REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
February, 1913. 
T HE Year 1912 will stand out in the History of our Society 
as one of the most important since its foundation. On 
the 6th of June, 1912, the magnificent new Lecture Theatre, 
so generously erected by the influence of our President, Dr. 
Tempest Anderson, and designed by Mr. Ridsdale Tate, was 
formally opened by Professor Bonny, F.R.S., D. Sc., Ex- 
President of the British Association. The Lecture Theatre, 
which has seating accommodation for 550, was filled to over¬ 
flowing, and after the ceremony was completed a Portrait of 
our President by William Orpen, A.R.A., together with an 
Illuminated Address, designed and illustrated by Mr. Ridsdale 
Tate, was gracefully presented to Dr. Tempest Anderson by 
Mrs. Edwin Gray, on behalf of the subscribers, as a united 
public expression of the Society’s grateful appreciation of his 
many acts of generosity, and of the invaluable and devoted 
services which he had so ungrudgingly given to the Society 
over a long course of years. In addition to the New Lecture 
Theatre, the old Theatre has been converted into a handsome 
reception room with .a Gallery round three sides of it in which 
the Society’s collections of Pottery and Glass are admirably 
exhibited. There has also been provided, under the East end 
of the New Theatre, a work room 39 ft. by 26, for Students, 
with a well lighted Bench, Library of works of reference, 
collections of type specimens for Geological study, and many 
