REPORT OF THE GOUNCIE 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
February 13TH, 1905. 
In presenting the Annual Report for the year 1904. the 
Council feels that it has every reason to congratulate the 
members upon another successful year's work. 
The Lectures have been maintained at a high standard, and 
the attendance has been consistently good : a list of the 
Lectures will be found at page 9. 
The Report for the year 1903 closed with a statement that 
the question of an invitation to the British Association to 
visit York at an early date had been before the Council, and 
that it was hoped that some further steps might be taken 
shortly. This hope has been realised. A deputation from 
the Philosophical Society waited upon the York Corporation 
on the 6th of June, the matter was most favourably enter¬ 
tained by the Lord Mayor and Council, and as a result an 
invitation was sent both by the City Council and your Society, 
that the meeting of the British Association for the year 1906 
should be held at York. This was further emphasised by a 
joint deputation attending at the Cambridge Meeting of the 
British Association in August last, and the invitation was 
cordially accepted. 
There is a peculiar fitness in the meeting being held at York 
in 1906. The British Association was founded in our ancient 
city in 1831, by the then representatives of your Society. 
