YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 



PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING, FEB. 5, 1839. 



The Council of the Yorkshire Philosojihical Society are 

 happy in assuring the Annual Meeting that the past year 

 has been productive of circumstances very favourable to the 

 enlargement of scientific tastes and popular gratification, 

 among the members and friends of the Institution. The 

 improvements of the Museum have been materially advanced ; 

 the Library and Antiquarian departments have received con- 

 siderable additions ; the Garden is enriched with many new 

 plants, and has been selected for the estabUshment of an 

 exhibition of fruits and flowers under the best auspices and 

 with the fullest success. 



Nor will the spirit of improvement be suffered to languish 

 for want of new objects. Plans are in progress by which it is 

 hoped some of the remaining fragments of our monastic 

 edifices may not only be preserved from entire decay, but 

 restored in a substantial form, for purposes of acknow- 

 ledged utility. For the execution of these plans, — for the 

 continuation of certain regulations regarding the admission of 

 visitors, — and for some useful modifications of particular laws, 

 the sanction of this Annual Meeting will be asked, after the 

 members shall have heard a faithful statement of the present 

 condition of the Society's affairs. 



