REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



OF THE 



YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 



Feb. 6th, 1855. 



The Report which the Council have now to lay before the 

 Annual Meeting, though not in all respects so favourable as 

 that of the preceding year, nevertheless presents no features 

 which ought to create misgiving as to the stability and per- 

 manent well-doing of the Society. The additions to the 

 collections possess considerable interest, and the number of 

 visitors to the gardens remains undiminished, except by the 

 absence of excursion trains, which have during the past year 

 afforded no influx of strangers. The only discouraging feature 

 in the condition of the Society is the small number of new 

 members who have been recently admitted. To this circum- 

 stance reference will be made in a later part of the Report. 



Many valuable additions have been made during the past 

 year to the Collections in Natural History. 



During a visit to Ely in the summer, the Keeper of the 

 Museum purchased a very interesting series of Saurian Bones 

 and Teeth from the Kimmeridge Clay of that neighbourhood, 

 including remains of three genera. Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus 

 and Pliosaurus. The teeth of the last named genus, of which 

 there are several in the Collection, are very peculiar, and they 

 form an important acquisition, no other examples probably 

 existing in the Museums of the North of England. Accom- 

 panying these Saurian remains were many specimens of the 



