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REPORT OF THE 
fine one, but the treasures within onr walls are nothing when 
compared with the almost nnicjiie examples of ancient sculpture 
and masonry which are to he seen within the enclosure of our 
grounds. The conservation of these must always be one of the 
chief duties of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 
Gteology.— Considerable additions have been made to this 
Department. The Honorary Curator, Hr. William Peed, 
from whom we have received so many kindnesses and such 
valuable donations, and whom w^e are very happy to see among 
us still, has strengthened many parts of the Collection, 
notably the Pliocene, Low’er Cretaceous, Infra-Oolitic and 
Cambro-Silurian series; wiiilst by presenting a Collection of 
fossil Fish and Crustacea from the Calciferous Sandstones, 
he has filled up the only important gap that existed in 
our Collection of Palaeozoic fossils. 
The Society is also to be congratulated on the accjuisition of 
a verv fine series of fossils from the Jurassic Pocks of Lincoln- 
shire. Pdiis Collection was presented by the Pev J. E. Cross, 
late of Appleb}', and is the fruit of many j'ears of patient and 
assiduous labour. Not only is the Collection intrinsically 
excellent, but as representative of the Palaeontology of a neigh¬ 
bouring county it acquires an additional interest tor a Yorkshire 
Societv. 
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Mr. Joseph Powmtree has presented to the Society a series of 
cores from the w'ell-boring made on the premises of the Cocoa 
Works on Haxby Poad. As this boring wall be referred to at 
some length elsewhere it is unnecessary to make any further 
particular mention of it here. It will be sulfieient to point out 
the great value of such borings. ^JJie enoriuous additions made 
to our knowledge of detailed stratigraphy by the inspection of 
Pailway cuttings wull be in the memory of many geologists; 
it is perhaps not too much to expect that the boring wull give 
the geologists of the future the same advantage over those of 
to-day that the Pail way cutting gave them over their prede¬ 
cessors with the quarry. 
The Rev. Canon Paine, the Pev. AV. C, Hey, Mr. J. F. 
AAalker and several other donors have also increased the 
Collection b}’ some useful donations. 
