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aid, and has kindly put into their hands for the use of the 

 Society, fifty copies of a very interesting and instructive topo- 

 graphical map, illustrating the ancient roads and earth-works 

 near Langton, in the East Riding of this county. 



The Council have the gratification to state that the arrange- 

 ments for the proper employment of the valuable instruments 

 presented by Dr. Pearson are complete, and that a Committee 

 of observers has been appointed, who have entered on their 

 work with a zeal and perseverance which it may be hoped will 

 make this establishment not only useful in its immediate neigh- 

 bourhood, but also of service to the general progress of astro- 

 nomy. The subscriptions for the Observatory have fallen 

 considerably short of the cost of its construction ; but the 

 Committee hope that the deficiency may yet be supplied by 

 additional contributions. 



It is proper to mention that the current expenses of this 

 and the other Committees for science and antiquities, appointed 

 by the Council, are not charged in the Account of the Insti- 

 tution. 



On the state of the Society's finances the Council have to 

 remark that during the past year they have succeeded, with- 

 out much inconvenience, in reducing the expenditure to about 

 £.^0 less than the income, and that the result of their 

 efforts would have appeared still more favourable but for the 

 serious damage done to the building by the late violent storms. 

 In the expenses of the year occur some items which will not 

 be repeated, and some charges which may be yet further 

 slightly diminished. The Council have not formed this 

 opinion lightly, or upon a cursory investigation. They have 

 already proposed an arrangement by which, without any in- 

 jury to the utility of the establishment, and without unreason- 

 able burden on the officers, some real saving may. be effected 



