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REPORT OF 
its duty to the Crown and the Public, by earnest and dis-= 
interested efforts in the advancement of natural and antiqua-= 
rian Science in Yorkshire. 
To have added some portion of the newly acquired pro¬ 
perty to the already spacious grounds connected with the 
Museum, might have opened to the Members some monastic 
reliques and architectural combinations of great pictorial 
beauty; but was impracticable in the present condition of 
the Society’s finances. The Council therefore appointed a 
Committee, by whose judgment they have been much guided 
in apportioning the ground among some of the old tenants, 
and various new claimants. 
In this duty they were sedulous to accomplish the re¬ 
moval of unsightly walls and tenements, from the Abbey 
lodge and gateway, the city wall and granary of the Abbey; 
all modes of occupation which might be likely to injure the 
pleasing effects thus produced were rejected; and in dividing 
the land, care has been taken that if, at any future time, 
the Society shall resolve to augment its botanic garden, 
those parts likely to be most desirable shall be easily re- 
claimable at a short notice, and in a state of improved adap¬ 
tation. 
With a desire to aid as far as may be the course of 
improvements now happily begun in York, the Council 
entertained proposals from a Company for the erection of 
a public Swimming Bath, and allotted for their use an acre 
of ground, under cCrtain rnecessary conditions, adjoining the 
Abbey wall and the river; but this negociation is yet in¬ 
complete. 
The payment to the Crown for the five acres and a 
half of ground, and the buildings and other property upon 
