REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
or THE 
YOEKSHIEE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
Read at the Annual fleeting on 
February 1st, 1S8L 
In presenting their Peport for the year 1880, the Council 
of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society congratulate the mem¬ 
bers on the prosperous state of the Museum in regard to 
finances and science. During the last four years an extraordinary 
expenditure has been incurred, which leaves a considerable sum 
on the debit side of the balance sheet. This the Council, 
following the usual order in these Deports, will now explain, 
and then proceed to report on the various scientific departments 
of the Museum. The Council have everv confidence that when 
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this Peport has been concluded, the members of the 'Society 
will be of an unanimous opinion that its affairs, its honour, and 
its interests have been well cared for by the Executive, who 
now^ render this account. It will be necessary, however, in 
order fully to understand the scope of this Peport, to refer to 
that of the year 1876 and the form intervening years. 
In the year 1876 the Peport presented a balance sheet of 
average receipts and expenditure ; but in the following year, 
1877, a debt of £650 2s. 3d., the balance due on the Lodge 
building account, was taken into the general account. This 
sum formed the nucleus of an increasing debt, which now 
amounts to a considerable sum. The members, however, must 
be reminded that in the four intervening years, from 1876 to 
1880, an extraordinary expenditure was rendered necessary by 
special circumstances, not likely to occur again during the 
lifetime of the present generation, which amounted to the 
