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REPORT OF 
it contains. The suggestions of the Curator of Antiquities 1 
on this subject highly deserve the attention of the Meeting. 
“ He indulges the hope that larger accessions will be made of 
other relics, illustrative not only of the architecture of ancient 
times, but of many other subjects of antiquarian research. A 
suitable depository for the numerous remains of Yorkshire 
antiquities has long been desired; and where can such 
a depository be formed with greater propriety and advantage 
than in the capital of the county, amidst so many existing; 
monuments of ancient grandeur, and under the auspices of 
an Institution which, strong in its infancy, and giving signs 
of a long continued existence, will afford, in the increasing 
stores of its Museum, the readiest and most invaluable 
aid to the investigations of the topographer, no less than to 
those of the student and historian of nature. Had such an 
institution flourished a century ago, how many curious 
productions of ancient art might have been preserved, of 
which there are now no traces to be seen ! How many yet 
remaining, but daily exposed to the ravages of weather or of 
wantonness, and to the dangers attendant upon passing 
through the hands of successive owners, may be rescued from 
the fate that threatens them, if the present design should be 
realized, and the scattered fragments of antiquity collected in 
this Museum !” 
Such a design is entirely consonant with the general plan 
of the Society ; for it must always be remembered, that 
although there is no part of real knowledge, whether of art 
or nature, to which it does not wish to apply itself, yet 
local information, and whatever materials of information 
! The Rev. C, >VelibeIoved= 
