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REPORT OF THE 
historic era, numerous specimens of Roman, Etruscan, and 
English pottery; some forty matrices of foreign seals prior to 
the sixteenth century; many original impressions of Royal 
seals of England; and a very large quantity of casts and 
impressions of the same kind. 
The choicest part of Mr. Hailstone’s gift is a noble j)air 
of Roman howls of bronze, found at Finningley, near Don¬ 
caster, which would be an ornament to Museums far more 
important than our&. 
3. The last and most conspicuous place in the list of 
accessions must be occupied by the collection of antiquities 
made by the late Mr. Greorge Alderson Robinson, of Reeth, 
which has been most generously presented to us by his representa¬ 
tives. The kernel of this collection is a very large assemblage 
of pre-historic antiquities from Ireland, which was purchased at 
Edinburgh in 1877. Among them are two large bronze caul¬ 
drons of bronze, and a very fine trumpet of the same material. 
The implements in flint and stone are exceedingly numerous. 
Mr. Robinson also acquired by purchase the antiquities gathered 
together by the late Mr. Edward Wood, of Richmond, whose 
geological treasures we already possess through the kindness 
of our esteemed Y.P., Mr. Wm. Reed. He bought also many 
pre-historic remains from Denmark, America, and other 
countries, all of which have come to us. Around these there 
is a wide fringe of miscellaneous objects, illustrative, many of 
them, of the industries pursued in the Richmondshire Dales. 
We have acquired also from the same generous donors numerous 
specimens of weapons and armoiu’, in which the Museum w^as 
singularly deficient. It must also be mentioned that the 
curiosities are accompanied by the cases which contained them, 
and by this thoughtful kindness the resom’ces of the Museum 
will not be materially taxed to provide additional accommoda¬ 
tion. The Society has every reason to congratulate itself on 
the very great and valuable additions which have been made 
to the Department of Antiquities during the past year. 
The Curator of British Ornithology has to report the 
capture of one very rare visitant to our shores. The American 
