THE COUNCIL. 
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any considerable portion of the annual funds be reserved for 
the diminution of the debt. It must also be remembered 
that some of our cases are filled by specimens which are not, 
but ought to be, the property of the Society, and that a certain 
annual charge or a considerable present advance will be re¬ 
quired for the purchase of them. 
But these requirements have been foreseen, and contem¬ 
plated without alarm, and encouraged by the assistance re¬ 
ceived this year from the President and Miss Currer—by the 
proceeds from the tickets of admission—by the advantageous 
purchase from the Crown,—and above all, by the conscious¬ 
ness that greater difficulties than these have been overcome 
when the Society was less prepared to meet them than now it 
is, the Council hopes that this Meeting will be of opinion 
that the affairs of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, though 
demanding every proper attention to economy, should still 
be conducted with that liberal regard to the dignity of the 
Institution and the interests of natural science, which offers 
the greatest attraction to new Members, and lays the surest 
claim to the patronage of the community. 
CTENACANTHUS TENUISTRIATUS, 
Exom. the Mountain Limestone of Shropshire, 
Presented hj the Rev. T. Lewis. 
