REPORT. 
The Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society beg 
leave to lay before the Annual Meeting, an abstract of the 
Society’s receipts and expenditure for the year 1824, together 
with a detailed account of the donations which have been 
made, during that period, to the Library, and the various 
departments of the Museum. 
It will be found that a considerable portion of the funds of 
the Society, has been employed in providing depositories 
for the presents made to it in the course of the last twelve- 
month, the number of which has been even greater than in the 
preceding year. In 1823, the donations to the geological and 
mineralogical cabinets were about two thousand ; in 1824, 
the donations to the Geological collection have amounted to 
nearly two thousand five hundred, independent of more 
than two hundred specimens added to the Mineralogical 
cases. The Council cannot but congratulate the Meeting 
upon so satisfactory a proof of the great and increasing zeal 
with which the Institution is supported, and the spirit of 
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