YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 



PRESENTED TO THE ANNFAt MEETING, FEB. 4, 1840. 



The Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, on 

 presenting the Report of their Proceedings since the last 

 Annual Meeting, are desirous of directing the attention of 

 the Members to those drcumstances wMch mark the actual 

 state or indicate the future progress of the Institution. 



The Society includes at this moment three hundred and 

 twenty-nine subscribing Members ; a greater number than 

 was ever before registered on the books. During the past 

 year twenty-seven new Members have been elected, but we 

 have lost by death or removal nine. We have to record in 

 our list of departed friends and fellow-labourers twa of the 

 founders of the Society, whose names stand first on our roll 

 of Members, and whose rich collections from Kirkdale Cave, 

 were conspicuous among the earliest donations to the infaat 

 Museum. Mr. Atkinson and Mr. Salmond lived to see an 

 almost private Society expand into a Yorkshire Institution, 

 and a few specimens from one locality become surrounded by 

 many thousand objects, the various productions of distant 

 lands and seas. Yet amidst that large assemblage of the 

 diversified treasures of nature, the series of Kirkdale bones, 

 though filling but one of a hundred cases, is. still the centre 

 of strongest attraction, a cherished memorial of the men and 

 the jnotives which originated our Institution*. 

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