REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YOEKSHIEE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
Feb. 3 , 1863 . 
In bringing before the Annual Meeting the Eeport of the 
Yorkshire Philosophical Society for the past year, the Council 
beg to congratulate the Members upon the Institution having 
now attained the fortieth year of its existence. To those who 
remember its foundation the retrospect must be gratifying, 
whilst its present prospects afford ample evidence of public 
approbation and zeal in the pursuit of knowledge, and confirm 
the hope that the Institution will always receive that support 
which for so long a period has enabled it to render good service 
to the cause of Science. 
Following the ordinary course the Council will first record 
the operations of the Society for the past year, and then set 
forth the Financial Statement. 
The additions to the Geological Collection during the past 
year have not been numerous, and none of them call for special 
mention, with the exception of two series of Animal Eemains 
from the Coal Measures of North Staffordshire and South York¬ 
shire, presented to the Society by the Eev. William Vernon 
Harcourt and John Bainbridge, Esq. These specimens, many 
of which are of great beauty, will assist greatly in filling up 
one of the most defective portions of our Collection of Fossils. 
