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appear sometimes to have been committed to the earth without 
any sepulchral covering, and the same ground served for de- 
positing the rubbish of demolished houses, of which consider¬ 
able remains have been found. 
The Upper Boom of the Hospitium has been renovated, and 
new cases have been added to display the smaller objects of 
antiquity more advantageously, or to provide room for the 
numerous additions which the Museum has received. The 
publication of a new edition of the Catalogue, which will take 
place in the Spring, will afford an opportunity of bringing it 
into harmony with the actual state of the collection. 
The Antiquarian Department of the Library has received a 
very valuable addition in the seventh volume of the Inscriptiones 
LatincB, edited by Dr. Hiibner of Berlin. It is wholly devoted 
to the inscriptions of Britain, among which those of Eburacum 
occupy a conspicuous place. It is a work of great learning and 
exliaustive research. The author acknowledges the industry and 
judgment with which the antiquities have been arranged and 
explained ; at the same time he makes suggestions and supplies 
information which will be useful in the new edition of the 
Catalogue. 
The Cabinet of Coins has received some additions dining the 
year, derived chiefly from the excavations for the Bailway 
Station. The most important are a beautiful aureus of 
Constantins II., found in Walmgate ; a half-noble of Edward 
IV., minted in York, from the same street; and a fine double 
sovereign of Elizabeth. 
The small collection of Anglo-Saxon remains deposited in 
the Museum has been considerably augmented during the past 
year by the munificence of the Bev. ’William Grreenwell 
of Durham. That gentlemen has kindly presented to the 
Society all the objects belonging to the Anglo-Saxon period 
which he has acquired in YorkshBe, among which are the 
remarkable contents of the grave mound at Uncleby which 
were disinterred several years ago. The importance of this 
gift has induced the Council to set apart a distinct room for the 
British, Saxon, and Danish antiquities which the Society 
possesses; and Mr. Creenwell has added to his previous kind- 
