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ciety will be in possession of all the means of arranging these 

 interesting and useful exhibitions, with comparatively small 

 expense except in the prizes, which may thus be made even 

 more worthy of the gratifying competition already excited by 

 these meetings. 



Such are the principal facts, from which and the Treasurer's 

 accounts appended, the members wilU earn the state and pro- 

 spects of the Institution. On a review of their proceedings, 

 the Council see no reason to fear that the Annual Meeting 

 will impute to them either neglect of their interests, or a need- 

 less extravagance in performing their commands. It has not 

 been in the power of the Council to appropriate any funds to 

 the purchase of Books or specimens of Natural History : the 

 extension of the Garden, the Reparation of the Hospitium, 

 the repairs and new constructions in the Museum, have left 

 only the means of securing some of the rich remains of 

 Eburacum which have been excavated in our sight, and which 

 but for this timely effort might have been wholly lost to the 

 City which ought to feel a more than common interest in 

 every fragment of the arts of its once imperial owners. 



If however the members shall now deem these spacious 

 grounds sufficiently extended, and shall again turn their prin- 

 cipal attention to that which should ever be the characteristic 

 feature of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, the Museum 

 of Natural History and Antiquities, and direct to this one 

 channel the slender stream which is at our command, the 

 blank spaces in our cabinets may be speedily filled, and these 

 rooms become in every respect what they were intended to be, 

 entirely worthy of the great patronage to which we owe the 

 Edifice and the Grounds which belong to us, worthy of our 

 own reputation, and the objects for which we were associated 

 together. 



