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public-house at the corner of St. Leonard’s-place. The Council 
were desirous not to part with the control of the ground for 
the reasons stated; but after ascertaining that the Crown was 
prepared to sell the fee simple of the land on reasonable terms, 
that the object of the Committee was to promote and develope 
art and industry in the City of York, and that the York 
Corporation were prepared to effect a great public improvement, 
your Council felt bound to entertain the proposal with favour. 
Your Council have offered to the Committee a lease of such 
portion of the ground as they require on terms which they 
trust will not be found disadvantageous to the interests of the 
Yorkshire Philosophical Society. These terms, your Council 
understand, have been accepted by the Committee, but at 
present no official sanction on the part of the Committee has 
been received. Before closing this part of the Report, the 
Council congratulate the Members on the completion of the 
new lodge and entrance to the grounds of the Museum. The 
total cost of the lodge has not yet been ascertained, but the 
Council anticipate that there will be a balance of upwards of 
£500 to be provided (in addition to the £650 already sub¬ 
scribed), which they hope will be subscribed, and that the 
ordinary income of the Society will not be drawn upon for any 
portion of the amount required for this improvement. 
The additions made to the Antiquarian Departments of the 
Museum during the past year have been large and important. 
The chief accession has been the collection of British and 
Roman antiquities formed by the late Mr. Charles Monkman, 
of Malton, which has been purchased from his widow. The 
British portion of it consists of a very large number of flint 
and stone instruments and weapons, discovered on the Yorkshire 
"Wolds. They exhibit an almost endless variety of shape and 
manufacturing skill, and are peculiarly valuable to this Museum, 
inasmuch as this branch of archaeology was almost entirely 
unrepresented in it. Mr. Monkman’s Roman antiquities were 
procured from York during the recent excavations. They 
consist chiefly of pottery, with the exception of two gold pins 
and a few more trifling objects from the station at Malton, and 
