COUNCIL FOR 1882 . 
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The Upper and Middle Oolites of Yorkshire have been 
re-arranged in the Saurian Koom, also the Yorkshire Chalk, 
the recent gifts being added. 
Mr. H. Keeping, of the Cambridge Museum, has kindly 
devoted a fortnight to a careful revision of our collection of 
Oligocene and Eocene fossils, arranging the species in their 
proper zones. 
The Curator of Antiquities reports a large accession to 
the curiosities under his charge, so large, indeed, that in no 
preceding year have so many objects of interest found their 
way into this Department of the Museum. 
No Roman inscription indeed has been found during the 
year, and no sculptured stone of any importance ; but, to 
represent the period of the Imperial occupation of Britain, we 
have fifteen urns acquired during the year ; and two tombs of 
tiles discovered on Bishophill, in one of which was a bracelet 
made of gold and silver wires. To the collection of old English 
pottery and glass more than fifty additions have been made, 
and in every part of the Antiquarian stores fresh objects of 
interest may be seen, which will be enumerated either in the 
Catalogue of Antiquities, or in the Report for the j^ear. 
Special allusion must be made to three conspicuous additions 
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to our treasures. 
1. A large number of silver pennies of Edward the 
Confessor and William the Conqueror, discovered in York last 
summer. The pennies of Edward, which are very numerous, 
are remarkable for being productions of the York Mint, and in 
variety and excellence of workmanship bear abundant testimony 
to the importance of York at that early period. The coins, 
speaking generally, belong to the last five or six types of the 
Confessor’s coinage and the two earliest of William the Con¬ 
queror, and furnish some most cunous additions to the 
numismatic history of those two reigns. 
2. In July last the Society received as a gift from Mr. 
Edward Hailstone, of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, an old 
friend and benefactor, a large collection of antiquities. They 
comprise some fifty stone and bronze implements of the pre- 
