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REPORT OP THE 
it is with gratification that they have to announce that your 
kind and liberal benefactor, Mr. Wm. Heed, the Honorary 
Curator of Greology has undertaken to build a Gallery to the 
Tertiary Hoorn without any cost to the Society, and to tenish 
the same with cases. 
The Heport will now deal with the various Scientific 
Departments of the Museum. 
Antiquarian DEPARTMENr.—The past year has not been 
an eventual one in the Antiquarian Department. A smaller 
sum than usual has been expended on Antiquities for the 
simple reason that comparatively few objects have been 
discovered. 
The collections are now so large that every fresh curiosity 
can be placed at once in its proper position to the advantage 
of its neighboui’s. 
During the year the specimens of ancient woodcarving and 
stained glass, which the Society has been collecting for some 
time, have been arranged and exhibited. They are a very 
painful evidence of the destruction that has been wrought in so 
many Parish Churches. 
Considerable additions have been made during the same 
time to the already fine collection of English pottery, which 
has been more advantageously displayed upon the walls of 
the Hospitium. 
In the course of the past year the ancient British boat 
discovered at Brigg in Lincolnshire was very kindly offered as 
a gift to the Society. It was, however, found impossible to 
accept it, as the size and weight of the vessel forbade its 
introduction into any room assigned to the Antiquarian 
department. 
The staircase and spouts of the Hospitium have been put 
into good repair, and that building is now in excellent order. 
All that is required for it is a little asphalting to keep the rain 
and flood water out of the walls at the base. 
As the last edition of the Catalogue of Antiquities is nearly 
exhausted, a new edition must be printed in the course of the 
Spring or Summer, 
