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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR I915. 
unworthy approach. It contained the fuse box, &c., of the 
electric installation on the right hand wall, a door leading to 
another room, and the wooden platform covering the hot water 
pipes, which necessitated two steps up and two down was 
dangerous to visitors. These objectionable features have been 
either hidden or in many cases, done away with. 
The Vestibule, as it is now to be called, has been lighted by 
two 50-candle power lamps, the offending pipes have been put 
in a trench under the floor, and the door in the right hand wall 
masked by a larger case, which contains a great part of our 
splendid collection of mediaeval floor tiles where, well-lighted, 
they can he seen to better advantage than when in the 
Hospitium ; the new arrangement makes the mediaeval period 
of work as shown in our collections easier to study by the 
visitor. The great mortar from the Infirmary of the Abbey 
has been placed to the right of the entrance door, this formerly 
stood amidst incongruous surroundings in the upper Entrance 
Hall. The walls of the Vestibule have been relieved from 
their bareness by disposing around them the interesting pieces 
of mediaeval woodwork formerly in the Ethnological Room. 
A very elegant figure of the Virgin has been placed on a 
bracket under the line perpendicular doorway set up on the 
left hand wall. An old bench in one corner serves as a seat 
for the visitor to view this now quaint and striking entrance 
to our Mediaeval Collection. Another room on the left hand 
will in due course be thrown open to visitors, and will contain 
further examples of mediaeval work. 
Two lights have been placed in the Architectural Museum, 
but it is to be hoped that they may be augmented in time, for 
the room is often dark in cloudy weather, and some of our 
visitors and students often express a desire for more light upon 
many of the exquisite specimens of work exhibited there. A 
small number of finds yet remain to be dealt with and placed 
on view. 
Meteorology.— Statistics of Station. —Longitude, i 5' W. : 
Latitude, 53° 57' N. ; height above mean sea level, 56 feet. 
Generally speaking, the year 1914 in regard to “ weather ” 
must be classed among the good years. The summer was 
