REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
Feb. 7, 1865. 
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Although with one exception the year 1864 has not been 
remarkable for the additions which it has brought to our 
Museum, it is, nevertheless, not without interest in the history 
of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. It has witnessed the 
acquisition by the Society of the remainder of the site of the 
Church of St. Mary’s Abbey, the visit of the Association for 
the Promotion of Social Science to York, and the publication 
for the benefit of the Society of Mr. Kenrick’s valuable volume 
of Historical and Archaeological Papers. 
Acting under the authority of a Pesolution passed at the last 
Annual Meeting of the Society, the Secretary succeeded early 
in the year in entering into an arrangement with the Committee 
of the School for the Blind, for obtaining that part of 
the site of the Abbey Church not abeady in the Society’s 
Grounds, in exchange for a corresponding portion of land in 
the orchard recently leased by the Society of the Crown. The 
necessary alterations in the boundaries were then made, and 
the result has been a great and interesting addition to the 
Gardens of the Society, accompanied by an equal improvement 
in the appearance of the north-western front of the Blind 
School. 
