COUNCIL FOR 1862. 
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£180 Is. Td., against £195 11s. 4d. in 1861, and the latter 
only £72 5s. lid., or but £7 8s. 4d. more than the expenses. 
The decrease in the amount received at the Gates may be 
accounted for, partly by the distress which has existed in some 
of the manufacturing districts, preventing the visits of excur¬ 
sionists to York, but chiefly by the attraction of many people 
to London by the Exhibition. 
The new Tent, purchased in 1861, has been lent out several 
times, and produced the sum of £26 10s.*; thus, with the £9 
received in 1861, repaying more than one-third of its purchase- 
money in a year and a half. 
The Total Income from all sources, including arrears, is 
£1190 17s. 4d., being about £10 less than that of 1861. 
The Expenditure of the year 1862 calls for little remark; it 
is of about the averag^e amount, and consists of the usual items. 
The only point which seems to require explanation is the charge 
of £29 17s. 2d., for alterations in the cases containing the 
Bird Skeletons, and for cleaning the Skeletons. The beautiful 
Collection of Skeletons of Birds, prepared with so much labour 
by our Vice-President, Mr. Allis, and regarded by most scientific 
visitors to our Museum as one of the most valuable portions of 
its contents, had for some years been much impaired, chiefly 
owing to the imperfect construction of the case containing it. 
As the only means of preventing the access of dust to the 
specimens, the Council ordered a wooden back for the case, 
and the insertion of this furnished an opportunity of making 
other improvements in its fittings. The specimens have been 
carefully cleaned and re-arranged in the case, and the improve¬ 
ment in their appearance, which the Council hope may be a 
permanent one, is certainly well worth the money expended on 
them. 
The Total Expenditure of the year is £1119 18s. lid., 
leaving an excess of Income of £70 18s. 5d., which reduces the 
balance against the Society to £333 17s. 8d. 
The number of Lectures delivered in the Theatre of the 
Museum during the year 1862 was eleven. For three of these 
* Of this sum £12 are still unpaid; the amount placed at the credit of the 
Society’s account is therefore only £14 10s, 
