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REPORT OF THE 
Museum. By such purchases and gifts the collection of Eoman 
Antiquities in the York Museum, which has been for a long 
time unmatched in England, is able to give a better idea of the 
importance of the capital of Eoman Britain to the scholars 
and antiquaries of other countries. 
During the past year many Danish Antiquities in hone, 
glass, jet and amber, have been brought to the Museum 
together with a quantity of fragments of horns of the red deer 
and reindeer of a very large size. These remains illustrate 
the history of York during the two centuries which precede 
the Norman Conquest, when the City was under the rule of a 
series of Danish Princes subordinated to the rulers of the 
Heptarchy. 
The Curator may mention that during the past few weeks 
some excavations at the Blind School have revealed the founda¬ 
tions of the walls on the south side of the Choir of St. Mary’s 
Abbey, and there is every reason to believe that, as the work 
advances, fresh discoveries of a novel and remarkable character 
may be made. 
Mineralogy. —The arrangement and re-lahelling of the 
rest of the minerals has been completed; so that now all the 
Calcium, Strontium, Barium, and Magnesium minerals, toge¬ 
ther with the remainder of the Aluminium minerals, the 
compounds of the heavy Metals, the Hydrocarbons, &c., have 
been carefully gone through. Specific labels have been intro¬ 
duced in addition to the labels attached to individual specimens. 
The large specimens have been removed from the upper part of 
the case and placed in a glazed box beneath. 
A kind of exchange has been made with the British 
Museum, whereby in consideration of our giving two crystals 
of Hcematite (Scalenohedra capped with rhombohedron) we 
have received nearly 60 specimens, the new species being 
Stephanite, Pyrostnalite, Gigantolite, and Fahliinite, &c,, together 
with several pseudomorphs. Mr. J. F. Walker has also 
presented the Society with some specimens of South African 
Catseye^ Hduyn, Zircon, Enxenite, &c. 
In consequence of the weeding out of some inferior specimens, 
