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REPORT OF THE 
together a collection of Pottery of a comjDaratively recent date, 
the work of the Northern manufacturers. 
The Coin cabinet has received a somewhat important addition 
through the kind bequest, by Miss Widdowson, of the collection 
of her late uncle, Mr. James Cook. It contains a large number 
of Poman and English coins, some of which supply deficiencies 
in our cabinet. During the year the modern English tokens 
and the foreign coins have been classified and catalogued by 
Mr. Norcliffe, who has kindly added to them a number of his 
own. 
In the course of the past year the Society has had an 
opportunity of acquiring, by purchase, two small collections of 
antiquities wdiich had been found in York, chiefiy derived from 
the recent excavations at the Eailway. It is much to be desired 
that other collectors would grant to the Society the same 
privilege. Apart from the city in which they are found, such 
objects possess a very trifiing interest, their chief value is 
in combination and comparison with others, and this can 
only be tested in a large public collection such as that in 
our Museum. It is only a few years since the position of 
Ebui’acum as the chief city in Britain was questioned on 
account of the paucity of memorials of the Pomans in our 
Museum, which were all the while in existence in private 
collections. This needless slur has been, to a great extent, taken 
away, but it would disappear entirely if amatem’s would permit 
us to acquire from their museums objects found at York of which 
we have at present no types, and they would shew the Society 
equal consideration if they refrained from standing in its way 
by purchasing objects which ought to be secured for our collec¬ 
tion as soon as they are discovered. 
The Honorary Curator of Geology reports that the re¬ 
arrangement of the Yorkshire Geological room is nearly 
completed; the Lias is being arranged in the following 
zones:— Ammonites Jiirensis^ A. Communis, A. Serpentinus, 
A. Annulatus, A. Spinatus, A. Margaritatus, A. Capricornus, 
A. Jamesoni, A. Oxynotus, A. JBucklandi, A. AnguJatus, A. 
Flanorhis, so as to correspond with the tables in Tate and 
