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REPORT OF THE 
would have been removed to the Museum of the Society three 
or four months ago, by permission of the late Sir G. Wombwell, 
on whose estate it was found, and with the sanction of the 
Council, if the weather had not been so unfavourable. Effec¬ 
tual means have been taken to secure it from injury during the 
winter; and there is no reason to apprehend that the present 
owner will revoke the gift of his predecessor; especially as this 
beautiful specimen of Roman decoration must inevitably be 
destroyed, if the Yorkshire Philosophical Society abandon it. 
It may perhaps be thought not advisable, to incur the 
expense of adding to our Antiquarian Collections more objects 
of this description, interesting as they may be, since in the 
present state of our finances, it is not possible to provide a 
suitable place for exhibiting them to the public. This is 
certainly a circumstance to be deeply regretted. But the 
Council would beg leave to suggest that it is a matter of great 
importance, not to say, the duty of the Society, even at some 
inconvenience, to rescue such interesting objects from destruc¬ 
tion ; and it surely may be hoped, that by the improvement 
of its finances, or by the revival of that zeal which the 
public manifested, when the pavements in Toft Green were 
discovered, the Society will be enabled, at no very distant 
period, to erect a building in which all these specimens of 
Roman domestic ornamentation may be preserved and dis¬ 
played. 
Some deficiencies in the series of English coins in the cabinet 
of the Society, particularly of Hen. V. and Hen. VII., have 
recently been supplied by Mr. Davies. The Curator has 
added several denarii to the series of the Roman Families. 
Mr. Procter has presented five antient brass coins, Greek, and 
Roman Provincial, not in very good condition, but interesting 
as having been found by Dr. Layard at Nineveh. 
The Rev. John Ward, of Wath, has presented to the Society 
a large collection of drawings, representing the decorated pave¬ 
ment in encaustic tiles at Jervaulx Abbey, made by order of the 
late Earl of Ailesbury in 1807, when the ruins of the Abbey 
were excavated. 
The additions made to the Library by donation or purchase 
