REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR I904 
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Its Jubilee was celebrated at one of its most successful meetings 
here in 1881, and its 75th Anniversary falls in the year 1906. 
Local Secretaries and Treasurer have already been appointed, 
and a Committee is now engaged in the preparation of a 
Guide Book for use at the meeting. Your Council trusts that 
every member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society will do 
his utmost to render the meeting an unqualified success. It 
may be mentioned that during the past year a scheme was 
introduced by the Educational Authority for the city for con¬ 
verting the Exhibition Buildings into a Secondary School, 
and your Council, recognising that such a conversion was not 
only a direct contravention of the terms of the lease by your 
Society, but would also deprive the city of its most spacious 
and useful hall, were compelled to point this out to the 
Educational Authority, and your Council considers that your 
Society may congratulate itself upon the result. The scheme 
was withdrawn. It is not too much to say that without the 
large hall of the Exhibition it would hardly have been possible 
to hold the British Association Meeting in the city. 
Turning to the internal affairs of your Society, towards the 
close of last year, Mr. H. M. Platnauer, who, since the year 
1883, ^ as filled the position of Keeper of the Museum, intimated 
to the Council that he wished to resign that position, and that 
his future connection with your Society should be of an 
honorary character. 
Your Council cannot too highly appreciate the valuable 
services which have been rendered by Mr. Platnauer during 
the long period he has been so closely connected with your 
Society, t hey rejoice that this connection will not, by his 
resignation, be severed, but that he is still prepared to join in 
the deliberations of your Council and to assist his successor, 
Mr. Oxley Grabham, in his duties as Keeper of the Museum. 
Your Council have much pleasure in recommending that in 
recognition of his past services, Mr. Platnauer should be 
elected to fill a vacancy in the office of Vice-President of your 
Society. 
In appointing Mr. Oxley Grabham, your Council have 
secured a well known Naturalist, and it is hoped that his 
special knowledge of Zoology and Ornithology will prove of 
