yr SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT. 15 
The card of excursions for the coming summer will shortly be 
issued. There will be 6 excursions during the season, the opening 
one being at Garforth on Easter Monday, followed by a meeting in 
Leeds, to be held in the Picture Gallery of the Mechanics’ Institute, 
kindly granted for the purpose. 
LIBRARY. 
The Society’s Library has during the year been enriched by the 
renewed liberality of Mr. Fairfax Wooler. Copies of Bell’s British 
Quadrupeds, Selby’s British Forest Trees, and the 1st volume of 
Newton’s (fourth) edition of Yarrell’s British Birds, also Sheet 218 
of the six-inch-Geological Survey of the district have been purchased 
thereby. 
The thanks of the Society have been duly conveyed to Mr. Wooler 
for his generosity and the Council congratulate the members on the 
acquisition of such valuable works for reference at the meetings. 
THE LAWS. 
Ata special general meeting held on the 24th November last the 
whole of the then existing Laws ot the Society were repealed, and 
anew Code was substituted for them. A few changes were made at 
the time of the adoption of the new Code, which your Council be- 
lieve will be to the advantage of the Society. 
THE FINANCES. 
The Financial Statement, appended to this report, shows a Balance 
in favor of the Society of £4. 12. 0, all claims against the Society 
having been met. Your Council are of opinion that this state of 
affairs is the more satisfactory from the fact that the balance of 
45. 15. 1, with which the previous year closed included £5. 3. 0, 
of subscriptions for the present year paid in advance, while on the 
other hand there is not a single penny of the coming year’s income 
included in the balance now announced. 
ALTERATION OF MEETING-NIGHT. 
The Council beg to remind the members that the meeting-night 
has been changed to Tuesday, as the experience of the past year has 
shown that Wednesday is very inconvenient to many of the mem- 
bers. The Council trust that the members by their attendance 
will show the wisdom of this step, and the unadvisability of any 
' further change. 
