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This expense, though heavy, the Council feel assured will 

 not be thought too great for the completion of, what they 

 conceive to have been justly estimated as, a most desirable and 

 effective improvement. 



The only other item of extraordinary expense the Council 

 have to notice, is one of £128 17s. 2d. for cases required in 

 fitting up the room in the Museum dedicated to " The Rudstone 

 Collection of British Birds,"'' towards which the Society are 

 indebted to William Rudston Read, Esq., for a very liberal 

 contribution of 50 guineas, thus enhancing the value of his 

 former munificent donation of the collection itself. 



Three associations of a scientific character, which have been 

 formed in York during the past year, call for especial notice on 

 the part of the Council, aiming, as they do, at co-operation 

 with this Society, though wholly supported by independent 

 funds. One of these, the " Yorkshire Naturalists' Club," origin- 

 ated in the wish to bring into more general communication 

 with one another the working naturalists of the whole County 

 of York. This Club holds periodical meetings for the exhibi- 

 tion of specimens, and for the discussion of subjects relating to 

 the Natural-History of the county, and the funds at the disposal 

 of the Committee are in part applied to the purchase of 

 desiderata for the difierent Museums of Yorkshire, that of York 

 taking precedence as the County Museum. 



A second association has been established in York, under the 

 denomination of the " Yorkshire Antiquarian Club," which 

 binds itself by its first rule to have no private collection, but to 

 deposit the specimens, given to or discovered by it, in the 

 Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society ; it being the 

 principal object of the Club to make researches by opening 

 barrows and other earth-works, and examining any of the 

 remains of antiquity so abundantly spread over various parts of 

 the County. 



The third, under the denomination of the " British Natural- 

 History Society," though not confining its investigations to 

 this County, still, from its having originated with The Keeper of 

 this Society's Museum, and from the benefits which it is likely 

 to confer not only on the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, but on 



