REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
Feb. 7, I860. 
In presenting the Members of the Yorkshire Philosophical 
Society with their Report for the year 1859, the Council regret 
that the expenditure of the year has been so heavy as almost 
to exhaust the balance in the Treasurer’s hands from the year 
1858. They have, nevertheless, the satisfaction to observe that 
the apparent diminution of the resources of the Society is not 
due to any falling off in its prosperity, but simply to an extra¬ 
ordinary expenditure. At the same time the Council con¬ 
fidently believe, that, when the members are made acquainted 
with the objects for which this expense has been incurred, they 
will agree that a sound discretion has been exercised in the 
outlay, and that, by increasing the attractiveness of the Museum, 
it will ultimately tend to the advantage of the Society. The 
principal portion of this extraordinary expenditure consists of 
the sum of £200, paid to Mr. Wm. Bean, of Scarbro’, for 
one third part of his extensive Collection of Fossils, brought 
together by the unceasing activity of nearly forty years. In 
the month of July last the Council were informed that this 
valuable collection, consisting to a great extent of Fossils from 
the strata of the Yorkshire Coast, and including numerous 
specimens described by Professor Phillips, was offered for sale 
