REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



OF THE 



YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCETY, 



Feb. 2, 1858. 



The Report for the year 1857, which the Council now 

 present to the Members of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 

 will show that during t^je past year, the objects for the 

 promotion of which the Society was instituted have been 

 steadily pursued. Additions of great permanent value and 

 extent have been made to its Collections, and the number of its 

 Members has been considerably increased. 



At the Monthly Meeting in April last, Mr. AUis, the 

 Curator of Comparative Anatomy, called the attention of the 

 members to the recent discovery of a very remarkable specimen 

 of the Ichthyosaurus Platyodon in the lias of Whitby, and 

 urged that it should not be allowed to go out of the County of 

 York, or pass into any private collection, but be secured for the 

 Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. This sugges- 

 tion having been enforced by Professor Phillips, a subscription 

 was begun for its purchase ; but its prosecution was rendered 

 unnecessary by the liberality of the Rev. Danson Richardson 

 Roundell, who presented the Society with £110, the price 

 ultimately fixed by the discoverers. The Keeper of the 

 Museum, Mr. Charlesworth, who had exerted himself greatly 

 in procuring this specimen for the Society, and had taken on 



