COUNCIL FOR 1860. 
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Mr. T. S. Noble, to obtain furtber subscriptions, and with such 
success that an additional sum of £86 8s. was actually obtained, 
making with the subscriptions previously promised, a total of 
£990 14s. The total cost of the new huilding, with its 
internal fittings, as at present standing, is shewn, by an 
account now rendered, to be £1,374 15s. 9d., leaving a sum of 
£384 Is. 9d. due by the Society. Although the Council have 
not renounced the hope that a part of this debt will be liqui¬ 
dated by subscriptions, yet, under the circumstances, they pro¬ 
pose to transfer the balance now standing to the debit of the 
Museum Enlargement Fund in the Bankers’ books, to the 
debit of the Society’s General Account, and to pay all further 
expenses connected with the new rooms out of the ordinary 
funds of the Society. When the above transfer is efiected the 
Society’s Account will show a balance of £227 16s. 5d. on the 
debit side, instead of one of £156 5s. 4d. due to the Society by 
the Treasurer. 
A Meeting of Delegates from the principal Philosophical 
Societies of Yorkshire was held in the Library of this Institu¬ 
tion in the month of April last. At this Meeting the objects to 
be attained by the Assembly of Delegates were laid down with 
more precision than at former Meetings, and it w^as arranged 
that an attempt should be made to obtain the services of one 
or two distinguished scientific men to deliver lectures to the 
associated Societies. This attempt has failed for the present 
session, but it is hoped that by the adoption of a different 
system a more satisfactory result may be attained next winter. 
The influence of these Meetings upon the study of science in 
Yorkshire, by promoting a spirit of co-operation amongst the 
scientific men residing in different localities, and enabling the 
associated Societies mutually to assist each other by exchanges 
of papers, lectures, and specimens, will be tested at the 
Meeting to be held at Leeds in the month of April next. 
Of the additions to the Library —the only one that calls for 
special notice is the magnificent present made to the Society 
by Robert Prescott, Esq., of a fine copy of the celebrated 
“Encyclopedic” of Diderot and D’Alembert, a work of histo¬ 
rical importance, from the great influence wdiich the opinions 
