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The total sum, therefore, which has been laid out by the 
Committee, is £8500, of which about £300 may be considered 
as balanced by the value of two hundred copies of the 
publication on St. Mary’s Abbey, placed at the disposal of the 
Council by the Society of Antiquaries. Thus the expenditure 
has exceeded by £200 the sum at which the execution of 
the whole undertaking was estimated in the last Report. 
And though the work is in other respects essentially com¬ 
plete, no provision has been made for fitting up the interior 
of the Museum with Cases, for the reception of the Society’s 
extensive collections. The error of the estimate, however, 
will not appear considerable, when it is recollected that to 
the usual causes which operate in carrying the expense of 
such undertakings beyond the calculation, there is to be 
added, in this instance, the variety of objects which were 
to be accomplished, and the extent and peculiar character 
of the ground which was to be enclosed, and excavated, 
and brought into use. 
The actual deficiency of the subscriptions is between five 
and six hundred pounds ; and to raise this sum, and to 
procure the means of fitting up the Museum, an application 
has recently been made to the public. It is true that a 
small additional donation from each member of the Society, 
would relieve the Institution from embarrassment ; and it 
will be observed with pleasure by the Meeting, that the name 
of one of its most distinguished Patrons 1 stands again at the 
head of a list of Subscribers, who have come forward since the 
1 The Archbishop of York, 
