REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YOEKSHTRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
February 4th, 187j 
The Council in presenting their report of the Society’s affairs 
for the year 1878, have much pleasure in congratulating the 
Members on its continued usefulness and prosjDerity. 
The actual income for the past year has been one of the 
largest ever recorded in the annals of the Society, and although 
the expenditure has been exceptional in respect of the various 
sums spent in improvements and in extending the space in the 
Museum for the recently acquired Geological collection, as well 
as in the purchase of Antiquities, yet when the facts are more 
particularly stated, as will appear fn this Report, the members 
will at once perceive that the debit side of the Treasm’er’s 
balance sheet discloses an expenditure absolutely necessary for 
the welfare of the Society. 
The total income for the past year amounts to £1450 6s. 3d. 
The two principal sources of income are the subscriptions and 
the money received at the Gate. The former has amounted to 
£991 Is. Od., being a higher sum than has ever been received 
from this source in any previous year; whilst the admission 
money received from strangers at the Gate has amounted to 
£312 7s. 9d., the largest amount with one exception in the 
experience of the Society. 
On the debit side of the Treasurer’s account it will be found 
that £104 12s. 7d. has been expended in the pmuhase of 
Roman and Saxon Antiquities, chiefly discovered in the various 
excavations which are being made in York and its neighbour¬ 
hood. 
