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REPORT OF THE 
would be held out for the production of scientific communica¬ 
tions. With a similar object, the Council determined to adopt 
the example of other Societies, by printing, for distribution 
amongst the members, the scientific Proceedings of each 
Meeting, containing, in abstract or at full length, such papers 
or notices as specially related to the Natural History, Topo¬ 
graphy, and Antiquities of Yorkshire. Although several circum¬ 
stances have combined to render the experiment hitherto only 
partially successful, the Council have reason, upon the whole, to 
be satisfied with its result; and although they have not proposed 
at present any alteration in the Society’s existing laws regarding 
the Monthly Meetings, they would recommend the continuance 
of this experiment. 
Three numbers of the ^ Proceedings’ have been printed, and 
delivered to the Members. They comprise several communica¬ 
tions of great interest and value ; and it is to be hoped that their 
circulation may operate as a stimulus to those who have the 
ability and the leisure to contribute information in the same 
manner to future Meetings, and thus not only to keep alive the 
interest of both the resident and more distant Members in the 
Society’s pursuits, but eventually to treasure up a store of facts 
and researches, which may furnish valuable materials for an 
accurate and complete Natural and Topographical History of 
this great County. 
The Council now proceed to give some account of what has 
been effected during the past year, in the several departments of 
the Institution. 
To the Collection of Antiquities an addition has been made 
of a highly interesting character, and reflecting great credit on 
the liberality of the donor. By the kindness of Joseph Dent, 
Esq., the High Sheriff of the county, the wish expressed by the 
historian of York a century ago, and repeated by the author 
of Eburacum,”'^ has been accomplished, and the monumental 
stone in commemoration of Lucius Duccius, a standard-bearer 
of the ninth legion, found about the year 1686, in Trinity 
Gardens, and afterwards removed to Ribston Hall, has been 
* Sec Drake’s York, p. 58. Wellbeloved’s Ebiiracum, p. 114. 
