REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
February 1st, 1897. 
This Report will, as in previous years, deal with the financial 
and general condition and prospects of the Society, and will 
then embody the reports of the Curators of the various depart¬ 
ments connected with the Museum. 
The income ot the Society for the past year has been £1,171 
5s. 2d., and the outgoings £1,257 3s. Id., leaving an excess of 
expenditure over income of £85 17s. lid. As, however, the 
balance in the hands of the Treasurer at the end of 1895 was 
£157 8s. 7d., there is still the sum of £71 10s. 8d. in hand. 
The Council does not by any means recommend that expendi¬ 
ture should exceed income, but considers it not unadvisable 
that improvements of a substantial and permanent nature 
should be made in times of comparative prosperity, and it is 
to improvements of this nature that a large part of the extra 
expenditure this year is due. It is also to be noted that the 
transfer of the Abbey Walls to the Corporation, which has 
now been completed, has involved the surrender of the rent of 
the Bootham and Marygate Towers on the part of the Society, 
and our receipts have thus suffered a corresponding diminution. 
In consequence of an alteration of rule made by a Special 
General Meeting, held October 5th, the time of the Monthly 
General Meetings has been altered to 5 p.m. of the same day 
on which the Council meetings are held, and efforts have been 
made to secure the reading of a Paper on some subject of 
scientific interest at each meeting. So far, the experiment has 
been completely successful; the meetings since the introduction 
of the new rule have been very animated and remarkably well 
attended. 
