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REPORT OF THE 
loss of books may be prevented. The Council regret to state 
that a very considerable number of volumes is found to be 
wanting. They would respectfully call the attention of the 
Members to this fact also, with a view of recovering any that 
may by possibility have been mislaid among their own books, 
by those who have taken them out. 
A valuable addition to the Library has been made during 
the past year, through the kindness of Edward Hailstone, 
Esq., F.S.A. 
It will be remembered that this gentleman gave an interest¬ 
ing Lecture to the Members of our Society in the spring of last 
year, on the Portraits of the Yorkshire Worihies displayed in 
the Leeds Exhibition. At considerable cost the series of 
portraits there exhibited have been photographed, and the 
copies, together vdth a short memoir of each personage whose 
portrait was exhibited, have been published, and form two 
handsome volumes, a copy of which Mi\ Hailstone has 
presented to the Society. 
The Cui’ator of the Department of Ornithology reports 
that the Strickland Collection of British BLds, as well as the 
Pudston Collection, have been carefully inspected, and are in 
excellent order. The wooden boxes containing the Strickland 
Collection were found to be infested with the larvae of a wood 
eating insect (Anohium tessellatum), and the ravages thereby 
caused threatened much injury to the Collection by rendering 
the specimens easy of access to moths. All the specimens in 
this Collection have been subjected to special treatment by Mr. 
Baines, and where necessary entriely new cases have been 
supplied. The Cinutor suggests that it would be desiiuble to 
place these specimens in the Grallery, over the Samian Cases, 
as it is impossible, for want of room, to display the entire 
Collection in the British Bird Boom. 
The Cmntors of the Observatory repori the Instruments to 
be in good order, and that the true time has been acerbately 
kept by a series of observations during the past year. 
In the report of last year the Council briefly drew attention 
to the great loss which Astronomical Science had sustained in 
the untimely death of the late Mr. Thomas Cooke, F.E.ik.S., 
our late Honorarv Member and fellow-citizen. 
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