REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



OF THE 



YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 



Feb. 1851. 



The period has now arrived, when, in the annual course of 

 events, it becomes the duty of the Council to report, to this 

 Meeting, the proceedings of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society 

 during the year 1850. 



The Council are glad to state that, upon a review of the past 

 year, the Society is still advancing in its career of usefulness, 

 and that while there will be occasion to notice the attainment 

 of much that was desirable in several departments of the 

 Institution, some important improvements in the grounds have 

 been completed, and the Council have the satisfaction of leaving 

 the finances of the Society in a better state than at the com- 

 mencement of the past year. It is gratifying to the Council to 

 be able to report additions to the Collections of Natural History 

 and Antiquities by the process of donation, to which the Society 

 has been accustomed for more than a quarter of century to 

 look, with well grounded confidence, as the principal means of 

 improving its Museum. Of these additions several deserve 

 especial notice. From Thos. S. Rudd, Esq., of Redcar, 

 has been received the whole of the British Insects, with the 

 exception of the Lepidoptera, which were collected by his 

 brother, the late Rev. G. T. Rudd, M. A., well known as one 

 of the leading British Entomologists. This extensive collection 

 consists chiefly of Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera, of 

 which three orders it contains several thousand specimens. 



