REPORT 



THE COUNCIL. 



In presenting the Report of the proceedings of the York- 

 shire Philosophical Society in 1834, the Council are happy to 

 assure the Annual Meeting that the hopes and expectations of 

 former years have been in a considerable degree realized in 

 the last ; — the accommodations in the Museum have been 

 greatly augmented; the collections have been enlarged and 

 enriched ; the extraordinary expenses of the Institution may 

 be considered as terminated, and the Society in consequence 

 is advanced to a point from which its friends may look back 

 with satisfaction on the progress it has made, and forward 

 with confidence to a steady career of usefulness. 



Wholly dependent on the public favour for the means 

 of erecting a spacious building on a beautiful site, and of 

 maintaining a suitable scientific establishment, it is highly 

 gratifying to find proof of the continued attachment of its 

 many friends, in the still unexhausted supply of new Dona- 

 tions to various departments of the JVIuseum and Library, 

 and to know that the time is arrived when they may be 

 more than ever turned to the advantage of the general 

 student, and to the special illustration of the Natural History 

 and Antiquities of Yorkshire. 



The well-stored Museum of Organic Remains has been 

 made more complete by the addition of a series of specimens 



