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and the whole will^ undoubtedly, form a most pleasing addition 
to the attractions of the Grounds. For this the Society will he 
indebted chiefly to the energy of Mr. Baines, who has not only 
superintended the whole of the work, but has already obtained 
a great part of the money to pay for it, and confidently expects 
to have the whole sum completed very shortly. The best 
thanks of the Society are also due to those gentlemen who have 
so liberally furnished Mr. Baines with the funds necessary to 
carry out his plans, and especially to the Hon. and Very Kev. 
the Dean for his munificent present of the sum of £40, the 
whole purchase money of the house, the materials of which 
constitute the greater part of the new structure. 
The most important addition to the Library during the past 
year consists of a Second Part of the Facsimiles of Egyptian 
Papyri, presented to the Society by the Trustees of the British 
Museum. The Society has also received from Lord Londes- 
borough a copy of the Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue 
of a Collection of Silver Plate,” formed by the late Lord 
Londeshorough, and from Mr. Burdekin, of Parliament Street, 
a series of the Yorh Courant Newspaper, for twenty-eight years, 
from 1773 to 1800. The Curator of the Library hopes, now 
that additional book cases have been provided, to efiect the 
rearrangement of the Library in such a manner as to leave 
room for any additions which are likely to he made for several 
years to come. He wishes also to call the attention of the 
Council to the very imperfect state of the Library, which, in 
many respects, is hardly worthy of an Institution holding the 
position of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. On several 
Sciences, such, for example, as Chemistry, Physics, Mineralogy, 
and Botany, there is not a single standard modern work in the 
Collection, and even in those branches of Natural History to 
which the Museum is more especially devoted, such as Geology 
and Zoology, the Library is very imperfect. 
From the Report of the Curator of Antiquities it appears 
that, among the Antiquarian discoveries in York during the 
past year, the most remarkable is that of a Sepulchral Tablet, 
containing a Latin Inscription in hexameter verse, by Q. Corel- 
lius Fortis, on his daughter Corellia Optata. Metrical Inscrip- 
