REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
TO THE 
Annual JSljetittg. 
A prominent place has been occupied in the Reports of the 
Council for the last two years, by the progress of the improve¬ 
ments consequent on the Society’s acquisition of the remains of 
St. Leonard’s Hospital. It was stated in the last Report that 
owing to the undetermined state of the plans of the City 
Council with regard to the adjoining streets, these improvements 
had not been completed. During the past year, however, the 
boundary and levels having been decided upon, and the unsightly 
buildings which encumbered the ruins of St. Leonard’s Hospital 
cleared away, a substantial iron fence and gate have been 
erected along the line of Museum Street, which, by the liberality 
of the Corporation, now forms the boundary of the Society’s 
grounds. 
This change of boundary involved the necessity of the removal 
of the Porter’s Lodge; and the Council were anxiously em¬ 
ployed in consulting with the Architect on the difficult question 
of the site and design of a new lodge, when the adjoining 
freehold house, the property of E. S. Cayley, Esq., and lately 
tenanted by Miss Yorke, was offered for sale. It had long been 
the opinion of several members and zealous friends of the 
Society, that should an opportunity occur of purchasing this 
house, it ought not to he lost, from a conviction of the import¬ 
ance of its possession to the Society, both with reference to 
present convenience and future possible improvements. After 
much negociation, the Council resolved to effect the purchase. 
