COUNCIL FOR 1871. 11 
Society of York Florists to hold a Flower Show in the grounds 
of the Mnsenm. 
This act on the part of the Council which necessitated the 
usual suspension of the privileges of the Members during the 
afternoon of the day on which the Show was held, was grate¬ 
fully acknowledged by the Committee of the York Florists, and 
was the means of affording great pleasure to a large number of 
persons, many of them members of this Society. 
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The holding of a Converzatione in the rooms of the Museum 
during some evening of the Winter Session has on more than 
one occasion received the consideration of the Council. The 
custom is one generally observed by Scientific Societies, and in 
the course of the past year the Council referred the matter to 
a sub-Committee. The Committee reported that the rooms of 
the Museum were not spacious enough to accommodate the 
large number of persons who, in all probability, would attend, 
and for the present the further consideration of the matter has 
been postponed. 
Agreeably to a Eesolution of the Monthly Meeting of the 
4th October, 1870, the Council considered the desirableness of 
publishing a selection of the communications made to the 
Monthly Meetings. It appeared to them that the object of 
making these communications more extensively known would 
be obtained by publishing in a separate form, the Appendix 
to the Annual Report, continuing such Papers as should appear 
to be of sufficient interest for circulation among scientific 
societies and for sale to the public. This resolution has been 
carried out in regard to the Report for 1870. 
The Curator of Antiquities reports:—-The Antiquarian De¬ 
partment of the Museum has received few additions during the 
past year. The most remarkable of these is a Roman Altar 
found in excavating for the foundation of a house in Park- 
place, near Monk Bridge, and presented by William Thompson, 
Esq. It was dedicated by Marcus Rustius Massa to the Deee 
Matres, and is of coarse gritstone. From William Webster, 
Esq., have been received some valuable electrotypes of the Seals 
of the Bishops of Durham, and others, and from Admiral 
Hotham, English Silver Coins of Edward YI., Charles I. and 
II., and William and Mary. 
