4 
REPORT. 
of Lectures on the sciences of Geology * and Chemistry t 
have been delivered on the Society’s account, and 
a third on Zoology^ under its patronage, which have 
been attended in a manner corresponding with the anticipa¬ 
tions expressed in the last Report, and displaying that 
eagerness for scientific information which had been hoped 
for from the public, and which it is one of the principal 
objects of the Society to gratify and encourage.|| In the 
arrangements for these Lectures very considerable embarrass¬ 
ment was experienced, from the want of rooms adapted to 
the purpose of their delivery ; but, even under this dis¬ 
advantage, the profit derived from them, amounting to about 
Forty Pounds, has been sufficient to show that, if a proper 
Lecture Room should be built, the Lectures might reasonably 
be expected to pay the interest of the money laid out upon 
the building. The Council however submit to the Society, 
that it would be an object worthy of the county of York, to 
lend to an institution of this nature, a support which might 
render such a speculation unnecessary. They have some 
reason to believe, that a site for a Philosophical Establish¬ 
ment may be obtained on terms of the most liberal kind ; 
a subscription of Three Thousand Pounds would be sufficient 
to raise a building that would comprise both an adequate 
Lecture Room and an extended Museum; and the 
Society has already proved, during the two years which 
it has existed, how capable it is of storing such a building 
* By Mr. W. Smith, t By Messrs. West and George. $ By Dr. Harwood, F.L.S, 
P Gratuitous admission to the Chemical course, was given by the Council to 
several ingenious Artisans and Mechanics, who had expressed a wish to benefit by 
these Lectures. 
