COUNCIL FOR 3 873. 
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ness by undertaking tlie office of Curator of this department of 
the Society’s collections. 
In medioeval antiquities few additions have been made to 
what the Society already possesses. A couple of silver rings 
have been purchased at Eipon, and two bronze seals have been 
presented. 
Through the kindness of Mr. J. F. Walker, the Museum 
has acquired several interesting specimens of early English 
pottery. The collection of ware of this kind which the Society 
has preserved is so large and fine that every exertion must be 
made to enlarge and continue it to a still later period. 
In the Department of the Library several additions of 
importance have been made during the year. Among these 
are the following valuable works: Cave’s Original Sketches, 
2 vols., folio, bequeathed by the late Bawlins Could, Esq., and 
presented by his Executors; Maclaiichlan’s Survey of the 
Eastern Branch of the Watling Street, 1 voL, 8vo., with 
illustrative plates, I voL, folio, presented by the Duke of 
Northumberland; Muratori, L. A., Novus Thesaurus Yeterum 
Inscriptionum, 4 vols., folio, presented by J. F. Walker, Esq.; 
The Antiseptic System, I voL, 8vo., by A. E. Sansom, M. D., 
presented by the Author; The seventh volume of Hubner’s 
Corpus Inscriptionum, comprising the Inscriptiones Britamiice 
Latince (fol. Berolini, 1873), purchased. 
The Curator of the Ornithological Department reports that 
the collection of British Birds is in a perfect state of preserva¬ 
tion, four common species from Mr. Graham having replaced 
those that had exhibited decay. 
Eeport of the Meteorological Department, 1873.—The 
temperature at York for the year 1873 was 46°.95, being six- 
tenths of a degree below a mean of forty years. Professor 
Phillips in his Essay on the climate of York, gives the mean 
temperature of twenty-five years, from 1800 to 1825, as 
observed by his friend Mr. Jonathan Gray, as 48” and two- 
tenths, or six-tenths of a degree above the mean of the forty 
