REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
Fehruary 3rd, 1891. 
The Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society have 
now the pleasure to submit to the members their Report for 
the year 1890. 
The Balance Sheet, which will be referred to more in detail 
at the close of the Report by the Treasurer, and which has 
been audited by Mr. Cunninghame of the Yorkshire Insurance 
Company, is highly satisfactory. The Income of the Society 
for the year is upwards of £40 in excess of the Income of the 
previous year. The Expenditure, including the large payment 
of £198 5s. 2d. on account of the mortgage debt and interest 
due to the Insurance Company, amounts to £1271 6s. Od., 
leaving a balance in the Treasurer’s hands of £30 ITs. 6d.; 
a more favorable result than has been shewn on any Balance 
Sheet presented to this Society for many years past. The 
items of Receipt and Expenditure will be more particularly 
referred to by the Treasurer before the close of the Meeting. 
The Report will now follow the usual course and present in 
detail the state of the various Scientific Departments of the 
Society. 
Geology. —The additions made in this department during 
the past year have not been either numerous or important. 
The most noteworthy are a skull of a Steneosaur from the 
Lias of Whitby, presented by the Honorary Curator, and a 
small collection of plants from the Coal Measures of the 
Barnsley District, presented by the Trustees of the Cawthorne 
Museum through the Rev. C. T. Pratt. But even with this 
addition, our series of Yorkshire Coal Fossils is very imperfect. 
