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REPORT OF THE 
in illustrating the geology of Yorkshire could not he displayed, 
the Council felt hound at once to remove this defect. A fuidher 
sum of £54 Os. 2d. has been paid for specimens of Eoman and 
mediaeval antiquity, chiefly found in the course of the excava¬ 
tions for the new railway station. A still larger sum has been 
paid for the Monkman collection of antiquities. In the early 
part of the year the Council were informed that the representa¬ 
tives of the late Mr. Monkman, of Malton, were about to offer 
these specimens for sale. This collection consisted principally of 
large numbers of Eoman and British objects of antiquity 
derived from York and the neighbouring Wolds. The Coimcil 
resolved, if possible, to prevent the dispersion of this valuable 
collection and to secure it for the Museum, if this could he 
done on reasonable terms. Ultimately the representatives 
of Mr. Monkman agreed to accept £150, a not excessive sum 
considering the large number and rarity of the specimens, and 
their importance to the student of local archaeology. The 
increase of income over the previous year arises chiefly from a 
sum of £79 Is., being the increase in subscriptions over those 
paid in 1874, and a further sum of £30 received for duplicate 
objects of antiquity sold to other local museums. The amount 
for admissions received at the lodge for the past year was 
£286 6s. 6d., being £9 Is. less than the sum received for 1874. 
The Members will probably be aware that for some time 
past negotiations have been carried on between the Committee 
appointed to promote a Fine Ail and Industrial Exhibition in 
York and the Council of this Society, with a \iew to secure, on 
behalf of the Committee, a site for a permanent exhibition 
building. The Council obtained some time ago from the 
Crown a lease of the ground long known as Bearpark’s Garden, 
with the object of preserving it as an open space to be added to 
the grounds of the Museum whenever the income of the Society 
justified such a com’se. The Committee have represented to 
the Council that this space afPords the best site near the City of 
York available for their puiqDose, and that the York Corporation 
have agreed to co-operate with them, provided theii’ scheme 
can be carried out, in effecting a great improvement in the 
approach to their building by the removal of the Bii-d-in-Hand 
