REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
Feb. 1851. 
The period has now arrived, when, in the annual course of 
events, it becomes the duty of the Council to report, to this 
Meeting, the proceedings of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society 
during the year 1850. 
The Council are glad to state that, upon a review of the past 
year, the Society is still advancing in its career of usefulness, 
and that while there will he occasion to notice the attainment 
of much that was desirable in several departments of the 
Institution, some important improvements in the grounds have 
been completed, and the Council have the satisfaction of leaving 
the finances of the Society in a better state than at the com¬ 
mencement of the past year. It is gratifying to the Council to 
be able to report additions to the Collections of Natural History 
and Antiquities by the process of donation, to which the Society 
has been accustomed for more than a quarter of century to 
look, with well grounded confidence, as the principal means of 
improving its Museum. Of these additions several deserve 
especial notice. From Thos. S. Rudd, Esq., of Redcar, 
has been received the whole of the British Insects, with the 
exception of the Lepidoptera, which were collected by his 
brother, the late Rev. G. T. Rudd, M. A., well known as one 
of the leading British Entomologists. This extensive collection 
consists chiefly of Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera, of 
which three orders it contains several thousand specimens. 
