REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
February ist, 1898. 
The past year has not been marked by any great changes 
or striking events, as far as the internal history of the Society 
is concerned. The usual work has proceeded steadily ; a 
Lecture list of high average excellence has attracted large 
audiences—larger indeed, in some cases, than could be 
comfortably seated in our lecture theatre—and has given much 
satisfaction ; the plan of holding the monthly meetings of the 
Society late in the afternoon and having a paper of general 
interest read at each has been pursued throughout the year 
with marked success. The work done in various departments 
of the Museum will be dealt with in the special reports which 
follow ; it will be sufficient here to say generally that all of 
them exhibit healthy vitality. 
Turning to the financial condition of the Society, the 
prospect is an encouraging one. The income of the Society 
from ordinary sources for the year was £1,168 18s. 8d. This 
is £2 6s. 6d. less than last year’s income, but the diminution 
is due partly to a falling off in the gate-money—a falling off 
necessarily connected with the Jubilee rejoicings of the year— 
and partly to the fact that the Society no longer derives any 
rent from the Bootham and Marygate towers. The expenditure 
of the Society was £1,141 14s. 5d., leaving an excess of income 
over expenditure of £27 is. 3d. This added to the £71 10s. 
8d. in the hands of the Treasurer at the end of 1896 leaves the 
sum of £98 ns. nd. in hand. 
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