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The collection of Yorkshire fossils and rocks has also been 
increased by numerous specimens collected by the Keeper of 
the Museum. These include species and rock-specimens from 
the Coral Bag of Thornton, the Millepore of South Cave and 
of Whitwell, the Lower Calcareous grit of Castle Howard, the 
Chalk of Hessle, and the Upper Calcareous grit of Pickering. 
A valuable and interesting collection of remains from Kent’s 
Cavern has been presented by Lord Haldon (proprietor of the 
Cavern) and the British Association. 
The fossils in the Tertiary room have been for the most part 
re-arranged and re-labelled. The Jurassic specimens in the 
Saurian room have been completely re-arranged stratigraphically, 
A large number of explanatory labels conveying information 
in a popular form has been placed in various parts of the 
collection. 
In the Antiquarian Department the chief work of the year 
has been the arranging of the Greorge Eobinson Collection of 
Antiquities. The Irish flint and stone implements have found 
a home near the English series, whilst many objects of bronze 
and iron from the same country have been placed in a new case 
which the donors very considerately made a portion of their 
gift. To make room for the Irish flint and stone, the Palaeolithic 
implements and many prehistoric remains from other countries 
have been removed to a case which formerly contained the 
greater portion of the Osborne Collection of Shells; wdiilst the 
Shells, in their turn, are now in a handsome case, for which the 
Members of the Society are indebted to the kindness of their 
old friend, Mr. William Eeed. The armour belonging to the 
Greorge Eobinson Collection is now arranged on two large 
shields or scutcheons in the Theatre, to which it has ahvays 
been appended. 
The Curator, therefore, may congratulate the Society on the 
reception and exhibition of a large and varied collection of 
objects without any tax upon its resoiu’ces. 
The chief acquisitions during the year are as follows:— 
A large number of carvings in limestone and marble, found 
under the Vicarage House of St. Michael-le-Belfrey, and very 
