REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 



AT THE 



CLOSE OF THE FIFTEENTH SESSION. 



With the Meeting at which the OflScers and 

 Council present this Report, the Leeds Philosophical 

 AND Literary Society closes its Fifteenth Session: 

 a Session by no means unmarked with occurrences of 

 that peaceful interest which characterizes the annals 

 of science; but at the same time presenting certain 

 new and striking peculiarities which demand the most 

 serious consideration of the members of every class, 

 since it cannot be concealed that they materially affect 

 the future prospects of this Institution. 



In the first place, the Society will learn with 

 regret, that the progressive improvement in their 

 finances, which of late years has been frequently an- 

 nounced by retiring Councils, has not continued dur- 

 ing the present year : on the contrary, whilst the Pro- 

 prietary debt goes on gradually increasing, as it must 

 still do, unless some extraordinary means be adopted 

 for its liquidation ; — the ordinary account also exhibits 

 a balance of £154. 17s. 9^^. due to the Treasurer, 

 being an increase of £44. 7s. 74d. since May, 1834. 

 A reference to the Treasurer's account will shew that 



