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REPORT OP THE 
St. Mary’s Abbey and other mediaeval edifices in York^ and^ with 
an addition now in progress, will further afford an appropriate 
depository for the more bulky Roman remains (altars, sarco¬ 
phagi, inscribed stones, &c.), mostly discovered in and around 
York; so that the entire building will comprise a Museum 
of Local Antiquities, adding greatly to the stores of instruc¬ 
tion and interest which the Society is enabled to present 
to its Members and Visitors. The whole collection, however, 
will require complete and careful arrangement, to render it as 
instructive as it is intrinsically valuable ; and the Council have 
reason to hope for very efficient assistance in this necessary 
work. The addition to the accommodations in the Hospitium, 
to which reference has just been made, the Council have been 
enabled to accomplish by the liberal benefaction of a deceased 
Member and zealous friend of the Society, the late Mr. Copsie, 
who bequeathed to the Society the sum of £100., accompanied 
by the expression of his desire that it should be applied to some 
object connected with the department of Antiquities; a condi¬ 
tion with which the Council could not hesitate in complying. 
Concurring cordially in the opinion of the Curator of Antiqui¬ 
ties, that the legacy could not be devoted to a better purpose, 
or one more in accordance with the wishes of the testator, the 
Council at once decided to apply it to the substantial restoration 
of that part of the lower story of the Hospitium which still lay in 
ruins. This work is now proceeding, and will be completed as 
soon as the season permits, at a cost little exceeding the amount 
of the proceeds of the legacy. 
In the department of Natural History, the report of the 
Keeper of the Museum shews the continued exertion of his 
zealous care of the collections committed to his superintendence, 
and records many valuable additions to their contents. Those 
to the Geological collection include the valuable purchase 
effected by Mr. Charlesworth, of two Saurian heads from the 
Lias of Whitby, the one a Teleosaurus, the other an undeter¬ 
mined species of Ichthyosaurus. These specimens,” observes 
Mr. C., form a great addition to our collection of extinct Rep- 
tilia, and I believe they may, in some respects, be respectively 
