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REPORT OF 
this department the proceeds of his lectures, frames have been 
constructed to shelter the more tender herbaceous plants 
during the winter, and thus provide a source of increasing 
beauty and interest. 
The Library is indebted to a similar act of generosity, 
originating with the Rev. Archdeacon Markham, for the 
addition ofErovv^n’s Conchology, Hooker's Jungermannise, and 
Knorr's Petrefactenkunde. Mr. Hunter has presented to it 
his admirable Histories of Hallamshire, and of the Deanery of 
Doncaster; and Dr. Pearson has given fifty copies of his 
Tables for the reduction of astronomical observations. 
This munificent Patron of Astronomy will contemplate 
with satisfaction the Observatory which is now rising to 
receive his instruments and employ his useful tables. The 
Committee appointed for this object have been scrupulously 
attentive to the main point of a solid foundation and an im¬ 
moveable basis for the instruments ; they have made provision 
for a large transit and a circular instrument, and, by placing 
the revolving telescope on a separate foundation, believe that 
they shall at once secure accurate observations for time and 
position, and allow, on suitable occasions, more popular views 
of the heavenly phenomena. 
The Committee to whom the Society confided the duty of 
inquiring into the Antiquities of Yorkshire, and of collect¬ 
ing materials for a general topographical history of the county, 
had the great advantage of being aided in the commencement 
of their labours, by the learning and experience of the Rev. 
Joseph Hunter, who kindly furnished them with a most com¬ 
plete series of queries, embracing every point on which the 
topographer requires information. These queries the Com¬ 
mittee have caused to be extensively circulated through the 
county ; and they have received expressions of cordial appro- 
