X 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1916. 
generosity of the owner of the property, Mr. Barton, have 
been given. The arch stones are enriched by small figures in 
circular bands and are unlike anything yet found in York. The 
cap is of rich interlaced band and leaf ornament, not unlike 
one found in the west wall of Holy Trinity Priory in 1903, and 
placed on a bracket on one of the nave piers in that church. 
A group has been made of arcade caps from St. Mary’s Abbey, 
which although much weathered, form a valuable study for 
students of architecture. 
A very rich, late Norman arch stone, one of a series of signs 
of the zodiac, with a carved soffit of an unusual type, with 
many other interesting stones have been given to the Collection. 
The curators of archaeology would be most grateful for 
further donations of curious and interesting stones of the 
mediaeval period, from members and friends. There still 
remain in private possession many hundreds of beautiful frag¬ 
ments gleaned from the ruins of the buildings of mediaeval 
York, which accident or purchase have placed in the temporary 
possession of individuals. These fragments are rarely seen, 
and in many cases are quite unknown, or covered with garden 
foliage and lost. 
It should be the endeavour of York citizens, and especially 
of the members of the Philosophical Society, to increase the 
Museum Collection by presenting the most interesting frag¬ 
ments in their possession to it, so that all may enjoy and profit 
by the delightful and incomparable examples of mediaeval 
mason craft. Were this effort taken up as it might be, our 
Collection would be more worthy and representative of this 
ancient city. 
Botany. —Herbarium : The work done in this department 
is as follows v -— 
I beg to record my thanks to Mr. Arthur Bennett, Croydon, 
Surrey, and also to Corporal A. Templeman (of the Royal 
Scots Greys), for their contributions to the Society’s Herbarium, 
which will be found on page xxxix. 
To enable me to complete my “Notes on the Herbarium,” 
I shall be pleased to receive any criticisms or observations 
from those who are interested in the Herbaria, relating to : 
