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KEPORT OF THE 
Of Coins, the most interesting donation is one presented to 
the Society, by command of Her Majesty the Queen, through 
Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan¬ 
caster, consisting of a selection from the coins found at 
Cuerdale near Preston. The other Antiquarian Accumula¬ 
tions, mostly from localities in York, and illustrative of cir¬ 
cumstances important in the history of our country, have now 
become so abundant as to defy all attempt at arrangement 
without some entirely new adaptation, not only of the cases 
but even of the rooms, an object for which the proceeds of the 
valuable Discourses delivered last year by the Curator were 
placed at the Society’s disposal. 
These large collections will, it is hoped, acquire a new in¬ 
terest from the publication (now speedily expected) of a work 
long contemplated by the Curator, and containing the result 
of his diligent studies into the ancient history of ‘ Eburacum.’ 
In the progress of this work the Council takes a lively interest, 
not only because the execution of it will fulfil a part of the 
most cherished objects of the Institution, but because much 
of the material evidence on which it rests will be found within 
our walls. 
Among the donations to the Library are the continuations 
of the valuable Transactions of several learned Societies, and 
a gift of much interest, viz. the ^ Annales des Mines de Rus- 
sie,’ presented by Gen. Tscheifkiiie. 
The Laboratory is in an effective state; and the Curator, to 
whom the Society is indebted for this improvement, has found 
it serviceable in his lectures to the York School of Medicine. 
The Observatory has been in regular operation, as far as 
the state of the weather and the condition of the instruments 
would permit. The Curator reports that some considerable ‘ 
improvement is desirable in respect of the mounting of the 
