COUNCIL FOR 1852 . 
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Stamp Brooksbank, Esq., it has been presented to the Museum 
of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 
The Descriptive Account of the Antiquities in the grounds 
of the Museum has been recently completed and published by 
the learned Curator (Mr. Wellbeloved), and has been welcomed 
not only by Members of the Society but by numerous visitors, 
in a manner indicating a due appreciation of its interesting 
and valuable details. 
The Council cannot leave this subject without expressing 
their deep sense of the obligation the Society is under, for the 
labour and research bestowed upon this work; which so greatly 
enhances the interest and value of the Antiquarian objects in 
the Society’s possession, and which, from the liberality of the 
Author in kindly placing the profit arising from the sale of the 
work at the disposal of the Council, promises, in a pecuniary 
point of view, to be a donation to the Society of much import¬ 
ance. 
A further contribution to the Natural History and Antiquities 
of Yorkshire has proceeded from the pen of Professor Phillips, 
who has added to his well-known Geological works, an illus¬ 
trated volume of descriptions, entitled “ The Divers, Moun¬ 
tains, and Sea Coast of Yorkshire.” The objects contemplated 
by the author of this volume are exactly those which the 
Society labours to advance, and the Council report with pleasure 
that several communications having the same tendency, which 
have been read to the Monthly Meetings, are now under the 
consideration of a Committtee, for publication in the Transac¬ 
tions of the Society. 
The Society has received a very valuable Collection of Plants 
from Messrs. Standish and Noble, during the past year, besides 
some minor donations from other parties. 
The work of the Observatory has been continued, and some 
part of the plans sanctioned by the Council for increasing its 
utility has been performed. There is, however, as yet no 
registration of Wind, and some further steps are requisite to 
complete the desired daily information on the changes of tem¬ 
perature and moisture. 
