COUNCIL FOR igOO. 
XI 
Department of Antiquities.— There is little to report in 
this department, the year having been generally poor in finds 
of any importance. The Architect of the new N.E.R. offices, 
with the consent of Directors, kindly undertook to watch the 
excavations on our behalf, but the objects found have so far 
been of the ordinary type. 
Through the kindness of Mr. Selke, an interesting mediaeval 
Jar, found in the river sand at Tadcaster, was presented to the 
Society by Mr. Arthur Rogers. This jar is of large size, 
and is furnished with a hole evidently intended for a tap or 
spigot: it bears a seal impressed with a cross which points to 
its probably having belonged to some religious house. 
In the latter part of the year the Council decided to 
commence excavations in the chancel of the Abbey Church of 
S. Mary, and appointed a small Committee to superintend the 
work, which is still in progress. 
Departmental Report on Botanv. —The specimens of 
British Rubi in the Herbarium are few in number and inferior 
in quality, excepting those collected by Mr. H. Fisher in 1900. 
The Dalton Collection contains three specimens of this 
genus, and the Rubi enumerated in the Hailstone Catalogue 
of British plants are, I regret to say, in the National 
Collection at Kew. 
Since my last report (1899) the Rev. William Moyle Rogers, 
F.L.S. has published (through Duckworth and Co., of Fondon) 
a Handbook of British Rubi. The author kindly allowed me 
to submit some Rubi of my collecting in 1885, and these will 
be found on pp. 15—18, with the initials W.M.R. attached 
to the author’s remarks. 
I beg to tender my thanks to the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers for 
his courtesy in correcting and naming the Rubi in your 
Herbarium ; also to Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., Croydon, 
Mr. William Whitwell, F.L.S., Fondon, and Mr. H. Fisher, 
Knaresborough, for their kindness in forwarding specimens to 
the Society and for assistance which they have given to me. 
