YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
TO THE 
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, ON THE 4th OF FEBRUARY, 1845. 
The proceedings which the Council, in presenting their 
Report for the past year, are called upon to record, have in 
great measure taken their shape and colour from an event in 
which this Society could not but feel the liveliest interest; 
namely, the reception in York of the British Association for 
the Advancement of Science. 
A strong and general desire was entertained amongst us, 
that a body which, since it was called into existence within 
the walls of our Museum, has enrolled in its list of Members 
almost every name of eminence in the United Kingdom, in 
every department of science, should be received on its return 
hither with a becoming welcome ; and that our distinguished 
visitors, domestic and foreign, in this stage of the Associ- 
ation*’s honourable and useful course, should experience no lack 
of any service which it was in the power of the Society to 
render. 
The Council rejoice in considering themselves entitled to 
add that the desire thus cordially felt, has been entirely ful¬ 
filled. The Second Meeting of the British Association at York 
is allowed to have been not less satisfactory as regards the suc¬ 
cess of the arrangements made for its reception, than in rela¬ 
tion to the scientific interest which attended its proceedings. 
This gratifying result is to be attributed, in the first place, to 
