YOKKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
TO THE 
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, ON THE 6th OF FEBRUARY, 1844. 
The Council, acting under the direction of the last Annual 
Meeting, repeated the invitation from the Yorkshire Philosophical 
Society to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 
when assembled at Cork, to hold its next Meeting in this City; and 
they have great pleasure in announcing that the invitation was 
accepted, and that the Society will, in September next, again 
have the honour of witnessing, within the City of York, the 
assembling of that learned body. This event, so earnestly desired 
by the Council, must necessarily have a most beneficial influence 
on this Society, by stimulating its members to renewed exertion, 
and thus raising it to a still more elevated position in the scale of 
science and utility. 
To render the Museum as attractive as possible, and interesting 
to the numerous scientific visitors who may be expected to attend 
the meeting, the Council have considered it highly important to 
complete, as far as possible, the arrangement of the different 
Collections previous to the month of September. For this purpose, 
several alterations in the interior of the Museum have become 
necessary, more particularly the re-opening the communication 
between the Library and the late Mineralogical Room, and the 
completing the side cases in that Room, for the reception of the 
splendid Collection of Comparative Osteology, which is at present 
so imperfectly exhibited. It has also been determined to place 
drawers underneath the new centre cases in the Geological Room, 
for the arrangement of the Foreign and British Rock Specimens, 
which will thus be easily referred to; and to fit up the spare Room 
