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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR igil. 
Numismatics. —The Hon. Curator reports that the collec¬ 
tions are in good order, though but few additions have been 
made during the past year. 
The Observatory. -- This remains in good repair and 
working order, as regards the instruments themselves, but it 
should be pointed out that the almost constant presence of a 
lighted stove in the winter time is quite inconsistent with the 
use of the equatorial telescope for observations. Equality of 
temperature between the air inside the observatory and the 
air outside is absolutely essential if a telescope is to be used 
at all. A fire once a week, on Sundays for instance, should 
be enough for keeping the building dry and aired. 
Ornithology.— The collections are in good order, and 
additions are continually being made to the mounted specimens, 
skins and eggs, and to the aviaries in the gardens. 
Zoology. —The collection of Yorkshire mammals is slowly 
but surely increasing, and several additions have been added 
to the skin cabinet. The American Grey Squirrels, presented 
by Mr. St. Quintin over a year ago, are still at large in the 
Gardens and are a source of great interest to our members and 
visitors. 
Field Naturalists’ Section. —Your Committee have to 
report a slight improvement in the interest taken in the work 
of this section, the meetings have been fairly well attended, 
and some enthusiasm has been shown in the discussions which 
have followed several of the Lectures and Papers. During the 
past summer a number of held excursions were held, 22 mem¬ 
bers attended the outing to Moreby and Stillingfleet, 16 the 
one to Aldby Park-, and 16 went to Lutton Woods. 
The Winter Session was opened by a lecture on “ The 
Badger,' by Mr. C. F. Proctor, this being followed by a 
lantern lecture by Mr. Oxley Grabham, M.A., on “ British 
Freshwater Fishes.” The most largely attended lecture was 
that held at the house of the President, Dr. Tempest Ander¬ 
son, F.G.S., when that gentleman gave as his presidental 
