the Approaches 
has amounted to £1353 19s. 3d., whilst the various donations 
which have been received, amount to £693 17s., leaving a 
balance of £660 2s. 3d. to be provided for. The large sum . 
received in donations is an evidence of the great interest that 
the public have taken in this improvement, which has been 
the means of securing a handsome approach to the grounds of 
the Society. The Council do not propose to close the Building 
Account for the present, but to forward a copy of it to each 
Member, with the names of the donors and their subscriptions, 
in the hope that farther donations may be received, sufficient 
to clear off the greater part, if not the whole, of the balance, 
so that no portion of it may be charged upon the income of 
the Society. 
It will be in the recollection of the Members, that at the 
last Annual Meeting, reference was made to a negociation then 
pending between the Committee of the Yorkshire Fine Art 
and Industrial Exhibition and the Society for obtaining 
possession in fee of the land and premises belonging to the 
Society (part of the Manor Shore Estate), and leasehold for 
years of the Crown. During the past year, the Council have 
agreed, at the request of the Fine Art Committee, to become 
the Grantees of the fee simple of this property for the sum of 
£4000, paid to the Crown Deceivers by the Committee, with 
the object of obtaining from the Society, as Grantees, a lease 
for a long term of years of the greater portion of the land, for 
the purpose of erecting thereon a building suitable for the 
exhibition of works of Art and Industry. It is part of the 
scheme, that the Bird-in-Hand Inn, situate in Bootham, the 
property of the York Corporation, shall be pulled down to 
make an approach to the Fine Ait Museum when completed, 
and although the Trustees of the Society, in obtaining posses- 
