16 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The unavoidably increased ordinary expenditure conse- 

 quent upon an extension of the grounds, has demanded the 

 strictest economy in the management of the Society's finances. 

 The Council have therefore steadily refused to sanction any 

 expenditure for the increase of its collections, beyond that 

 for which it was already pledged ; preferring to direct atten- 

 tion to the effective arrangement and display of the various 

 departments of the Museum, so as to enable the Members and 

 Visitors to draw from them the full amount of pleasure and in- 

 struction which they are calculated to afford. 



The receipts have thus fully equalled the current expenditure 

 of the Society, though they have fallen very far short of the 

 extraordinary expenses of the year. This deficiency was, how- 

 ever, in a great measure anticipated in the report of the Council 

 to the last Annual Meeting, with the exception of the outlay in 

 the purchase of Mr. Cayley's house. 



This excess of expenditure has been met by the loan of £1000 

 from the Yorkshire Insurance Company, before alluded to, and 

 by the bankers having allowed the Society to overdraw its 

 account during the year to the extent of about £700. 



Though the debt of the Society is thus increased, the Council 

 see no reason to be discouraged. They anticipate that the 

 growing taste for Natural History and Antiquities within the 

 county will attract Members to a Society established with a 

 view of encouraging such pursuits, and which has not permitted 

 the quarter of a century of its existence to pass away without 

 leaving some durable monuments of its utility. 



