YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, ON THE 6th OF FEBRUARY, 1844. 



The Council, acting under the direction of the last Annual 

 Meeting, repeated the invitation from the Yorkshire PhilosophiceJ 

 Society to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 when assembled at Cork, to hold its next Meeting in this City ; and 

 they have great pleasure in announcing that the invitation was 

 accepted, and that the Society will, in September next, again 

 have the honour of witnessing, within the City of York, the 

 assembling of that learned body. This event, so earnestly desired 

 by the Council, must necessarily have a most beneficial influence 

 on this Society, by stimulating its members to renewed exertion, 

 and thus raising it to a still more elevated position in the scale of 

 science and utility. 



To render the Museum as attractive as possible, and interesting 

 to the numerous scientific visitors who may be expected to attend 

 the meeting, the Council have considered it highly important to 

 complete, as far as possible, the arrangement of the different 

 Collections previous to the month of September. For this purpose, 

 several alterations in the interior of the Museum have become 

 necessary, more particularly the re-opening the communication 

 between the Library and the late Mineralogical Room, and the 

 completing the side cases in that Room, for the reception of the 

 splendid Collection of Comparative Osteology, which is at present 

 so imperfectly exhibited. It has also been determined to place 

 drawers underneath the new centre cases in the Geological Room, 

 for the arrangement of the Foreign and British Rock Specimens, 

 which will thus be easily referred to ; and to fit up the spare Room 



