REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 



AT THE 



CLOSE OF THE NINETEENTH SESSION. 



It is a source of much pleasure to the Council of 

 the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, that in 

 presenting the Annual Report at the close of the Nine- 

 teenth Session, they are enabled to congratulate its 

 Members upon the improved condition of the Institution. 

 It has too frequently happened in past years, that the 

 retiring Council could do little more than report the 

 Society, if not actually in a declining state, at least in a 

 not very flourishing and active one ; during the year just 

 closed, however, increased activity has prevailed in all 

 the Society's concerns. 



At the termination of the last session there remained 

 on the ordinary account a balance due to the Treasurer 

 amounting to the sum of £^24 14s. 5 id. ; this debt, 

 which had gradually augmented, had been for long a 

 cause of much regret to many Members, as it prevented 

 the expenditure of even small sums for any other pur- 

 poses, however desirable in themselves they might be, 

 than those which were absolutely essential to the carrying 



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