COUNCIL FOE. 1865. 
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Antiquity was accompanied by a considerable number of books 
upon antiquarian and topographical subjects, including the 
British Topography, the Antiquarian Repertory, Davies’ 
British Druids and Celtic Researches, Dough’s Catalogue of 
Books on British Topography, and Battley’s Opera Posthuma. 
The Council have much pleasure in drawing attention to the 
publication of the Record of Zoological Literature, which is not 
only of importance as constituting an era in the study of 
Zoology in this county, but is also of special interest to the 
Members of our Society, the portion relating to Arachnida 
Myriopoda, and Insects, having been written by the Keeper 
of our Museum, Mr. Dallas. 
The Council of the Zoological Society presented to the Library 
a complete set of their Transactions, from the second volume 
inclusive, containing a number of the most important Memoirs 
on Zoology and Comparative Anatomy which have been 
published in this country. For this valuable donation the 
Society are indebted to Mr. Dallas, the donation having been 
made at his request, in acknowledgment of an elaborate paper 
written by him, which appeared in the proceedings of the 
Zoological Society, on the plumage of the Dinornis. 
The sale of the volume of papers, by the Rev. John Kenrick, 
published in 1864, has produced about £10, and this sum, 
added to the balance of subscribers’ copies not paid for when 
the last account was closed, makes a total of about £22 available 
for the purposes of the Library. By Mr. Kenrick’s desire, 
D’Orbigny’s Paleontologie Francaise,” a large and important 
work on the Fossils of France, costing nearly £19, has been 
ordered. 
The Curator of Meteorological Instruments reports as 
follows:—“ The mean temperature of York for the last ten 
years is 47'8 of Fahrenheit. This number is pretty exactly 
the result of any consecutive series of ten years. The mean tempe¬ 
rature of York for the year 1865 is 49*07, nearly two degrees 
above a mean. In the last thirty-five years, 1834 was the year 
of highest temperature, 50*2. 1855, that of the lowest, 44*4, 
making a range of 5*8 degrees. The highest temperatoe of 
the year 1865 was 81” in July. The lowest 19” in February, 
