THE COUNCIL. J 



any considerable portion of the annual funds be reserved for 

 tbe diminution of the debt. It must also be remembered 

 that some of our cases are filled by specimens which are not, 

 but ought to be, the property of the Society, and that a certain 

 annual charge or a considerable present advance will be re- 

 quured for the purchase of them. 



But these requirements have been foreseen, and contem- 

 plated without alarm, and encouraged by the assistance re- 

 ceived this year from the President and Miss Currer — by the 

 proceeds from the tickets of admission — by the advantageous 

 purchase from the Crown, — and above all, by the conscious- 

 ness that greater difficulties than these have been overcome 

 when the Society was less prepared to meet them than now it 

 is, the Council hopes that this Meeting will be of opinion 

 that the affairs of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, though 

 demanding every proper attention to economy, should still 

 be conducted with that liberal regard to the dignity of the 

 Institution and the interests of natural science, which offers 

 the greatest attraction to new Members, and lays the surest 

 claim to the patronage of the community. 



CTENACANTHUS TENUISTRIATUS, 

 From the Mountain Limestone of Skropsliira, 

 Presented by the Rev. T. Lewis. 



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