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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The unavoidably increased ordinary expenditure conse¬ 
quent upon an extension of the grounds, has demanded the 
strictest economy in the management of the Society’s finances. 
The Council have therefore steadily refused to sanction any 
expenditure for the increase of its collections, beyond that 
for which it was already pledged; preferring to direct atten¬ 
tion to the effective arrangement and display of the various 
departments of the Museum, so as to enable the Members and 
Visitors to draw from them the full amount of pleasure and in¬ 
struction which they are calculated to afford. 
The receipts have thus fully equalled the current expenditure 
of the Society, though they have fallen very far short of the 
extraordinary expenses of the year. This deficiency was, how¬ 
ever, in a great measure anticipated in the report of the Council 
to the last Annual Meeting, with the exception of the outlay in 
the purchase of Mr. Cayley’s house. 
This excess of expenditure has been met by the loan of £1000 
from the Yorkshire Insurance Company, before alluded to, and 
by the bankers having allowed the Society to overdraw its 
account during the year to the extent of about £700. 
Though the debt of the Society is thus increased, the Council 
see no reason to be discouraged. They anticipate that the 
growing taste for Natural History and Antiquities within the 
county will attract Members to a Society established with a 
view of encouraging such pursuits, and which has not permitted 
the quarter of a century of its existence to pass away without 
leaving some durable monuments of its utility. 
