REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YOEKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
Feb. 7th, 1871. 
The Council of tlie Yorkshire Philosophical Society in 
presenting their Annual Eeport for the year 1870, are happy 
to announce to the Members of the Society the present state 
of the progress of the Society, which they hope will be 
found to be the result of an anxious endeavour to further the 
special scientific objects for which the Society was founded, 
whilst promoting in respect of its Finances a judicious 
economy. 
For the past five years the Treasurer’s Balance Sheet, 
appended to each Annual Beport, has disclosed the fact that 
the debt due to the Treasurer had increased from £272 in the 
year 1865 to the sum of £352 in the year 1869; whilst in 
the latter year the total expenditure in respect of Salaries paid 
to the Officers of the Society was below the average by a 
sum of £100. 
At the commencement of the past year the Council ap¬ 
pointed a Committee to consider the best means of economising 
the income of the Society. 
In their Eeport to the Council the Committee drew special 
attention to the fact that the expenses in respect of wages to 
gardeners and labourers, and of plants, had increased from 
£154 in the year 1859, to the sum of £270 in the year 1869, 
whilst from the special circumstances of the case increasing 
claims were made upon the income of the Society. 
