COUNCIL FOR 1839. 
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will shew the present state of the Society’s Finances. The 
Council invite attention to these documents, and to the 
statement which has been made reo:ardin2C the need of new 
cases for the Geological Collection, and a new appropriation 
of the upper rooms of the Museum —in order that the Mem¬ 
bers may clearly understand the position in which the Society 
is placed. This position, though not such as to create 
anxiety, certainly demands a severe and detailed economy, 
the retrenchment of all expenditure except what is really 
unavoidable, and the postponement of even useful and much 
desired improvements till a more favourable occasion. 
It would be possible, at a very moderate expense, to 
augment the interest of the grounds and to improve the 
pictorial effect of the beautiful West Front of St. Mary’s 
Abbey, by slightly altering the position of the boundary 
wall toward Marygate; but the Council have been careful 
to leave their successors entirely free from every pledge re- 
garding future operations which involve expense. They do 
not venture to recommend the enlargement of the Pleasure 
Ground so as to include the Hospitium, and having no ade¬ 
quate funds at their disposal for even the reparation of this 
edifice, they leave entirely to the Meeting to determine 
whether any further effort shall be made to save the whole 
or any part thereof from inevitable decay, and thus render 
a building of historical and antiquarian interest, of some real 
-and definite use to the Society and the Public. 
The Zoological and Geological Collections of the Yorkshire Museum 
were illustrated by Professor Phillips in a Course of Six Lectures in 
the Winter of 1839 and 1840, which were largely attended. It is con¬ 
fidently expected that the Antiquarian treasures of the Institution will 
shortly become, in a similar manner, the basis of a Series of Discourses 
by the Curator, The Rev. C. Wellbeloved. 
