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REPORT OE THE 
Lodge, of which house and premises the Society, through the 
kind liberality of Professor Phillips, the late Lessee, are now 
the landlords. 
The following are the circumstances under which this Lease 
has reverted to the Society. 
In 1839, Professor Phillips, then the Keeper of the Society’s 
Museum, obtained a Lease for life from the Society, of an old 
Building, together with a piece of land contiguous to the 
entrance to the Gardens of the Museum, in Marygate, at a 
ground rent of £15 a year. The Professor, by a large outlay, 
converted the Building into a residence House, now and for 
some time past known as St. Mary’s Lodge, and which remained 
in his occupation until his removal to Oxford. 
In the latter part of 1870, the following ofPer was kindly 
forwarded to the Council by Professor Phillips :—- 
I propose to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society to sur- 
‘‘ render my Lease of St. Mary’s Lodge, from Michaelmas, 
1870, on condition that the Society pay to me annually £15, 
and further fund annually such sum as may accrue to the 
Society by this arrangement beyond the £15 now paid by 
“ me, and the £15 as above to be paid to me, for the purpose 
of founding a piuchase fund for the piuchase of specimens to 
be added to the Geological and Antiquarian Departments of 
“ the Museum.” 
The Council have accepted this ofPer, and are now in com¬ 
munication with Professor Phillips, on the best means of 
carrying out his scheme. 
The Lodge was let at Lady-Day last, to Mr. Smithson, at an 
annual rent of £55, and the Council propose to set aside a sum 
of £25 a year, in accordance with the Professor’s wish. 
It is not the least gratifying fact which the Council have to 
record that one so distinguished in the annals of science as 
Professor Phillips, though no longer resident amongst us, 
should still bear in remembrance a Society which formerly 
received from him so many benefits and so great honour diuing 
the time he was officially connected with it. 
At the request of several influential citizens of York, the 
Council in the Autumn of last year granted permission to the 
