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REPORT OF THE 
audience. As the public was admitted on payment, a profit 
was made on the lecture amounting to upwards of -Tig. This 
sum was handed over by the Society to the York County 
Hospital. 
The financial aspect of the Society is encouraging. In 
spite of the heavy expenses of the excavations and a consid¬ 
erable expenditure necessitated by the condition of S. Leonard’s 
Hospital, the balance is on the right side. This balance, it is 
true, is barely £2, but it is a matter for congratulation that 
the Society should have emerged from a year of exceptional 
expenses with any balance in hand at all. A substantial in¬ 
crease in members’ subscriptions and a rigid economy in almost 
every department of the museum (the necessity for which the 
Council deeply regrets), are the main causes of this favourable 
result. But we must not, in our satisfaction at the manage¬ 
ment of a successful year, lose sight of the heavy debt with 
which the Society is burdened. A sum of Ti,goo has to he re¬ 
paid to the Yorkshire Insurance Company, and the Society’s 
financial position cannot be considered in a permanently 
satisfactory condition so long as this heavy burden remains. 
The Council still urges benefactors of the Society to seriously 
consider the scheme for dealing with this debt which was 
proposed four years ago. 
Archeology.— No valuable specimens have been added to 
our collection during the past year. Many objects have been 
obtained from the excavations at Clifford’s Tower, and from 
those made during the extension of the York Union Bank and 
the re-building of Thompson’s house in High Ousegate, but 
these possess no special value beyond illustrating the age of 
the soil in which they were found. 
The most important matters affecting this department, viz., 
the preservation of Clifford’s Tower, the excavations in the 
Choir of our Abbey, and the protection of the City Ramparts 
will be found dealt with in the General Report of the Council. 
The collections are in good order, and your Hon. Curators 
note with satisfaction the increasing extent to which they are 
