REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
February ]st, 1887. 
Your Council regret that they have to report that the 
depression, Agricultural and Commercial, which at present 
exists in this country, has to a considerable extent diminished 
the income of the Society as compared with that of last year. 
The amount received for Subscriptions, Admission Fees, and 
for Members’ keys, for the past year, amounts to £746. 5s. Od., 
as compared with £800. 10s. Od., the amount derived from 
similar sources for the previous year, showing a decrease of 
£54. 5s. Od. on these items alone. There is also a decrease of 
£38. 16s. Od. in the amount received at the gate as compared 
with similar receipts for the year 1885. 
Referring to the disbursement side of the account, it may he 
observed that your Council have been called upon to repair the 
Archway in St. Leonard’s Place, immediately in front of the 
School for the Blind, the cost of the repairs amounted to the 
sum of £20, and the result of the balance sheet now submitted 
is that a balance of £79. 11s. Od. remains due to the Treasurer. 
Your Council are fully aware that it is desirable that this 
debt should not be increased, and a system of economy and 
retrenchment will be commenced, by which it is hoped that the 
debt will be extinguished in the course of the present year. 
Under these circumstances, it will be the duty of the Council 
during the present year not to sanction any expenditure except, 
unless under very special circumstances in the purchase of 
specimens, until more prosperous times. Further details as to 
the financial position of the affairs of the Society will be given 
when the Balance Sheet of the Treasurer is read. 
In other respects your Council report that the Museum and 
its varied collections, were never in a more efficient state, and 
