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REPORT OF THE 
devote more time than any previous Keeper to the scientific 
work, particularly to the re-arrangement of the Greological 
Department. 
The following Lectures have been delivered in the Theatre 
of the Museum during the past year. 
Subject. 
Ealph Thoreshy, of Leeds, and 
his Museum . 
The Great Pyramid . 
A Visit to the East in 1876 .... 
The Greeks. 
Weather Lore . 
The Sequence of Climatic fluctu¬ 
ations and on permanent cli¬ 
matic changes in the British 
Islands .. 
Name oe Lectukek. 
I Eev. Canon Eaine. 
E. A. Pkoctor, B.A., F.E.A.S. 
Eev. F. Lawrence, B. A. 
J. W. Barry, Esq., B. A., Oxon. 
Eev. a. Shadwell, M.A. 
I Eev. a. Shadwell, M, A. 
During the present session the lectures have been discon¬ 
tinued. The great labours entailed in re-arranging many 
departments of the Museum have prevented your honorary 
officers from devoting further time for the delivering of 
lectures, whilst the many claims upon the income of the 
Society have compelled your Council to decline the usual 
grants to scientific experts, for lectures in the York Museum. 
The following Members of Council retire by rotation, and 
are ineligible for re-election during the present year: W. 
Matterson, Esq., M. D., The Eev. George Eowe, Tempest 
Anderson, Esq., M. D., and Joseph Wilkinson, Esq. 
The Council recommend for election: W. C. Anderson, Esq., 
W. Atkinson, Esq., The Eev. T. B. B. Eerris, The Eev. G. H. 
Hewison. 
They recommend also the following additions to the list of 
Honorary Members : Professor Oswald Heer, of the University 
of Zuiich, E. G. S., Lond., author of the Primaeval World 
of Switzerland. Professor Heer is specially distinguished for 
the knowledge which he possesses of Fossil Botany, having 
described the Plant remains from the Miocene beds of Bovey 
