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REPORT or THE 
interpretation of one portion of it has exercised^ hitherto in 
vain, the ingenuity of several learned antiquaries. 
The Koman pavement at Oulston, near Easingwold, still 
remains in the state described in the last Report. The death 
of the late Sir George Wombwell, and the absence of his 
successor from England, prevented its removal during the 
favourable season of the year, but when this returns, the 
Council will proceed to act upon the permission which they 
have received to transfer it to the Museum of the Society. 
Towards the close of the year 1854 the Council were informed 
that it was intended to destroy the gateway of the ancient 
Priory of the Holy Trinity, in Micklegate. Desirous to preserve 
this last relic of the dependent buildings belonging to a religious 
house, which is connected with the history of York before the 
Norman Conquest, they addressed a representation to the pro¬ 
prietor of the ground on which it stood; but were informed 
that its preservation was impossible, except on conditions with 
which it was not in their power to comply. While the Council 
deeply regret the destruction of another of those monuments 
which gave to our city its interesting and characteristic appear¬ 
ance, they may be allowed to congratulate the citizens of York 
and the lovers of antiquity in general, that so many of these are 
now secured from destruction, by being included within the 
precincts of a Society which appreciates their importance and 
is pledged to their preservation. 
Among the additions made to the Library in the course of 
the last year, the largest and most valuable is that of the 
Philosophical Transactions from the year 1835, the donation 
of the Rev. Wm. Taylor, P. R. S., an honorary member of this 
Society, who has promised to present the future volumes as they 
appear. Lord Londesborough has presented five more numbers 
of the Miscellanea Graphica, containing engravings of works 
of Mediaeval art from his Museum, recently enriched by many 
valuable additions from the collection of Mr. Bernal. This 
work is curious not only as illustrating the state of art in the 
middle ages by many exquisite specimens, but as exhibiting the 
perfection to which chromolithography has attained. Professor 
Sedgwick has presented a copy of the beautiful and elaborate 
