REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
yOEKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
February 2nd, 1875. 
Tlie Balance Sheet of income and expenditure to be pro¬ 
duced by the Treasurer will disclose a satisfactory account of the 
Society’s finances. The income of the Society has amounted 
during the past year to £1,335 5s. 9d., and the expenditure to 
£1,281 14s. 5d., leaving a Balance in the hands of the Treasirrer 
of £53 11s. 4d. The Council are glad to report that there 
appears to be no diminution in the popularity of the Society’s 
Museum. The receipts taken at the gates amount to the sum 
of £295 7s. 6d., being the largest amount received during any 
one year since 1866, the year in which the Fine Art Exhibition 
was holden in York. There are few items of expenditiu’e which 
call for remark. £43 10s. have been paid for the new cases 
required for the Yorkshire Greological room; £17 19s. 3d. for 
the improvement of the cases in which the Society’s valuable 
collection of Shells are displayed; and a further sum of 
£36 7s. 9d. has been expended in the purchase of specimens 
of Eoman antiquities, a sum small in amount when compared 
with the value of the objects secured for the Society’s Museum. 
For some months previous to April last the Council have had 
under their consideration at various times a scheme for the im¬ 
provement of the entrance to the Museum opposite Lendal. It 
was considered that the entrance in Museum-street was not in 
unison with the great improvements which had taken place in 
this part of the city during the past few years, and many mem- 
