Vlll. 
REPORT OF THE 
The Council congratulate the members on the more favourable 
state of the Finances of the Society, and the Report will now 
deal with the various Scientific Departments. 
The members need not be reminded that a debt of £2,900 
still remains to be satisfied by a large annual payment for the 
next twenty years to the Yorkshire Insurance Company, and 
that in the near future additional rooms will be required to 
accommodate the rapidly growing collec tions. 
Geology. —The Honorary Curator of Geology reports that 
during the past year the fossils of the Middle and Lower Lias 
of Yorkshire, contained in the collection, have been re-arranged 
in Zones. It is very important that the range of fossils in the 
Lias Zones of Yorkshire should be carefully determined, so 
that they can be compared with the Lias in other localities. 
Surgeon-Colonel Donaldson has kindly presented a block of 
Middle Lias which he found at Saltburn; it contains JEgoceras 
capricornum and an associated Rhynckonella. 
The Honorary Curator has obtained for the Museum a series 
of Micro Brachiopoda by washing the marl from the Inferior 
Oolite of Dundry. 
The Ehves Tertiary collection has been placed in drawers, so 
that now it is readily available for study. 
Geological specimens, from the Muschelkalk and Jurassic 
rocks of Wurtemberg, have been presented by Herr Dr Pfarrer 
Engel. 
A small series of fossils, from the Spilsby beds of Lincolnshire 
has been presented by Cyril Ladds; and fossils from the 
Eocene formation of France by Mrs. Fielden Thorp. 
Antiquarian Department.— The progress of the Anti¬ 
quarian Department in the Museum, during the past year, has 
been uniform and satisfactory, although not marked by 
additions of extraordinary importance. Many objects of 
interest have been acquired from York and other places in the 
County of which it is the Capital. 
The chief hindrance is the rapidly increasing want of room. 
Mineralogy.— The collections have been enriched by the 
acquisition of several excellent and typical rock specimens, from 
