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REPORT OF THE 
paper which he was about to read at the Meeting of the 
Archseological Institute, in that city. Edward H. Keynard, 
Esq., of Sunderlandwick, near Driffield, has presented to the 
Museum a coffin, supposed to be British, of unusual dimen¬ 
sions, hollowed from the trunk of an oak, and containing, 
when discovered, the remains of several skeletons. 
Other antiquities, not of a local character, have been 
received during the year: from the Eev. J. J. Harrison, some 
fictile vases and other objects from the Museum at Kertch ; 
from the Misses Cheap, a collection made by their late brother 
during his travels in Egypt. 
The Library has received from Lord Londesborough the 
successive numbers of his Miscellanea Graphica, now ap¬ 
proaching completion; from the Spalding Club a beautiful and 
instructive volume On the Sculptured Stones of Scotland 
from the Board of Admiralty a volume of Magnetical Obser¬ 
vations ; and from various Scientific and Literary Societies 
copies of their Transactions and Proceedings. Some valuable 
Works have also been added, by purchase, to the Library ; 
in Natural History, the beautiful work On the Ferns of 
Great Britain and Ireland,” illustrated by the new process of 
nature printing. In antiquities, the concluding numbers of 
the Monastic Kemains of Yorkshire, published by Mr. Sunter, 
under the editorship of Archdeacon Churton; Artis’s Duro- 
brivse, and Eaussett’s Inventorium Sepulcrale, containing an 
account of those researches among the Kentish Tumuli, which 
gave the first insight into the proper classification of Saxon 
antiquities. 
The Alphabetical Catalogue has been transcribed, and is 
ready for printing, whenever it may be thought expedient. 
According to the report of the Curator of Meteorological 
Instruments (Mr. Ford) the amount of rain for York has 
exceeded, in the last year, a mean quantity of about 2 inches. 
This excess has not compensated for the defect of the three 
previous years. The following statement seems to indicate a 
tendency to a diminished annual fall in the plain of York : — 
