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mark the great progress of our collections. We are indebted 
to Mrs. Lund, the widow of Mr. John Lund, sometime of 
Scarborough and York, for the gift of her husband’s very 
extensive and valuable cabinet of coins. It extends to some 
thousands of specimens, chiefly English and Roman, and is the 
largest gift which the numismatic portion of our Curiosities has 
received for a very long series of years. From Mr. Eugene 
Bean, of the Yorkshire Bank in this City, the Society lias also 
received his choice series of Roman and other antiquities 
discovered in York, which adds largely to the t treasures 
stored already in the Hospitium. The only other accession 
which it is necessary to mention is a selection from the 
Museum of the late Mr. Thomas Bateman, of Youlgrave in 
Derbyshire, which was recently dispersed in London. The 
Society was fortunately able to purchase nearly the wdiole 
of his collection of Old English Buttery, which was gathered 
together for him in York by the late Mr. Robert Cook. It 
is needless to say how valuable to us in York such specimens 
are. Mr. Bateman also acquired numerous Roman antiquities 
disinterred in or about York, but these, together with his pre¬ 
historic remains from Yorkshire and Derbyshire, have found a 
home, by private arrangement, in the Sheffield Museum. 
Geology. —The Curator of Geology reports that during 
the past year the collection of Jurassic Brachiopoda has been 
revised, and several additional specimens have been added to 
it, but he considered that it was not advisable to alter the old 
generic names of these to the new subgenera as the new 
nomenclature is not yet settled. 
A series of bones of the Ox and Horse, from the bed of 
the River Wiske, has been presented by Mr. Hutton. 
S. Chadwick, E.G.S., has kindly presented to the Society 
very fine specimens of the interesting fossil Solenopora jurassica 
from the Lower Calcareous Grit of Ruston, near Hutton 
Bushell. 
Mineralogy. —The Honorary Curator in Mineralogy reports 
that no work has been done in their department beyond 
the incorporating of a few new specimens. The most important 
