COUNCIL FOR 1841. 9 



to appoint a meeting in Yorkshire for 1843, and to make 

 choice of the City of York for the place of assembly, has been 

 adopted by the Council, and will be brought regularly before 

 it at the close of this address ; and the Council have already 

 taken steps to* ascertain what degree of cooperation for the 

 attainment of this object may be expected from the other 

 Philosophical Institutions of the County. It ought by no 

 means to be the desire of the Society that the Association 

 should be welcomed to York with unnecessary parade or lavish 

 expenditure, but the members will naturally demand for this 

 national scientific assembly such preparations as its scientific 

 objects require. 



They will also inquire whether the state of our Museum, 

 and the general conduct of our establishment, are such as to 

 fit them for a second inspection by such a body of Naturalists 

 and Philosophers, and, if any deficiencies are observed in any 

 department, what are the measures proposed by the Council 

 to remedy them. 



By the attention of the Curators the Museum is placed in 

 a condition to deserve more than a cursory examination ; it 

 is rich in the treasures of nature and the monuments of art ; 

 but it still labours under deficiency of means for proper dis- 

 play and orderly arrangement of the valuable donations which 

 continue to be received from near and distant friends. The 

 duties connected with the classification and conservation of 

 the numerous specimens of Natural History and Antiquities 

 have been performed, in many respects, to the satisfaction of 

 the Society ; and if some part of these collections remains 

 in an incomplete or unarranged state, this is not owing to any 

 remissness of the several gentlemen to whose care they are 

 entrusted, but to the actual want of space for suitable dis- 

 tribution of the objects. 



The collection of Organic Remains has been entirely re- 



