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particularly valuable to us from its rickuess in the fossils of 
those geological groups in which Mr. Eeed’s original cabinets and 
the old Museum collection were most deficient, namely in the 
old Eed Sandstone, Carboniferous, and Permian formations. 
Amongst the greatest treasures for which Mr. Wood’s 
Museum has obtained world-wide celebrity are the Crinoids, 
or Sea Lilies, especially the Woodocrinu^ and the Bracliiopoda; 
and it is also of special scientific value as containing many type 
specimens. The possession of these gives to our Museum much 
importance, attracting of necessity the attention of scientific 
workers. 
In the North of England, York and Eichmond have been, 
of late years, the principal attractions for investigators of the 
past history of organic life, the latter because of the presence of 
Mr. Wood’s collection, and the former for that of Mr. William 
Eeed, as well as our own Museum. All these, by the princely 
gift of Mr. Eeed, are now united in the Society’s Museum. 
Nor must we value as an unimportant part of our 
Honorary Curator’s benefactions his untiring zeal and labour 
now devoted to the work of arranging the collections. That 
same energy and extreme carefulness, combined with 
tasteful discrimination which have left their abiding mark in 
his collection of fossils, are now employed to the great advantage 
of the Society’s Museum in the arrangement of the specimens. 
These arrangements, together with that of the other 
departments of the Museum, are now satisfactorily progressing, 
and before the next report is read in this hall we hope to possess 
a geological collection, well exhibited and arranged, second only 
in importance to the museums of the Metropolis and the 
Universities. 
The Curator of Antiquities reports:— 
The additions to the Antiquarian Department of the 
Museum during the past year have been numerous and varied. 
In Eoman curiosities York itself has yielded a fine gold ring 
set with an engraved carnelian, a bronze vessel, ten urns, and 
many smaller remains of less interest. The greatest discovery, 
however, of the year has been that in the garden of St. Mary’s 
