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terms provided the whole sum be raised, and another friend, a 
lady, will also advance £200. 
The legacy of £1,000 under the will of the late Mr. Rawdon 
is expressly directed to be invested. It will scarcely produce 
much more than £25 per annum, whereas if it could have been 
applied to the reduction of the debt, the relief to the finances 
of the Society would have been much greater. If, however, it 
cculd have been applied according to some such scheme as 
above, it would have been still more advantageous to the 
Society, and Mr. Rawdon could have had the satisfaction of 
seeing it so applied in his lifetime. 
The Council earnestly appeal to those interested in the 
Societv to assist them in furthering some such scheme. 
The Council recommend Mr. Richard Thompson as Vice- 
President in the place of Mr. William Walker, deceased ; and 
the following gentlemen as members of Council in place of 
those who retire by rotation : — Rev. W. Howarth, Jas. 
Ramsay, M.D., Jno. Teasdale, M.A., Oxley Grabham, M.A. ; 
and the following gentlemen as honorary members, Mr. J. E. 
Clark, Sir James Creighton Browne, Mr. Harrison Broadley. 
Archeology. —Antiquities continue to be added to the 
collections in considerable number, the following additions are 
specially deserving of note—a stone coffin (Roman) found on 
the Mount and presented by Air. Brett, and a series of Late 
Celtic remains from the so-called “ Danes’ Graves ” presented 
by Mr. Harrison Broadley and Mr. J. R. Alortimer. A paper 
by the last-named gentleman describing the latter relics will 
be found in the second part of this Report. 
Geology. —The Honorary Curator of Geology reports that 
during the past year the valuable collection of Muschelkalk 
fossils, presented to the Society by Herr Dr. Pfarrer Engel, 
has been arranged and placed in the collection. Dr. Engel 
has given some more fine specimens of Ceratites. The Hon. 
Curator has added to the Jurassic series of brachiopoda several 
species of Rhynchonella from Gloucestershire which were not 
represented in the collection. Mr. P. C. Hawkins has pre¬ 
sented a block of fossiliferous sandstone found on the Mount, 
