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REPORT OF THE 
Sunday after the feast of St. Michael, A.D. 1528, and ending 
with the same Sunday, x4..D. 1529. The Curator hopes to be 
able to present a transcript of this document, or at least, such 
an abstract of it, as may exhibit the information it conveys 
concerning the domestic state of the Abbey, at a period so near 
to the time of its suppression. To Robert Davies, Esq., the 
Society is indebted for a valuable addition to the Cabinet of 
Coins; consisting of 40 silver pennies, groats, &c., of various 
kings, beginning with Canute, in excellent condition, and of 
which 20 were struck at York. A valuable present of Roman 
and mediseval remains, found at Lincoln, has also been re¬ 
ceived from Mrs. Hutton, of Beverley. 
Several members of the Society having expressed a wish to 
subscribe cowards the purchase of a Roman Altar and other 
interesting relics found during the restoration of the church of 
St. Dennis in this city, the Council became responsible for the 
purchase, and they were finally secured at a cost to the Society 
of £5. 8s. Od. An account of this very curious Altar, by the 
Curator of Antiquities, will be found in the Proceedings before 
alluded to. The Society is in possession of the largest collection 
of Northumbrian Stycas probably in existence, amounting to 
about 5000, formed from the two great hoards of St. Leonard’s 
Place, York, and Bolton Percy. The Curator has employed 
much of his time in arranging these, and in drawing up a rough 
catalogue of them, a fair transcript of which he hopes, ere long, 
to lay before the Society. 
By means of donations and exchanges, several valuable 
additions have been made to the Geological Collection. A fine 
example of the Ichthyosaurus, from Lyme Regis, has been pre¬ 
sented by Mr. E. Higgins. This specimen, which is about eight 
feet in length, has the spinal column complete to the terminal 
caudal vertebra : it also exhibits the four paddles and the bones 
of the head in a very instructive manner. Before receiving this 
donation, the Society possessed only a few detached bones and 
casts of portions of the skeleton to illustrate this remarkable 
extinct reptilian type. The Trustees of the British Museum 
have presented to the Society some of the reptilian and mam¬ 
malian Fossils, collected by Capt. Cautley and Dr. Falconer in 
