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which the Yorkshire Museum was founded, and justifies the 
very liberal patronage which it has received. 
Whilst the collections of Natural History have been thus 
enriched, there have been presented to the Library Fifty- 
seven Volumes, with the numbers hitherto publislied of 
M. Audubon’s splendid work on the birds of America; ^ and to 
the Antiquarian Cabinet, one hundred and fifty-five Coins, 
Medals, and dies. The most interesting of the coins is that 
of Archbishop Vigmund, ^ on account of its having been 
found under the foundations of the rampart immediately 
adjoining Micklegate Bar; thus furnishing some additional 
evidence as to the age in which that rampart was built. 
Among the Miscellaneous Antiquities, the large and figured 
iirn,^ found with human bones in a tumulus near Bishop- 
Burton, in the East-riding of Yorkshire, is peculiarly curious; 
as it serves both to elucidate the mode of sepulture practised 
among our British ancestors, and at the same time, to show 
the progress which they had made, under their masters the 
Romans, in some of the arts of life. 
But on nothing, connected with Antiquarian Research, has 
the Society so much reason to congratulate itself, as on 
having been the means of uncovering to view, the foundations 
of the Abbey of St. Mary ; of bringing again to light, many 
exquisite specimens of sculpture which once adorned that 
magnificent fabric, and of enabling the antiquary to correct 
’ Subscribed for by several members of Ihe Society. 
' Presented by Mr. Bleckly. * Presented by Dr. Kull, of Beverley, 
