COUNCIL FOR 1849. 15 



111 consequence of friendly overtures the Council have 

 entered upon negociations with the Corporation, with a view 

 to the absolute purchase of certain portions of the Society's 

 grounds, which are held from year to year under that body, and 

 also of other Corporation property, closely adjacent to the 

 Museum Gardens. Believing that it would be for the interests 

 of the Society to carry out the negociations which have been 

 commenced, the Council will be prepared, under the sanction of 

 this meeting, to make such arrangements as may be necessary 

 for the purpose. 



The Council have now finished their detailed review of the 

 principal events of the year 1849. They repeat their conviction 

 that the retrospect is cheering and gives assurance for the 

 future. On the one hand, great and permanent improvements 

 have been satisfactorily efiected, to the completion of which 

 obstacles of no ordinary character had long presented them- 

 selves ; and on the other, in the formation of the Antiquarian, and 

 Naturalists' Clubs, and the British Natural-History Society, (and 

 their friendly and beneficial alliance with the Yorkshire Philo- 

 sophical Society,) in the splendid donations received during 

 the past year, and in the increased zeal and activity of many 

 valued members, they feel that an unusual stimulus has been 

 given towards promoting the objects of the Society, which, they 

 trust, leaves no doubt as to the success of its future career. 



