only to the lovers of science, but to all who admire 

 the works of nature, and feel an interest in the 

 productions of remote ages, and of distant parts 

 of the world. 



Your Council regret to state, that no improve- 

 ment has taken place in the lecturing department 

 of the Society's operations. In the month of May, 

 Dr. Young delivered two Lectures on Animal 

 Physiology, intended as an introduction to a 

 course of Lectures on Natural History ; but the 

 attendance was not such as to encourage him to 

 proceed with the course which he had in view. 

 During the present month, he has given three 

 Lectures, on the principal subjects brought before 

 the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, at their recent Meeting in York; and 

 the attendance on these was not much larger. 

 The depression in trade, alluded to in last Report, 

 still retards the progress of the Society in this 

 department ; and the Council has been under the 

 necessity of declining the proposals of more than 

 one Lecturer, who wished to give a course in 

 connection with our Institution. 



Notwithstanding these discouraging circum- 

 stances, we may confidently anticipate an in- 

 creased attention to scientific pursuits. The 

 recent Meeting of the British Association will 

 naturally serve to give an impulse to the ope- 

 rations, not only of the Yorkshire Philosophical 

 Society, but of all the Philosophical Societies in 



