REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
Feb. 1st, 1870. 
The Council in presenting their Report for the year 1869, 
are enabled to lay before the Members a gratifying account of 
the prosperity of the Society. Although the Treasurer’s 
Statement does not disclose so satisfactory a resrdt as those of 
recent years, a debt of £110 Os. 6d. having been incurred in 
respect of the year’s expenditure, the Council are able to 
explain that this increase of the debt does not arise from loss of 
income, but from outlay upon objects of a permanent character. 
Of this sum £40 has been expended in the repair of the Roman 
Pavement in the Hospitium, injured by the inundations of the 
River Ouse in 1868, and in preventing a recurrence of the 
damage. A new edition of the Ouide to the Antiquities 
(kindly superintended through the press by the Reverend J. 
Kenrick) has cost upwards of £35, which will be repaid to the 
Society with profit on the sale. The new cases which have 
been provided for the display of the Natural History Speci¬ 
mens referred to in the Reports of the respective Curators, and 
the preparation of a new Catalogue to the Library, have 
incurred a cost of upwards of £44. 
The Treasurer’s Statement will be appended to the Report. 
The Curator of the Antiquarian Department reports :— 
In the Antiquarian Department the most valuable addition, 
which the Society has received in the course of the last year, 
has been the donations of Flint Implements by Mr. Barugh, 
