REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THU 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
February 2nd, 1886. 
The Council now present to the Members of the Yorkshire 
Philosophical Society their Annual Report for the year 1885. 
The financial department of the Society will he referred to 
first in the Report, and then, according to usual custom, the 
state of the various scientific departments will he brought 
before the notice of the meeting. 
It is a matter of regret that the income of the Society 
affords strong evidence of tlie continuance of the agricultural 
and commercial depression referred to in the last Report. 
The total income of the Society for the present year com¬ 
pared with the previous year shows a loss of income of 
£52 11s. 2d., chiefly to he accounted for by a falling off 
in the number of members elected during the year and a 
decrease of £27 in the receipts at the Grate. 
The total income of the Society for the year has been 
£1,268 Is. Od., whilst the expenditure has amounted to 
£1,260 11s. lOd., leaving for the year an excess of income 
over expenditure of £7 9s. 2d This amount, carried 
forward, reduces the small balance due to the Treasurer on 
the previous year’s account to £9 13s- 4d. The Council 
consider this result highly satisfactory, when the fact is 
taken into account that the large sum of £197 11s. Od. 
has been paid to the Yorkshire Insurance Company by way 
of a terminable annuity, which will extinguish the whole of 
