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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR Igi2. 
Norman work, this was one of the piers of the arcade of the 
North Transept ; and the second apse has been paved with 
cobbles and old pieces of ashlar, under this pavement Mr. 
Brook has re-interred the remains of a monk found in an oak 
coffin at the building of the new Lecture Theatre, and in digg¬ 
ing the grave for this purpose, in the centre apse, found two 
more skeletons of the monks—also two additional burials were 
found, undisturbed, burials of presumably the fourteenth cen¬ 
tury—this apse Mr. Brook trusts will be looked upon as sacred 
to the memory of those good and faithful men to whom we are 
indebted for the glorious buildings the ruins of which are the 
proud possession of the Philosophical Society. Above these 
five graves he has placed two ledger stones found during the 
various excavations. Mr. Brook is now excavating the small 
portion of East and North Cloister iMleys and has found the 
old wall of good ashlar running East and West and North and 
South,—this he has raised to a height of several courses to act 
as a retaining wall for the great mound of earth adjoining the 
Museum Lecture Theatre. The cloister alleys will be 
excavated to the old floor levels—this work is at the present 
time proceeding. 
Mr. Brook, during the removal of the ancient fragments from 
the old Hospitium lower hall, gave on ioth June, 1912, 
£10 ns. od. towards the cost of removal ; and later on the 14th 
October, £20 os. od. towards the expenses of setting up the 
fragments of reredos, &c., under the new Lecture Theatre. 
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Botany.— The specimens in the Herbarium are in good 
condition. The additions during the year (19:1:2) will be found 
on page xxxiv. 
Entomology.— No additions of note have been made to this 
Section during the past year. The collections of the various 
orders have been kept in good condition. 
Geology. —The collections bequeathed to the Society by 
the late Sir Charles Strickland have been moved to the 
Museum, and are at present housed in the Students' Room. 
