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valuable ; and the Council, encouraged by the admission of many now members, 

 had ventured to add a considerable number of specimens by purchase on favourable 

 terms. The collection of quadrupeds now amounts to 120 ; of birds, 1,200 ; an 

 entirely new arrangement of British insects has been begun ; the valuable 

 herbarium of the Society is in process of arrangement ; a small stove is being 

 constructed for the cultivation of tropical orchideous plants ; the Roman and 

 Monastic walls have been repaired ; and a most interesting addition made to the 

 antiquarian collections, in the cast of a Chaldean figure, sculptured on the rocks 

 of Beyrout, in Syria. More than eight hundred volumes have been given to the 

 library of the Society, by the late G. Hodgson, Esq., of Bridlington. The 

 Council proposes, ere long, to select for publication such parts of the many valuable 

 memoirs which have been read at the monthly meetings, as by their bearing on 

 the antiquities and Natural History of Yorkshire, appear worthy of being placed 

 in the hands of members, and offered to the public at a very moderate price. The 

 expenditure of the year has been great, yet in consequence of the addition of no 

 less than 22 new members during the year, and other favourable circumstances, 

 there is a balance in favour ot the Society, on the general account of the year, of 

 £86, and though the Manor Shore property has been a source of expense, above 

 the income derived from it, this cannot happen again. The Council has made 

 arrangements to purchase Mr.' Allis's beautiful collection of skeletons for the sum 

 of £350, of which no less than £230 has been already received by voluntary 

 subscription among the members, and the supply is not yet exhausted. It was 

 stated that some additional cases were required to contain the zoological collection, 

 and the meeting, after inspecting the treasurer's accounts, and hearing the ex- 

 planation of Professor Phillips, unanimously decided to authorize the Council 

 of the ensuing year to construct cases for the object proposed, to the extent 

 of £200. 



On the motion of the Rev. J. Graham, the report was unanimously adopted, 

 and ordered to be printed. 



Three important propositions were considered by the meeting — first, a plan for 

 the holding of horticultural exhibitions in the museum grounds, under the direction 

 of the Council ; secondly, a proposal to continue the regulation by which strangers 

 are admitted to the museum grounds ; thirdly, a proposal to authorize the Council 

 to open the grounds and museum on certain days of the year freely to all persons 

 whatsoever, without payment or requiring orders from members. All these 

 propositions, after having been fully discussed, were, with some verbal amend- 

 ments, adopted. Thus the facilities which the public already enjoy will be 

 considerably augmented, and the success of the Society, we trust, will be 

 promoted. 



The members then scrawled for the officers and Council for the ensuing year ; 



