8 
REPORT OF THE 
great value in improving and supplying fresh specimens to 
your collection. 
The financial position of the Society for the period under 
review is not quite so satisfactory. The income for the year 
from all sources is /T228 18s. gd., and the expenditure 
Y1242 13s. gd., shewing a deficiency of Y13 15s. od. Both 
the income and expenditure are less than the previous year 
when the figures were, income 4Y291 and expenditure 41288, 
but in that year there were special donations towards the cost 
of excavations, and the hire of the tent which that year pro¬ 
duced a substantial sum, has this year not only produced 
nothing, but owing to cost of repairs has caused a deficit. 
The Corporation have also withdrawn the Meteorological 
grant of -/To a year. This small deficiency is, however, easily 
met out of the balance in the hands of the Treasurer. The 
amount remaining due to the Yorkshire Insurance Company 
is 4Y646 7s. iod. 
During the past year your Society sustained a heavy loss by 
the death of the Rev. Wm. Haworth, F.S.A., one' of its 
most valued and useful Vice-Presidents and joint Curator of 
Archaeology. Canon Haworth took a deep interest in all 
that concerned your Society. He often presided at its meet¬ 
ings, and was a generous contributor both to its collections 
and funds. 
Your Council recommend the appointment of Mr. C. Wake¬ 
field as Curator of Antiquities in the place of the Rev. Wm. 
Haworth. 
Pastoral Plays were again performed in the Museum 
Gardens by Miss Tellek's Company during the past summer, 
and the Band of the York Philharmonic Society gave several 
performances. 
Meetings of kindred Societies have been held from time to 
time during the past year in the Theatre of the Museum. 
An effort is being made to render the Gardens more 
educationally useful from a Botanic point of view, and a 
scheme has been drawn up for treating that portion of the 
garden between the Hospitium and the River as a Botanic 
Garden under the direction of Mr. II. [. Wilkinson, the Curator 
of Botany, assisted by the Rev. J. J. Briggs. 
