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Stamp Brooksbank, Esq., it has been presented to the Museum 

 of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 



The Descriptive Account of the Antiquities in the grounds 

 of the Museum has been recently completed and published by 

 the learned Curator (Mr. Wellbeloved), and has been welcomed 

 not only by Members of the Society but by numerous visitors, 

 in a manner indicating a due appreciation of its interesting 

 and valuable details. 



The Council cannot leave this subject without expressing 

 their deep sense of the obligation the Society is under, for the 

 labour and research bestowed upon this work ; which so greatly 

 enhances the interest and value of the Antiquarian objects in 

 the Society's possession, and which, from the liberality of the 

 Author in kindly placing the profit arising from the sale of the 

 work at the disposal of the Council, promises, in a pecuniary 

 point of view, to be a donation to the Society of much import- 

 ance. 



A further contribution to the Natural History and Antiquities 

 of Yorkshire has proceeded from the pen of Professor Phillips, 

 who has added to his well-known Geological works, an illus- 

 trated volume of descriptions, entitled " The Rivers, Moun- 

 tains, and Sea Coast of Yorkshire." The objects contemplated 

 by the author of this volume are exactly those which the 

 Society labours to advance, and the Council report with pleasure 

 that several communications having the same tendency, which 

 have been read to the Monthly Meetings, are now under the 

 consideration of a Committtee, for publication in the Transac- 

 tions of the Society. 



The Society has received a very valuable Collection of Plants 

 from Messrs. Standish and Noble, during the past year, besides 

 some minor donations from other parties. 



The work of the Observatory has been continued, and some 

 part of the plans sanctioned by the Council for increasing its 

 utility has been performed. There is, however, as yet no 

 registration of Wind, and some further steps are requisite to 

 complete the desired daily information on the changes of tem- 

 perature and moisture. 



