REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR igil. 
IX 
Antiquities. —A number of carved stones found during the 
excavations for the Museum additions, which will he reported 
on by the Architect Mr. E. Ridsdale Tate ; a portion of an 
ornamented plaster ceiling from a house demolished in Barker 
Lane ; a fine urn from a tumulus at Thornton Dale, opened 
by Mr. Oxley Grabham, Keeper of the Museum. This urn 
is described and illustrated in another part of the Report by 
Dr. J. L. Kirk, of Pickering. 
The vestibule to the Monastic Chapter House has been en¬ 
closed, and is intended to be used as a Museum for mediaeval 
antiquities. 
An inscribed slab commemorating a member of the Sixth 
Legion has been found at the Mount School. x\ description of 
it by Mr. H. M. Platnauer appears in another part of the 
Report. The Museum is the proper home for such antiquities. 
It is hoped that the Trustees of the School may see their way 
to present the slab to the Philosophical Society; especially 
since the Mother Superior of S. Mary’s Convent presented the 
beautiful statue of a Roman soldier and other objects found on 
those premises. 
The Museum has a fine collection of objects of archaeological 
interest, and in this connection it is pleasing to record that 
the local archaeological Society now hold its meetings at 
the Museum, 
Botany. —The specimens in the Herbarium are in good 
condition. No additions have been made during the year 1911. 
Entomological Section.— Nothing noteworthy has been 
added to this department during the past year. The various 
collections remain in good order. The removal from the 
Council Chamber to the new work-room will enable arrange¬ 
ments to be made for several of the minor collections of 
Insects to be available for the use of students of Entomology 
in future. It is very desirable to start what has been long 
needed in this Museum, viz., a Collection of the several orders 
of Yorkshire Insects only—formed on the almost complete list 
which appears in the “ Victorian History’ of this County. 
