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REPORT OF THE 
tion of finding tliat the design planned by Sir John Nasmyth, 
and now far advanced towards completion under the superin¬ 
tendence of the Garden Committee, has met with very general 
acceptance. 
Amongst the happiest incidents of these improvements may 
be enumerated the addition of an architectural platform which 
has long been desired to give full eftect to the facade of the 
l^luseum, the exposure of the moulded base of the Hospitium 
with the adjoining archway, and the opening out a better view 
of the beautiful remnants of mixed Norman and Pointed archi¬ 
tecture connected with the Abbey. 
That which still remains to be wished, for the perfection of 
the alterations on which so much care has been bestowed, is to 
include, if possible, within the Society’s precincts those re¬ 
mains of monastic antiquity contiguous to the principal 
entrance, which the public spirit of the Corporation has re¬ 
cently relieved from the mean sheds and walls by which they 
were defaced -and concealed. 
On the subject of these remains the Council purpose to pre¬ 
sent the following memorial: 
“ To the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of Yorlt^ 
THE MEMORIAL OF THE XmRKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 
Sheweth, 
That the Hospital of St. Leonard’s 
was one of the most ancient and most richly endowed of the 
Religious Houses established in York. Only one small por¬ 
tion of this Hospital, which formerly occupied a considerable 
space, is now remaining, supposed to be a part of a covered 
cloister or ambulatory, and exhibiting an interesting specimen 
of the architecture of the ao-e to which it belono-s. In the 
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changes which York is undergoing, it is not improbable that 
it may share the fate of St. William’s Chapel and other 
relics of past ages recently swept away, unless it shall be 
placed under the protection of some public institution, in¬ 
terested in the preservation of the antiquities by which the 
