REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
Feb. 5th, 1867. 
The Council, in presenting their Report for the year 1866, 
are able to congratulate the Members on its continued prosperity. 
The past year will he a memorable one in the annals of the 
Society as well as of the City of York. During the visit of the 
Prince and Princess of Wales to this City in August last, their 
Royal Highnesses, accompanied by the Archbishop of York 
(the President of the Society), were pleased to visit the Museum, 
and at the request of His Grace kindly allowed their names to 
he added to the list of our Patrons. 
The Fine Aid and Industrial Exhibition, by attracting a 
great concourse of people to York from all quarters, produced a 
great increase in the number of Visitors to the Museum. 
In the Museum itself the Ethnographical Room (announced 
as nearly completed in the last Report of the Council) was 
opened to the public early in the Spring of last year, and the 
Keeper of the Museum, under the valuable direction of the 
Rev. T. Myers and S. W. North, Esq., has since labelled such 
of the specimens as could he identified. The Council can only 
reiterate the wish expressed in the Report of 1865, that they 
may he enabled, by donations of dresses, weapons, ornaments, 
and other articles, to render this collection more complete. 
The past year has not brought to light any remarkable 
remains of antiquity in York or its neighbourhood. A frag¬ 
ment of a Roman Sepulchral Inscription, which had been fixed 
in the wall of All Saints Church, North Street, has been secured 
from further injury by being placed in the Museum. It had 
probably formed part of a monument, erected beside the great 
