YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, ON THE 1st OF FEBRUARY, 1848. 



Few events of peculiar importance have occurred during the 

 past year to require prominent notice in the report of the 

 Council to the present Annual Meeting. 



The completion of the alterations connected with the enclo- 

 sure of the remains of St. Leonard's Hospital within the Society's 

 grounds and the entrance to the Gardens, has been again 

 deferred, in consequence of the plans of the Corporation with 

 regard to the improvements in the adjoining streets not being 

 definitively fixed, so as to admit of the proper levels and boun- 

 dary line being determined. 



In the Report presented to the last Annual Meeting, the 

 Council intimated that it would be the duty of their successors 

 to devise some plan for reviving the interest formerly taken by 

 the members of the Society in its scientific proceedings. As this 

 suggestion was favourably received by the Annual Meeting, the 

 present Council determined on making a trial of certain changes 

 regarding the Monthly Meetings. The hour at which they are 

 fixed by the Society's laws (One p. m.), appearing to be an in- 

 convenient one for a numerous attendance of Members, it was 

 resolved to try the experiment whether, by adjourning these 

 Meetings to an evening hour, a fuller attendance could be 

 obtained, by which means it was hoped that more encouragement 



