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REPORT OF THE 
Much inconvenience has at times been experienced by the Council 
from not having the power to admit persons during their temporary 
residence in the City, to the Garden and Museum, on the payment 
of a reasonable sum for the privilege thus granted. The Council 
have therefore agreed to submit a resolution to the meeting, to 
authorize them to admit such residents as temporary subscribers. 
The Horticultural Fete was held on the 26th of August, on which 
occasion the display of Fruit and Flowers was superior to that of anv 
former exhibition. 
The Council have deemed it expedient to add to the Gardens the 
ground lying immediately below the Observatory; and they hope that 
thus a suitable situation may be found for a scientific arrangement 
of Plants, which has long been wanted. 
In the Geological department, the Collections have been increased 
by a few purchases, and some interesting donations; but the attention 
of the Council has been called by Professor Phillips, to the advantage 
which would arise from enlarging this part of the Museum, by the 
addition of one complete series of all the species of Invertebral 
Fossil remains, yet discovered in Yorkshire. For the purpose of 
this new arrangement, the long table-case in which the Minerals 
have recently been placed, has been surmounted by stages under 
glass. To furnish any great proportion of the large number of 
select specimens proper for the systematic arrangement of the In¬ 
vertebral Fossils, the present Collections are inadequate, as they 
contain but few choice duplicates; but by application to several 
friends of the Society, resident on the coast, and by purchases to a 
moderate extent, upon a regular plan, the Council hope to make 
good progress in this undertaking, previous to the meeting of the 
British Association. 
The Collection of Minerals has been entirely re-arranged in the 
new cases in the Geological Room, and enriched *by a splendid 
donation from the late Dr. Beckwith, including not only many 
specimens not previously possessed by the Society, but also a Col¬ 
lection of Gems, of such intrinsic value, as has seldom been received 
at one time by any similar public Institution. 
To the Collection of Vertebrated Animals, fifty-three birds from 
Trinidad, in beautiful condition, have been added by Wm. Hatfeild, 
Esq.; and Mr. James Backhouse has presented several Lizards and 
