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accordingly delivered four evening lectuies in successive weeks 

 in the months of October and November. The numerous 

 attendance, which continued undiminished to the close, attested 

 the interest excited by the subject and the ability and success 

 with which it was treated by the I^ecturer. The Museum was 

 lighted up for the inspection of the audience at the close of 

 each lecture, and one evening was specially devoted by the 

 Curators of the several departments of Natural History to the 

 illustration of the collections under their charge. The Council 

 look forward with pleasure to the frequent employment of the 

 beautiful theatre of the Museum, for the purpose of scientific 

 instruction. Mr. Procter has commenced a course of Four 

 Lectures on Water, the Atmosphere and their constituents, with 

 illustrative experiments ; other members have promised their 

 assistance, and Mr. Charlesworth is prepared to proceed at the 

 direction of the Council with further lectures in his own branch 

 of science. 



The Treasurer's Report shews an excess of £52. 18s. in this 

 year's expenditure above the receipts, which is to be added to 

 the simi of £56 lis. lid. due to the Treasurer in January, 1855. 

 The receipts at the gate, which have varied in the course of the 

 last ten years between £148 and £212 (not including the 

 year of the Agricultural Meeting)^ amount this year to £160. 

 The receipts from the swimming bath, from the sale of the 

 descriptive account of the Antiquities and the hire of the tent, 

 exhibit an increase compared with last year. The general 

 financial result would have been much more favourable, but for 

 the heavy items of the cost of the Second Part of the Proceed- 

 ings, the repairs and painting of the Museum and Cottages in 

 Marygate, and the repairs of the House occupied by Major 

 Mein, amounting together to upwards of £170. It must also 

 be observed that the entrance fee being now spread over three 

 years, the Society will not have derived, till 1857, the whole 

 benefit of the admissions which have taken place in 1855. 

 Although the balance due to the Treasurer, therefore, is large, 

 the Council hope that they shall be able to restore the 

 equilibriirai of receipts and expenditure, without neglecting 

 any of the great objects for the promotion of which the York- 

 shire Philosophical Society was established. 



