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are a valuable addition to tbe treasures that the Museum 
already possesses. The Society is much indebted to Mr. 
Walker, of Malton, a member of a family to which it is 
already under great obligations, for depositing under its charge 
an inscribed stone discovered at Malton about the beginning 
of the present century. It is well known to antiquarians, and 
records the existence in that place of a goldsmith’s shop, over 
whose door it was probably placed originally. The excavations 
for the new railway station at York have been going on during 
the greater part of the past year, and have yielded to the 
Museum some very remarkable curiosities. Among these are two 
inscriptions, one a small altar dedicated to the Grenius of the 
Place, the other a monumental headstone or cippus to a young 
person of the name of Hyllus. These are noticed in another 
part of this Eeport, together with a most curious ossuarium of 
lead with an inscription upon it. Another discovery of the 
first importance has been that of the hair of a young Eoman 
lady, in a very excellent state of preservation. In addition to 
these curiosities, there have been brought to the Museum from 
the same source, a small stone coffin of a child, a large brick 
tomb, which will be re-erected in the Hospitium, and four lead 
coffins of different dimensions. The Curators propose to exhibit 
side by side in the Hospitium a number of Eoman tombs to 
illustrate the different modes "of sepulture which prevailed in 
Eburacum. Mr. Greenwell, the Ciu’ator of British and Saxon 
Antiquities, has arranged, in the com’se of the past year, a 
number of the curiosities from Mr. Monkman’s collection. The 
space, however, that has been provided for them is inadequate, 
and it will be necessary to ask the Council to proHde cases in 
which the whole of these valuable evidences of early life and 
manners can be properly shown. 
The Curator of Greology reports that considerable progress 
has been made in the arrangement of the geological collection 
in the Yorkshire Eooms; that a large number of specimens 
have been added to the Speeton Clay and Kirkdale Cave 
series. The magnificent collection of Samian teeth, &c., 
which were piu’chased from Mr. Bainbridge many years ago. 
