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REPORT OF THE 
During the past year some very interesting papers have been 
read at the Monthly Meetings of the Society. The Council are 
glad to stale, that a number of The Transactions of the York¬ 
shire Philosophical Society/’ will very shortly be published. 
In the department of Antiquities, it is a subject of great satis¬ 
faction, that the excavations which have been carried on, during 
the past year, in various parts of the city and suburbs of York, 
have brought to light many interesting relics of Roman times, 
several of which have happily found a place in the Museum of 
the Society. The most important of these is the beautiful 
tessellated pavement, discovered in Toft Green ,* which, having 
been presented to the Society by the Corporation, was carefully 
removed, and has been skilfully and successfully transferred, 
under the direction of a Committee, to the lower room of the 
Hospitium. Another pavement, differing in its design, yet not 
less beautiful though unfortunately less perfect, together -with a 
large portion of the border of a third, discovered at the same 
time, in the immediate neighbourhood of the first, have also 
been removed and deposited in the upper room of the Hospitium, 
ready to be reconstructed whenever a proper place can be found 
for that purpose. Beneath the first pavement, a small brass 
coin was found, inscribed on the obverse DIVO CLilVDIO 
(Gothico), and on the reverse CONSECRATIO, clearly shew¬ 
ing that the work could not have been executed earlier than the 
latter part of the third century of the Christian era. 
The foundations of a Roman building, composed of large stones 
of grit, one of which is placed in the Museum, were lately dis¬ 
covered in Micklegate, near St. Martin’s Church ; determining, 
as the Curator of Antiquities thinks, the site of the temple of 
Serapis, re-built, as a tablet of the same material in possession 
of the Society records, by the Legate of the sixth Legion Claudius 
Hieronymianus. 
The Society is indebted to Mr. \Yaddington for a deposit of 
several interesting Roman remains, obtained from recent or 
former excavations on the Mount. Among them is the 
Sarcophagus on which is inscribed, in beautifully formed letters, 
the memorial of Theodorianus by his mother Theodora. The 
Museum of the Society now contains all the existing inscribed 
