REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
ioth February, 1908. 
A FTER the exceptional events of 1906 arising from the visit 
of the British Association, the year 1907 has seemed one 
of comparative quiet in the annals of our Society, but though 
devoid of excitement it has been by no means a year of idleness. 
Much attention has, as usual been devoted to the preservation 
of the Ruins in the Museum Gardens. The ivy has been 
removed from the Roman Wall connecting the Multangular 
Tower and St. Leonard’s Hospital. Two of the windows in 
the Hospital have been glazed with a view to stop the action 
of sand scour, and further experiments with lime-wash have 
been carried out in the Ambulatory in the hopes of preserving 
the stone pillars and groined roof from the disintegrating 
action of the atmosphere and the acids and smoke inseparable 
from the busy life of the city. This action will be supplemented 
during the coming year by experiments with barium hydrate. 
The attention of your Council was called by Mr. Edward S. 
Prior, of Chichester, to the collections of 12th and 13th century 
sculpture in the lower room of the Hospitium, which he pro¬ 
nounced to be unrivalled in England, but which for lack of 
space are very inadequately exhibited in the dim light of the 
Hospitium. During the last year a Sub-Committee has been 
appointed to consider how these treasures can be re-arranged 
and grouped so as to show the connection of the fragments 
and to exhibit in a more satisfactory manner these specimens 
