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now form an important addition for the exhibition of the 
Saurian, Greological, and Natural History collections. In his 
latter years, Mr. Read undertook the supervision of the grounds 
which surround our Museum, and these owe much of their 
beauty to his good taste and fostering care. In him the Society 
has lost a good friend and benefactor. 
Mr. William Atkinson, an eminent Architect of this city, was 
a member of our Council at the time of his death, and had 
kindly undertaken to supervise the erection of the new gallery, 
to he erected in the Tertiary Room, by the great liberality and 
kindness of our Yice-President, Mr. W. Reed. During the 
time of his membership, and especially within the last three 
years of his life, when he was actively engaged as one of our 
Council, Mr. Atkinson was always ready to render all the aid 
he could in advising your Executive, in all matters relating to 
any improvements or alterations rendered necessary in our 
Museum, and his services, in this respect, were the means on 
more than one occasion, of saving our Society considerable cost. 
The name of Mr. Thomas Ellis, a Medical Practitioner of this 
city, and who died at an advanced age, in the course of last 
3 ^ear, will he chiefly remembered by his very liberal donation 
a few years ago, of the Iron Dates, which are so great an 
ornament to the entrance Lodge at Lendal. Mr. Ellis, during 
his long life, had been a resident in this city. He was formerly 
the resident Medical Officer of the County Asylum, an office 
from which he retired many years ago, and during the declining 
years of his life, he was ever ready to aid the Public Institutions 
of the City, especially those which have for their object the 
alleviation of human suffering. 
The Council recommend the following gentlemen for election 
as Honorary Members of the Society :— 
Major General Nicolaus Yon Kokscharow, President of the 
Mineralogical Society of St. Petersburg. 
Dr. Alfred Nathorst, State Geologist, and a Member of the 
Geological survey of Sweden, Stockholm, and— 
Tempest Anderson, Esquire, M.D., B.Sc., Fellow of 
University College, London, as a Yice-President, in the 
room of the late W. H. Rudston-Read, Esquire. 
