REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YOEKSHIEE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
February 1st, 1876. 
The Council cannot remember any previous occasion on 
which there has been better ground for congratulation to the 
Members of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, than on the 
presentation of the Fifty-second Annual Eeport, for although 
considerable expense has been incurred in the purchase of 
specimens, and in providing cases for their display in two of 
the principal departments of the Museum, the Treasurer’s 
Accounts for the year disclose a larger balance to the credit 
of the Society than has appeared for many years past. 
The Council propose to follow the usual order in dealing 
with the various departments of the Museum. Attention will 
be first drawn to the finances of the Society, and the scientific 
departments will then be treated of separately. The gross 
income of the Society for the past year has amounted to the 
sum of £1,522 Os. lOd., the expenditure to £1,364 6s. 7d., 
leaving a balance in the treasurer’s hands on the income of 
the year of £157 14s. 3d. The income of the Society is larger 
than that of the previous year by the sum of £186 14s. Id. 
The special items of expenditure consist of the following 
sums :—£50 12s. lOd. has been paid for new cases, chiefiy for 
the Yorkshire Greological Eoom. The Honorary Curator of 
Geology having represented to the Council that this important 
department of the Museum was much cramped for want of 
space, and that many series of specimens of the utmost value 
