Whilst alluding to the Debt of the Society, the 

 Council feel that it is but justice to themselves to refer 

 to the items of Expenditure, by which it will be appa- 

 rent that no lavish or needless appropriation of th^ 

 Funds has taken place, but that the annual expenditure 

 has not increased in any material item, except that the 

 gradually increasing importance of the Museum, both in 

 regard to its extent and the number of visitors, occasion- 

 ing a corresponding outlay, the constant services of an 

 attendant have been absolutely required, which until the 

 last two or three years was not thought necessary, while 

 the income of the Society has not increased in propor- 

 tion, but, on the contrary, has decreased by the decease 

 and removal of Members. 



The Council have great pleasure in reporting, that 

 during the Session, an arrangement has been made with 

 the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West- 

 Riding of Yorkshire, by which its Museum, particularly 

 valuable as illustrative of the Coal formation, will be de- 

 posited in the room of this Society lately appropriated 

 for Antiquities, — these will be advantageously placed in 

 other parts of the building. In the first instance, this 

 will occasion some little outlay of money, but as the 

 Geological and Polytechnic Society agreed to pay an 

 annual rental of £30, this arrangement will doubtless 

 ultimately prove of pecuniary advantage to both Socie- 

 ties, in addition to that increased value and attraction 

 which the united Museums will possess over either sepa- 

 rately. 



