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REPORT OF THE 
Extract from the Report of the Curator of Comparathe 
Anatomy. 
During tlie past year valuable additions have been made 
to our osteological collections. The bones of the Polar Bear 
have been presented to the Society by Mr. Hammond, of 
Hull, and the bones of several mammalia by the Curator of 
this department. Most of these have been mounted, and are 
exhibited in the cases of the Museum, as well as the skeletons 
of the Tapir and Nyl-Grhau, which were previously in the So¬ 
ciety "“s possession. These additions have, it is believed, placed 
the collection of the skeletons of the Mammalia at the head 
of all the provincial collections in this country ; a position 
which the Society already occupied with respect to its col¬ 
lection of the skeletons of Birds. This extensive collection 
is now placed in what was lately the Mineralogical Boom, 
where it is well displayed and of easy access. 
Extract from the Report of the Curator of Antiquities. 
The donations to the Collection of Antiquities have this year 
been unusually few. The Society is however much indebted 
to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral for having allowed 
the Mithraic Tablet in their possession to be deposited amongst 
the Antiquities of the Museum. This is one of the most in¬ 
teresting remains of Eboracum. Of the very few monuments 
relating to the worship of Mithras by the Bomans which 
have been found in Britain, it is the most perfect; and 
though rude in workmanship, in its characteristic emblems it 
is allied to some of the most curious and remarkable of similar 
monuments known to exist in Europe. 
Extract from the Report of the Curator of Meteorology. 
The temperature of the year 18-M was .3 of a degree below 
the average of the preceding 13 years, and .2 above that of 
the year 1843. The mean height of the mercury was above 
the average. The rain of 1844 has been less than that of any 
