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REPORT OF THE 
The arrangements in respect of the Greological collection 
presented by William Eeed, Esq., have cost the Society <£264 
19s. 5d. The presentation of tliis extensive and valuable 
series rendered it a work of absolute necessity to alter and 
re-arrange the whole of the Society’s collections in the large 
Greological room and the Foreign Bird room. 
A further sum of £263 11s. lOd. has been expended in the 
enclosure and laying out of the additional ground adjacent to 
Marygate, and now forming part of the groimds of the Society. 
This work has been carried out with great care and skill 
under the direct superintendence of your honoured Vice- 
President, William Henry Eudston Eead, Esq., to whom the 
Society is so largely indebted for many valuable donations and 
for the kind interest he continues to take in the success of the 
Society which he has done so much to promote. 
The other items of expenditure are of so ordinary a character 
as to require no special notice, but will be found detailed in the 
Treasurer’s balance sheet. 
The Council will now follow the usual custom, and notice in 
detail the various scientific departments of the Institution. 
Department of Antiquities.—The past year has witnessed 
considerable improvement in the Antiquarian departments, and 
large additions have been made to the Collections which the 
Society already possessed. 
The chief event in the year has been the completion and 
opening of the Ethnological and Pre-historic room in the upper 
part of the Museum Buildings. The work of re-arrangement has 
been going on for some time, and has necessitated very great 
labour and considerable expense. The members will now be able 
to see for the first time many interesting objects which have been 
hitherto concealed in drawers for want of space. The Saxon, 
Danish and Pre-historic antiquities in this room are under the 
charge of Mr. Grreenwell, who has kindly added very consider¬ 
ably to their number. An ancient Saxon biuial ground has 
also been discovered in the vicinity of York, in which the ashes 
of the dead, who had been burnt on the fimeral pile, were 
deposited in urns. Many of these urns, which were in a state 
