X 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR I917. 
It is worthy of note that further important pieces are known 
to exist, and it is to be hoped that they may be ultimately 
added to those already in the Collection. 
In the late autumn a visit was paid to the Archaeological 
Museum by Sir W. H. St. John Hope, who made some 
suggestions and recommendations to the Hon. Curator, who 
showed him round. ' 
The room is dark in the later months of the year, and the 
Curators constantly regret that their recommendations as to 
an extension of the electric installation, for which estimates 
were obtained in 1914, were not then carried out. Many 
of the beautiful objects of mediasval stone-work cannot be 
properly seen ; certainly when the conditions produced by 
the war cease to obtain, the lighting scheme should be pro¬ 
ceeded with. 
A veiy large number of the descriptive cards attached to, or 
placed upon, the various objects in the Museum have been 
removed without the permission of the Curators, and as these 
cards contained much information dihicult to replace, the 
Curators trust that any future labels will not be removed from 
the stones which they describe. This is an important matter, 
for the cards formed, to a certain extent, the basis of the new 
catalogue which it is hoped may some day be made. The 
absence of information has been adversely commented on in 
the local press, and the destruction and removal of the cards, 
which took much time to write, has been a source of justifiable 
annoyance to the Curator who prepared them. 
The Curators again appeal for objects of interest to friends 
and citizens, especially for carved work from their garden 
rockeries, to further add to the variet}^ and interest of the 
Collection. 
It is hoped some time to make further excavations within 
the precincts of the Abbey Church, as many interesting details 
ma}^ yet be recovered—even one or two more of the figures of 
the old pulpitum screen, of which we now have ten. 
Botany. —Since my last Report I am pleased to say that 
the Catalogue of British Plants in the Herbarium has been 
completed and issued to the members. 
