REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
Feb. 5 , 1861 . 
In their Report for the year I860, the Council of the 
Yorkshire Philosophical Society regret that they cannot con¬ 
gratulate the Memhers upon any increase in the prosperity of 
the Society, indeed, the Income, as shown by the Treasurer’s 
Account, has fallen considerably short of that of last year. 
Nevertheless, this diminution is so evidently due to a temporary 
cause, namely, the unprecedently inclement weather of the last 
summer, that the Council do not regard it as indicative of any 
permanent falling off in the resources of the Society, and can 
only look upon it as a matter of satisfaction that the deficiency 
thus caused was not far greater. 
A comparison of the Accounts for 1859 and 1860 shows that 
the income in the former year was £1,296 3s. 3d., whilst in 
the latter it amounted only to £1,231 12s. 5d., so that the 
total diminution of income is nearly £65. A single glance at 
the items of which the income is made up, shows that the 
principal deficiency is in the receipts at the Swimming Bath, 
which were only £71 6s. 8d. in 1860, against £148 11s. 2d. in 
1859, thus at once accounting for a diminution of £77 in the 
income, from a source which is peculiarly liable to fluctuate 
from variations in the state of the weather. 
