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REPORT OF THE 
The receipts for admissions at the gate during the past j^ear 
amount to £291 Ids., being an increase of upwards of £18 
over the receipts of the preceding year. 
From the register at the gates it appears that upwards of 
6,000 persons paid for admission during the year, and 10,000 
more were admitted by witten orders from members. The 
number of visitors introduced personally by members cannot 
be ascertained with accuracy, hut probably the number is in 
excess of those admitted by payment. 
If in addition the numbers be considered who throng these 
grounds on the free da^^s of admission in Whitsun w^eek, it vill 
be seen how largely this institution ministers to the instruction 
and gratification of the public. 
In the G-eological Department several specimens have been 
presented during the past year. 
The most valuable addition to the Society’s collection in this 
department has been made by Mr. Fox, of South Cave, who at 
the request of the Eev. J. F. Blake, F. Gr. S., kindly presented 
to the Society a valuable collection of bones of extinct mammals, 
which had been discovered at various times in a marl pit at 
Bielbeck in the East Biding of this county. 
These specimens were exhibited before the Geological Section 
of the British Association at Bradford, last year, by Mr. Blake, 
and attracted much attention. 
Extensive excavations have been made during the last two 
years on the South bank of the Ouse in connection with the 
Bail way Works now in progress. 
The important discoveries there made in respect of anti¬ 
quarian remains will be specially referred to in the report of the 
Curators of that department. 
In the course of the excavations, at a considerable depth, in 
a bed of undisturbed sand and gravel, a large number of 
Boulders, apparently the remains of ice drift, were discovered. 
It was thought desirable that some of these stone blocks, 
especially such as shelved a striated siuface, should be secured 
to the Society. Through the kindness of one of oiu Members 
of Council, Mr. J. F. Walker, M. A., F. G. S., who undertook 
to make a selection, this has been accomplished, and several 
