of Lectures on the sciences of Geology * and Chemistry t 

 have been delivered on the Society's account, and 

 a tliird on Zoology^ under its patronage, which have 

 been attended in a manner corresponding with the anticipa- 

 tions expressed in the last Report, and displaying that 

 eagerness for scientific information which had been hoped 

 for from the public, and which it is one of the principal 

 objects of the Society to gratify and encourage. || In the 

 arrangements for these Lectures very considerable embarrass- 

 ment was experienced, from the want of rooms adapted to 

 the purpose of their delivery ; but, even under this dis- 

 advantage, tlie profit derived from them, amounting to about 

 Forty Pounds, has been sufficient to show that, if a proper 

 Lecture Room should be built, the Lectures might reasonably 

 be expected to pay the interest of the money laid out upon 

 the building. The Council however submit to the Society, 

 that it would be an object worthy of the county of York, to 

 lend to an institution of this nature, a support which might 

 render such a speculation unnecessary. They have some 

 reason to believe, that a site for a Philosophical Establish- 

 ment may be obtained on terms of the most liberal kind ; 

 a subscription of Three Thousand Pounds would be sufficient 

 to raise a building that would comprise both an adequate 

 Lecture Room and an extended Museum ; and the 

 Society has already proved, during the two years which 

 it has existed, how capable it is of storing such a building 



• By Mr. W. Smith. + By Messrs. West and George, t By Dr. Harwood, F.L.S. 



(1 Gratuitous admission to the Chemical course, was given by the Council to 

 several ingenious Artisans and Mechanics, who had expressed a wish to benefit by 

 these Lectures. 



