REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR I916. 
IX 
The death of the Very Rev. the Dean of York (A. P. Purey- 
Cust) will be much felt by our members. The late Dean was 
our senior Vice-President, and until failing health and advanced 
years restricted his energies was a constant attendant at our 
Council meetings and took a very lively interest in our Society. 
It is not yet a year ago that he received a deputation from 
your Council, who waited upon him to request his sanction to 
the erection of a memorial tablet in York Minster to our late 
President, Dr. Tempest Anderson. That sanction he cordially 
gave. The tablet is almost completed, and it is hoped that it 
will shortly be placed on the north aisle of the choir. 
The Council recommend that the Rev. W. Johnson, Dr. 
Bedford Pierce, Dr. Evelyn, and Mr. Potter-Kirby be new 
Members of Council in place of those retiring by rotation. That 
Messrs. T. Boynton and W. Cooper be new Vice-Presidents, 
and subject to alteration of rule Messrs. Chas. E. Elmhirst 
and H J. Wilkinson. 
Archaeology. —A few additions have been made to the 
Collection in the Archaeological Museum and placed in the 
large room under the Lecture Theatre, probably the most 
striking being the setting up of the arch found in forming St. 
Leonard’s Place, and for many years lying in separate stones in 
the Ambulatory of St. Leonard’s Hospital ruins. In the small 
buttress wall supporting the newly-set-up arch, has been built 
in the interesting piscina formerly in the Abbey Church of St. 
Mary, given some time ago by Mr. F. Rowntree. 
Several caps from the demolished church of St. Maurice, and 
an arch stone from the arcade of the Norman Abbey Church 
of St. Mary, York—the predecessor of the ruined church we 
now see—with very bold and novel treatment of the chevron 
ornament have been added to the store of fragments. 
Three arch stones, and a cap, richly ornamented, Middle 
Norman Period, found at the corner of Piccadilly and Pave¬ 
ment, by the courtesy of the architect, Mr. Brierley, and the 
