THE COUNCIL. 



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Subscribers to the Building Fund, and a part still remain 

 to be disposed of. 



In passing from this report of the Society's scientific 

 proceedings and acquisitions, to its pecuniary accounts, it 

 is to be observed, in the first place, that the expectations not 

 only of convenience but of advantage from the new lecture 

 ROOM have been thus far realized, even though it was opened 

 in an unfinished state. After the usual salary of the lecturer 

 and the incidental expenses were paid, there remained to 

 the Society a profit of Fifteen Pounds : and, doubtless, if 

 accuracy of knowledge, if ardor for the sciences which he 

 teaches, and a happy talent for explaining them — if these 

 qualifications can ensure success to a lecturer, the lectures 

 of the Keeper of the Museum may always be expected to be 

 successful. It is not proposed, however, in future to look to 

 any profit to the Society from this source. Mr. Phillips will 

 deliver some lectures during the summer, on the economy 

 of the animal kingdom ; but the Council are desirous of 

 assigning to himself the whole of whatever emolument may be 

 derived from the course. The Curator of Botany has also 

 oflfered to favor the Society with a course of lectures on that 

 science, the produce of which will be appropriated to the 

 Garden Fund.* 



» The lamented death of Mr. E. S. George has deprived the Society of the 

 lectures announced in the last Report as designed for the benefit of the Laboratory. 

 Mr. George was an honorary member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 

 and honorary Curator of the Institution at Leeds. In him these societies have 

 prematurely lost an associate, not more distinguished for scientific acquirements 

 than for zeal in difi'using science, and for the modest, liberal^ and benignant 

 spirit of a true philosopher. 



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