REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1916. 
Xlll 
The last of these, the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geolog¬ 
ical Society, has yielded us “ A Bibliography of Yorkshire 
Geology,” by T. Sheppard, M.Sc. etc., perhaps the greatest 
aid to the study of the natural features of the county since the 
publication of Prof. Phillips’ great classics on the “ Geology of 
Yorkshire.” There is no other county which can boast such 
a work. 
Of individual donations, two of great interest may be re¬ 
marked, one, a nicely bound copy of Part 3 of the Victoria and 
Albert Museum Portfolios dealing with Tapestries, presented 
by the Victoria and Albert Museum, and bound at the cost of 
an anonymous donor. This book is of great value to us, as for 
the first time we possess in it a careful and well illustrated 
account of the fine Sheldonian Tapestries presented to the 
Y.P.S. by Archbishop Harcourt in 1831. The second gift to 
be noted is a complete set of the “ Penny Cyclopaedia,” which 
we owe to the generosity of another self-effacing donor. It is 
of value to us, not only for its historical importance, its wealth 
of wood-cut illustrations, and its clear articles from the pen of 
Richard Owen and others of its period (1833-44), but also 
because it contains an important review of the Science of 
Geology from the pen of Prof. Phillips, written when he was 
Keeper of the Society’s Museum. 
The subject of “Yorkshire Pots and Potters” has been much 
before the Society in recent years. The new cases in the first 
floor of the old theatre provided the facilities for an improved 
display of a selection of the pottery possessed by the Society. 
Mr. Grabham’s lecture in February, 1913, on “ Yorkshire 
Pottery,” his monograph on “ Yorkshire Potteries, Pots, and 
Potters,” which was issued with last year’s Report, the gifts 
and loans of Yorkshire Pottery by Mr. T. Boynton and Mr. 
A. Hurst, have all tended in the same direction, and mem¬ 
bers may be interested to know that the following are in the 
Library :— 
Birch, Samuel. History of Ancient Pottery. 1873. 
British Museum. Guide to English Pottery and Porce¬ 
lain. 1910. 
Burlington, Fine Arts Club. Catalogue of Collection of 
Early English Earthenware and other Works of 
Art. 1913. 
,, Exhibition of Early English Earthenware. 1914. 
Burton, Wm. English Earthenware. 1904. 
