COUNCIL FOR 1855. 
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accordingly delivered four evening lectures in successive weeks 
in the months of October and November. The numerous 
attendance, which continued undiminished to the close, attested 
the interest excited by the subject and the ability and success 
with which it was treated by the Lecturer. The Museum was 
lighted up for the inspection of the audience at the close of 
each lecture, and one evening was specially devoted by the 
Curators of the several departments of Natural History to the 
illustration of the collections under their charge. The Council 
look forward with pleasure to the frequent employment of the 
beautiful theatre of the Museum, for the purpose of scientific 
instruction. Mr. Procter has commenced a course of Four 
Lectures on Water, the Atmosphere and their constituents, with 
illustrative experiments ; other members have promised their 
assistance, and Mr. Charlesworth is prepared to proceed at the 
direction of the Council with further lectures in his own branch 
of science. 
The Treasurer’s Report shews an excess of £52. 18s. in this 
year’s expenditure above the receipts, which is to be added to 
the sum of £56 11s. lid. due to the Treasurer in January, 1855. 
The receipts at the gate, which have varied in the course of the 
last ten years between £148 and £212 (not including the 
year of the Agricultural Meeting)^ amount this year to £160. 
The receipts from the swimming bath, from the sale of the 
descriptive account of the Antiquities and the hire of the tent, 
exhibit an increase compared with last year. The general 
financial result would have been much more favourable, but for 
the heavy items of the cost of the Second Part of the Proceed¬ 
ings, the repairs and painting of the Museum and Cottages in 
Marygate, and the repairs of the House occupied by Major 
Mein, amounting together to upwards of £170. It must also 
be observed that the entrance fee being now spread over three 
years, the Society will not have derived, till 1857, the whole 
benefit of the admissions which have taken place in 1855. 
Although the balance due to the Treasurer, therefore, is large, 
the Council hope that they shall be able to restore the 
equilibrium of receipts and expenditure, without neglecting 
any of the great objects for the promotion of which the York¬ 
shire Philosophical Society was established. 
