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logical Institute, during their recent visit to York. It has, 
however, been found advisable to postpone the completion of the 
alterations connected with St. Leonard’s Hospital, and the 
entrance to the grounds, until the plans of the Corporation for 
the splendid improvements contemplated in the adjoining streets 
shall he finally and accurately defined. 
The improvements on which the Corporation have resolved, 
and which now await the sanction of an Act of Parliament, 
will prove in an especial manner advantageous to the Society, 
by rendering the approach to the Gardens more handsome and 
commodious, and the Museum more easily accessible to strangers. 
The Donations to the Collection of Antiquities during the past 
year have not been numerous. For the most important of these, 
a small Poman Altar, dedicated to the local deity Veterinus or 
Veterineus, and found in a farm-house near the Poman Station 
Magna, on the wall of Hadrian, the Society is indebted to 
Edwin Smith, Esq. 
But if the Antiquarian department of the Museum has not 
been enriched by many donations, it has received by purchase a 
large addition of peculiar interest,—the Collection of the 
remains of Poman York, formed during the course of more 
than twenty years, with great industry and at considerable 
expense, by Mr. W. Hargrove. This extensive collection con¬ 
sists chiefly of an interesting portion of a tessellated pavement, 
of inscribed monumental stones, earthen vessels, urns, and 
lachrymatories, of various shapes and sizes, of fragments of 
Samian ware, of vessels of glass, and of Poman coins, all found 
in York. In addition to these, bronzes and fragments of enamel, 
partly, perhaps, Poman, and partly Saxon or Mediaeval ; and 
more than 2000 Northumbrian coins or Stycas, which being 
added to the 1000 already in the cabinet of the Museum, it 
may be safely affirmed that the Society is in possession of more 
than half the hoard found in St. Leonard’s Place in 1842 ; the 
fourth of the great hoards of these coins (of which so much is 
yet to be learned) discovered in this kingdom. 
The Yorkshire Philosophical Society already possessed a most 
interesting collection of the remains ofEburacum; and when these 
